Cellus turned to look at where the attacks came from only for him to find Donyc standing behind him.
"What is this supposed to mean?" he asked in irritation. Donyc only smiled before responding,
"Don't be offended, my men reported an interesting character that has been moving around recently so I told them to look into it. I didn't really expect it to be you"
Cellus closed his eyes and tried to calm down before saying "Don't ever pull this stunt with me again, if you do I'll make you remember the feeling of getting beaten"
He gave Donyc a death glare before walking away. The man who was injured quickly rushed to him and says,
"Master, he is truly an immortal?"
"What happened when you were trailing him?" Donyc snapped ignoring his question..
"He seemed to be looking for someone, he even went to the Luminis school" he replied. Donyc kept quiet and tried to think of what he was up to before the man broke the silence between them.
"Do you want me to follow him again? I will definitely find more information this time" he said.
Donyc gave him a vicious smirk before and says
"You can, if you don't mind dying"
Achlys and her group assembled in one corner of the large garden to talk about the assignment, Naomi was still panting while holding the paper open. Callum looked at them a bit confused, they had been staring at the paper for a while without saying anything. He cleared his throat before speaking
"As much as you want to keep staring at this, I will like to remind you that we have to leave by this evening if we're going to make it back in time"
Lucius looked a bit apprehensively at him
"Do you think this even makes any sense? I have heard about this place before and it is the opposite of nice. I mean how could they send us somewhere that has been under siege by bandits for a very long time?" he said in agitation. Achlys nervously smiled before saying
"Don't worry, they may be much but we have our powers. Let us set out" she said quickly. Everyone turned to look at her suprised
"Didn't you hear when we were told not to use our powers?" Lucius asked her.
"She was not with us that time"
Naomi paused before going on. "I heard that our school sent out a notice that villages under attack should request help from them. That is why we have a lot of dangerous cases like this"
"I thought we would just look for people to help ourselves, I can't believe that this is the way they wanted it to be. They might as well send us to Derius" said Lucius earning a glare from Naomi.
"No matter what, it has already been decided. Rather than staying here and fuming on things that wouldn't change we should try to change the things in our power. We aren't the ones with the worst case after all" said Kali before she rose and left them.
Lucius scoffed while watching her retreating back and said,
"Not the ones with the worst case, I wonder what case could be worse than this"
They left the school later in the evening and decided to stay at an inn just outside the city, Achlys used this as an opportunity to look for Anelle and Velox since she made the preparation for where they are staying.
Their rooms were close so she went to see them after taking a bath. Lucius saw her as she walked inside Velox room suspiciously,
"What is she up to?" he mumbled and went to the door to eavesdrop on their conversation.
Achlys closed the door carefully and went to sit around the small table inside the room with Anelle and Velox.
"How has the investigation been?" she asked.
Anelle answered almost immediately,
"We found out a couple of things, but we still aren't sure of the identity of the killer apart from the fact that he is an immortal". Achlys opened her eyes in suprise before Velox continued
"They were two immortals actually, however only one was targeted for a reason we are yet to find out. It could have been possible that he didn't die at that time or the other one who appears to be very close to him is out for revenge against some certain powerful martial artist who conspired against him several years ago. However our investigation was temporarily halted because of something"
Achlys sighed trying to digest what they just said.
"If it is really an immortal killing those people it will make sense as to why no one has been able to catch him. I wonder how the martial artist could kill him though", she said.
"We just recently found out about something that could end an immortal, what is it called again. A soul blazing knife?" replied Anelle making her even more confused.
"How come something like this was kept hidden like this?" asked Achlys.
Velox shook her head as she finally realized something,
"They must have had a sinister intention, that is why they could not make it public. Why else would they hide it?" she said.
"Don't you think it will be dangerous for you guys to continue with this? I mean this isn't an average villain." said Achlys a bit worried. Velox laughed at her reaction which made Achlys frown.
"Are you telling us to stop now? I didn't know anything about this before but I've found out a lot because of you. There is no way I would quit just because of it seems dangerous, instead I would work harder to unravel this. No matter what reason he had murder is still murder there is no good side of it" said Velox.
Achlys sighed in frustration, she couldn't even understand herself anymore. This was something she wanted to get to the bottom of but not at the risk of innocent people. Her mother will grow mad with rage if she had even a hint of what they are doing.
No! Her mother was always right after all, this was too huge of a task.