Chapter 380: Murder (2/2)

Watching the man from far away, Aurus then used his mastery over the element of Wind to slowly create a breeze in front of the man, blowing away some of the wooden rods the man was carrying on his shoulders.

Seeing that a few wooden rods he was carrying had flown away out of his grasp, the arrogant man could not help but mutter a curse as he chased after the rods that were being carried by the sudden breeze that blew at him. While chasing after the rods, the man could not help but wonder why such a strong breeze would blow throughout the town at this time, remembering that the weather as of late did not dictate any storms or anything like that.

Nevertheless, he continued to chase after the rods until eventually, the rods slowly rolled along the ground, prompting the arrogant man to curse out, ”Damned rods. Why do they have to be so light for them to be carried away by the wind?”

As he muttered this to himself while slowly picking up the wooden rods that had finally stopped flying away from him, he soon noticed that he was inside one of the many alleys scattered throughout this town. With that in mind, he could not help but mutter to himself, ”Well, that's weird. How could the rods be blown away to one of the alleys?”

”Unless…” Unfortunately, just as the arrogant man had realized what was going on, the sound of something piercing through flesh softly resounded throughout the alley, with the arrogant man as to what was going on.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Though, it did not take long for the man to find out what was actually happening as he soon noticed drops of blood appearing near his feet. With that, he let go of one side of the rods he was carrying as he soon felt a warm liquid trickling down his face.

As he touched it with his free hand to see what this warm liquid was, he noticed that his free hand was now covered in red. It was at that very moment that he realized what was going on, instantly fearing for what was about to happen next.

Unfortunately for him, it was around this moment that the vitality in his body had slowly withered away as he fell to the ground with a thud. As his blood gradually coated the wooden rods scattered around his body, a jade-like figure appeared in front of the man's corpse, the aura surrounding the figure being that of euphoria.

A few seconds later, this jade-like figure was soon surrounded by a large mass of green energy particles, far greater than the mass the jade-like figure had ever seen before. In one go, these green energy particles were soon absorbed by the jade-like figure's body as the being soon muttered to itself, ”To think that one human would allow my understanding of the Epiphany of the Tempest to instantly jump up to Level 13…”

”I think it wouldn't hurt to bring justice to a few more people…”

”…right?”

…

While that was happening, one of the townspeople in the town Aurus entered hastily made his way to one of the spots where most of the people converged. In the middle of this convergence were three people, with the one at the center radiating an aura of solemnity and magnanimousness at the same time.

Swallowing his saliva as he wondered whether it was the right moment to talk about it, the person eventually mustered up his courage as he walked closer to the person at the center, saying, ”Town leader, we have a problem.”

”What is it?” the man, called the town leader, asked in response.

”We've received reports that one of our able-bodied men has been killed in one of the various alleys of our town, with no one being able to find the culprit that did it,” the person explained.

In response to the townsman's words, the town leader went silent for a moment before asking, ”Is that all?”

The townsman shook his head as he continued, ”According to one of the eyewitnesses, the incident only happened around ten minutes ago. And…”

”And what?” The town leader urged the townsman to continue.

”And…that's only the first report we've received.”

”…” Hearing how there were more people killed in town without him knowing, the town leader could not help but become silent as he pondered on what to do next.

Eventually, one of the people by his side looked at him and asked, ”Well, what do you plan on doing next, Sir Argentum?”