{Outside the interrogation room- A few hours later- Ez P.O.V}
Closing the door and coming out Connor sighed in frustration.
"Did you get her confession?" I asked.
"Yes, she admitted to delving office secrets to her fiancé as casual talks and had no other ill intentions.
Frankly, that should be a punishable offence but seeing as how my outburst from the 2nd floor reached the ground floor via the mouth of other staffs in the HQ, everyone in the office should be punished.
Hence we have decided not to hold her accountable as long as that is alright with you, your highness." Connor replied.
I shrugged my shoulder telling him it's his business.
Although Connor was very perceptive he missed a tiny detail in this case, that is vital to show that there is another party at play here, namely Amelia.
It was the fact that messages passed along over quite a lot of people are not reliable. This was one of the reason, the party game Chinese whispers became very fun to play in large groups.
The 'rumours' spread by other staff about each cases update (that Connor shouts out) will always be distorted and contorted by the time it reaches the ground floors' last ear.
Hence that meant there was another party at play here that passed the information directly without any corruption to the information.
I noticed similar patterns like this throughout all his active cases. After discovering the final body, I had come back to the police HQ and looked through all of Connors file and noticed subtle clues that someone was messing with his cases.
The person who has been messing was someone who knew the intricacies of the case much better than someone who heard it from the mouth of someone. Someone was passing the details of the case to the involved criminals directly.
At that moment I knew the involved person was either Connors' superior or someone on the same rank as him, who had the right to access these case files' storerooms.
Looking through the case files of other detectives of the same rank I noticed this pattern was only occurring in Connors' files. That meant whoever was doing this was targeting him on purpose.
I excluded most of his superiors right away. There were some patterns sometimes that showed that whoever was reading his case files were in a hurry and often missed some key points. His superior will never be in a hurry, especially when they can access his case files legally and take their time without arousing suspicion. That meant it was one of his co-workers.
For the next few minutes after getting out of the case files room I had spent observing each and every one of his co-workers, fitting my criteria.
All it took was 10 minutes sitting on the sofa and watching each of them going on their business albeit with slight tension at seeing me. It took 10 minutes because it took Amelia 10 minutes to enter my sight.
As soon as she saw me, I could see it in her eyes that Anthony had made her aware of my recruitment process, my assistance with all of Connors cases and that I will soon assist her with her cases after I am done with Connor's. But that was not all, her sudden shift in body weight to the right side-instinctively- where Connor's office was located told me, that she didn't want me there or near Connor.
Along with a few other things, I confirmed it was her. Despite being one of the dealers of the underworld she still liked solving her cases and took her job in all seriousness.
Of course, me being me, I had offered to keep her secret in return for not working on her cases and she will work for similar to Connor.
At the same time, I wondered how many of Albert's agents were monitoring her right now.
There was no way for Albert to not be aware of a detective posing as a successful broker of the night world of the empire, especially when the said dealer was in the capital, right under his nose.
If she had kept up her appearance successfully without my interference then she would have soon received a visit from Alberts unit, offering her an invitation to part of their unit. But now with my involvement, they will think twice before recruiting her.
Coming back to reality from my flashback I nodded towards Ellis.
Ellis proceeded to take a folder out of his jacket and passed it to Connor.
"These are the files containing details about your assignment. I don't care how you do it, neither the expenses but I want results in 3 weeks' time." I explained as Connor furrowed his brows.
Without waiting for him to reply I turned around to leave.
Shortly joined by Luke who just walked out of Amelia's office, having just given her the same folder.
Having both of them working on this case together will speed it up. Amelia will use her underground network, while Connor will use his pure investigation skills. Combined I will receive my results soon.
Walking out I stood and absorbed the cold air lingering with the blue moon.
"Let's move!" I ordered.
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{Few hours later-Dexter's House}
Dexter took the file from my hand and proceeded to read it.
After finishing with the last page his expression hardened. "How sure are you?"
"95%. From Alister's expression, I know for a fact that he was listening to someone's instructions. It's not easy to hide things from my eyes." I replied.
"But we thoroughly checked him. I had to even double-check personally just because you wanted to be inside that building." Archer quipped beside Dexter as the other two commandments tried to figure out where this was leading to.
"I know. Which proves my point, and another reason why we should go ahead with my new project." I pointed out.
"Elaborate for those in the dark please." Titus moaned in irritation.
