Chapter 756 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“The city lord of Ilo City, Fish Ilo, was found dead naked in the bedroom of his sixth lady, Sophie Red Moon. The cause of death is…” Leon read the brief report with a frown.

He did not have much impression of Fish Ilo. To him, this person was not very powerful and had very average skills in handling government affairs. In short, there was nothing particularly remarkable worth noting. Leon met him several times at the court banquets of Kingdom of the Blue Moon and had briefly exchanged a few words. As a junior, Fish Ilo had offered him a toast. And that was all.

In fact, Fish was keen on making friends with Leon. Other than being recognized as Garth’s famous blade master, Leon was also considered by many to be a top master of the modern world. Though the Ilo family was quite strong in its own capacity, they would do even better if they could establish ties with him.

The only pity was that Leon was a man of high morals and integrity. He did not fancy people with sticky fingers like Fish. And he showed a special dislike for people with no control over their manly desires and who were always playing around with women. Fish was always involved in absurd relationships, and this was one aspect that seriously conflicted with Leon’s moral values. If these two were to cross paths when Leon was still a prince, Leon would not have hesitated in brandishing his sword to finish off Fish. But now that Leon was getting on in his years, he was more mature and tactful. Or rather, he was not as hot-blooded as before. This was why he could use such a mindset like “even the people of Ilo City are not standing up for themselves, who am I to speak out for them” to dissuade himself from finding trouble with Fish.

Fish was dead, and Leon was generally happy with it. But after reading the report on the situation of Fish’s death, he felt a little confused and worried instead.

The way this man died was simply… a little scary.

From the description provided in the report, he tried to imagine the scene of the event. Even though Leon was powerful and strong, he too, could not help feeling an ache around his loins.

Though Fish was not a good man and deserved to be hacked to death, to think of him dying in such a way… exactly what kind of a dangerous and perverted character did he have to be killed like that.

On the other hand, following the death of Fish, Leon did not put much thought into the subsequent disappearance of the sixth lady of Ilo City, Sophie Red Moon. Maybe she was caught by the murderer, maybe she had secretly escaped by herself, or maybe she was simply swallowed by the “thing” that killed Fish—as a civilian scholar with no power at all, Sophie was simply too easy to kill. It would not be surprising at all if her dead body was nowhere to be found.

Upon comparison, he was more concerned with the mysterious person who filled Fish.

Struck by a sudden thought, Leon went to the temple. He sat down in the quiet room and started to cast a spell.

He wanted to use a Divination spell to find out if the guy who killed Fish had anything to do with Garth City.

Who on earth could it be? Honestly, he was not very interested. But would that person affect Garth? This, he was very interested in, or rather, very worried about.

In terms of strength, an assassin who could kill Fish Ilo so soundlessly was at least at the legendary level. And from the analysis of the way Fish died, this person was most likely not a common Legendary master—people of the Ilo family had sought the help of three very high-level adventurers to carefully examine Fish’s dead body. In the end, they confirmed that Fish was neither poisoned nor subdued by someone. He had flopped his butt on the ground after being injured and moved his body a few steps back. Then he fell into a daze like a silly fool and remained in this state until he died from excessive bleeding.

To be able to do something like this, even when Leon asked himself honestly, it was obvious that throughout the entire world, there were few who were capable of doing so, not to mention the entire Kingdom of the Blue Moon.

He was sure he could do it. Of all the people he knew, Satan and Gerald should be able to do it, and Tu Ya’an was probably able to do it too. Other than these few… one or two from the Sea race and probably one or two from the Orc Empire would also be able to do it. There would also be people from the Mifata Federation and the Kingdom of Light capable of something like that.

However, the total number of all these people would not exceed the total number of fingers on two hands.

There were no more than 10 such supreme masters in the world, so why would they pit themselves against such an ordinary character like Fish Ilo? And even go to the extent of specifically executing such means to cause such a big commotion?

Assuming that it had been Leon himself who wanted to kill Fish, he probably would have gone looking for Fish in the middle of the night and stab him right through his heart. He would arrive as quietly as possible and leave as quietly as he could, without leaving the slightest trace of his presence.

If he put himself in the shoes of others, the masters he knew would probably do the same. They would never do something so strange like that person because this was really too painful.

This was why Leon could not help but ponder, since when did the world have such a master?

Could they be… from another world?