Chapter 44: Punishment Committee (3)

Guard Singh, a man in his late thirties with a strong body, stood in front of the head of the Punishment Committee and looked at Jin with a look of disdain and said.

"I was investigating the disappearance of one of the participants in the exam called Zhou Faye, and then by chance, I heard this student talking about seeing Jin burns something in the exam place, so I immediately went there and used the time reflection crystal to find out the truth of what was burned. "

Guard Singh took out the time reflection crystal from his storage ring and activated it, and then placed it on the table in front of the committee head. A magic circle appeared, and immediately after that, an image of what seemed to be a burnt corpse of a woman appeared.

The time reflection crystal was a magical tool that shows an image of something that happened in the past. It must be activated in the same location to know what happened there. It was made specifically to study the hidden ruins. These ruins contained many texts engraved on the stone. The time reflection crystal was the tool that allowed them to explore these stone texts even if they were broken.

Singh used it to prove that Jin burnt a girl's body in the third area.

Jin looked at the image and scratched his head, pretending to remember.

"Ah, you are talking about that one called Faye. I completely forgot that I killed her and burned her body."

Absolute silence filled the place. After Jin's frank confession, there was nothing left to say, while his two friends were shocked.

Jiao Ti Yi smiled and started to speak gloatingly.

"Good, you made it easy for us by your confession."

"Confession? Don't get it wrong, that girl I killed was not a student or a participant in the exam, so you don't have the authority to judge me for killing her."

Jin's words were clear. The academy was only responsible for its students and elders and had nothing to do with strangers. In the end, many die for many reasons outside the academy, most of which are trivial.

At this moment, Lian stood up to ask permission to speak, she realized something important.

"Excuse me, I was in his group with three other girls, and there was no girl named Zhou Faye in our group."

Jin smiled as he looked at Singh sarcastically and said.

"This is because there was no participant with that name in the first place."

The guard stood angry before taking out a record of the participants' names.

"And what about this then, this is the list of participants, and the name of the murdered girl is written inside it."

Days ago, after the killer he had sent disappeared, the guard Singh carefully investigated the case. Upon discovering the case of the corpse, he went crazy. How is it possible for an ordinary student to be able to get rid of a professional killer? The only explanation that came out to his mind is that Jin killed her using a holy weapon, and Jin would probably have known that it was he who sent the killer after him.

Therefore, he faked the participants' records, added Zhou Faye's name, and filed a formal complaint against Jin for murder.

"This is strange because I have another copy of the participants' list, and the girl's name is not mentioned in it."

The sound made everyone turn around to see Li Chui and the blonde elder Zi Yun at the entrance. Zi Yun saluted the Punishment Committee Head with her fist before continuing her words.

"Excuse me, sir, I am here with the president of the academy's permission to investigate the case of attempting to embezzle the academy's funds and obstruct the conduct of the exam. Some tried to prevent the common people from participating in the exam and changed the seals to two stars instead of one."

"What does this have to do with our investigation with one of the students?" Jiao Ti Yi wondered while Zi Yun raised her finger toward the guard Singh who was sweating behind him.

"Tai Jin collected more than a hundred signatures from students to submit a request to the academy to investigate the issue of seals. It seems that the guard behind you knew about it and decided to send a killer after Jin."

Then she continued with a faint smile on her face.

"And when the killer failed to kill Tai Jin, he decided to fake the participants' records, added a fake name, then charged him with a murder case. Of course, he did not know that Jin had previously provided the names of the exam participants to me."

When the guard Singh and his associates made this bold move to embezzle the academy's funds, they had considered getting rid of any complaint that might be submitted before it reached the hands of the top officials of the academy.

Singh's intuition told him that a boy with the character of Jin would cause them problems, so he decided to get rid of him in any possible way. But he didn't expect that Jin was one step ahead of him and turned all this story to his advantage to appear as a hero.

"Nonsense, your words are baseless."

Singh yelled as he vehemently denied the charges, but the look on Zi Yun's face made him realize that she wasn't throwing the charges without evidence, she had obtained some evidence in her hand.

"Your partner has already confessed to his crime, as well as the magicians whom you forced them to raise their prices on the exam day."

Two days ago, Jin handed an envelope to Zi Yun with information about everything that happened on the exam day, warning about what happened with the common people who wanted to participate in the exam.

It was shocking to her, so she had made everything she could to verify what was stated in the information, and in no time, all those who were involved were investigated and arrested.

The guard Singh slowly started to step back, his eyes filled with fear, and before he could make any movement, he was restrained by the old man.

"Take him to jail, and tighten security on him so that we can complete the investigation with him."

Jin's friends finally breathed a sigh of relief. Still, they had a strange feeling telling them that if they continued to stay with the troublemaker Jin, they wouldn't have any peaceful days in the future.

As the two masked guards dragged Singh out, Jiao Ti Yi wondered why the magicians would get involved in such a matter.

"The magicians from the city are involved in the case. What're the benefits they would have gotten from this?"

Zi Yun replied with a strange expression on her face.

"That was the strangest thing about it, they said they remember when Singh asked them to raise prices, but they don't remember why they agreed to it, and when they realized what had happened, it was too late, and they were already part of the conspiracy, so they preferred to remain silent."

Hearing Zi Yun's words, the old man's expression changed to speak nervously, "He used a powerful magical tool to control their minds, make sure to force him to reveal its location."

A tool that could control minds was dangerous and could cause disasters if it fell into the wrong hands, which explains why the old man was nervous.

Jin was carefully listening to everything they said. Their conversation only heightened his suspicion, he had a strong feeling that they had missed something important and that this case was much more than just getting a little coin silver.

"It makes no sense at all. Why didn't he use the tool on me to keep me silent? Why would he embezzle money from the poor people while he has a priceless treasure?"

When Jin finished speaking, he heard a scream piercing the ears, stating that his suspicions were right.

**** AAAA ****

Miserable screams made everyone run outside, only to find the two guards dead on the ground. At the same time, Singh was covered in black lines moving like living snakes and casting an ominous aura.

"He's using the Dark Law. Immediately retreat," the Punishment Committee Head shouted at everyone, warning.

The dark law was an elemental law that was forbidden by the three kingdoms. All laws derive their energy from the spirit form except for the dark laws, whose power comes from its user's life and the ones they killed.

The head of the Punishment Committee stepped forward, releasing a stifling red aura.

Everyone in the academy felt the pressure from his aura. As for Lian, Du Bai, and Li Chui, although his aura was directed at Singh and not at them, they felt their breath become heavy and their bodies sweating and stiffening, Jin was the only one whose expression didn't change and seemed relaxed.

It was normal because, unlike them, it wasn't the first time he had seen a fusion realm warrior.

'I knew that this old man was not an ordinary warrior,' Jin muttered to himself while looking at the head of the Punishment Department.