"If Archer couldn't find any communication device on Alister when it was very clear that he was receiving orders, how do you think he was receiving his instructions?" I asked Titus.
"Magi?" Titus asked.
"Not possible, Lord Titus. The building was secured against any possible means of magi or award, due to Ms Sophia being there." Archer answered while shaking his head.
Before he could take another guess I proceeded to explain. "If Archer couldn't find it, then it means the communication device was extremely small to his eyes."
"That's not possibl..."
"Yes, it is, if they are sufficiently well advanced in technology." I interrupted Maximus.
"In fact, after looking at our current model, I can see several ways to improve it in several aspects." I answered.
"Still, you being able to read his expression isn't enough reason to convince the court of your plan. We need more solid evidence." Dexter reasoned.
"I know. Which is why someone is bringing us a piece of more solid evidence." I said.
There was a moment of silence as everyone, including Archer looked outside the window and waited for the said someone to come through the gates.
Seeing no one coming after a few seconds of awkwardness, everyone turned towards me.
"I never said he is coming right now." Seeing the glare of everyone on me, I proceeded to drink the juice in silence.
"Archer." After a few more seconds, Dexter called out, who in turn suddenly nodded before disappearing.
Looking outside the window I could see the man of the hour finally here, being greeted and welcomed by Archer outside.
All of us waited in silence, while I felt the burning curiosity in all of them how Whizz could possibly have any evidence.
*Knock**Knock*
"Come in!" Dexter ordered.
Archer walked in followed by inviting Dr Whizz in, who was carrying a briefcase.
"It is an honour to see you again, your highness." Whizz greeted me.
"Same to you Whizz. These are a few partners of mine, to whom I am introducing a new project. Before they invest in the project they need to see some papers. Do you have the documents?" I asked.
"Yes surely. It wasn't hard to conduct the test you asked me for, but these results suggest something very dangerous, your highness." Whizz started talking as he knelt down to open the briefcase and took out a folder lying on top of stacks of papers.
Archer took the folder and passed it to Dexter, who started reading. As he started reading I could see the comprehending side of his brain running on full power.
Closing the folder, he looked at me in disbelief as he passed the folder to Maximus.
One by one everyone in the room finished reading the file.
"Whizz just how sure are you about the tests?" Titus asked in disbelief.
"100% my lord. I am not sure what exactly happened in that room, but as you all know radiation is usually strangely absent or not present much in magi spells. I think it might be due to..." Whizz started wandering off.
"Whizz please get to the point please." I interrupted before Whizz lost himself in his world.
Whizz paused before he nodded to me. "Right, sorry. So, as you all know radiation is most commonly found in our technology devices. But due to most of the technology being incorporated with magi particles the amount of radiation it leeks is negligible.
However, the amount of radiation we found inside that room is enough to kill any normal person within hours."
After he said that he turned to look at me in concern.
"Don't worry about me, my food should patch me up."
"But your highness..."
"Even if it does have long-lasting effects, I don't think it will be quick enough to catch up with my condition." I waved my hand.
Whizz suddenly had a look of extreme sadness and loss.
*Ahem* Turning towards Maximus who coughed. "How does this relate with this Alister and the 'radiation' found in that room?"
Before Whizz could start I interrupted again. "Remember Whizz keep it simple and brutally blunt."
"The amount of radiation I found in that room, means; someone was capable of making a device that leaked a huge amount of radiation, which is usually only found in weapons of high destruction."
"So? That device was only able to kill one person. I could do the same thing, but much better. In fact, I could wipe out 100's this instant if I felt like it. What difference does it make" Dexter asked, however this time I could feel he wasn't asking this question to mock, but rather to confirm something from my own mouth.
"The difference is that to be you it takes time, training, while others monitor you and keep you in check to stop you from doing that but whoever wields this device can achieve the same results without having any of those cons. An untrained normal child could wield and activate that device to kill a rank 2 magi.
Not to mention the said user of this device neither the device was not found anywhere near the spot of the crime."
For a moment there was silence.
"If the court agrees to your project, how long will it take before we can be prepared for something like this again?" Maximus asked in all seriousness
"Well as long as I have full control of the research facility and all personals inside the building then I can assure that within 1 year I can get something to detect and alert us of these devices in every corner of the empire." I smiled, while Whizz had a doubtful look.
Dexter nodded, but this time with relief on everyone's face.