1st PoV
Hearing Noah's question, I couldn't help but laugh. Hearing me laugh made Noah have a shocked look on his face as he said "I should have expected it".
Seeing him a bit depressed I said "Don't worry, most likely you are the first one to realize it".
Iris and Lily had confused looks on their faces which asked the question what do you mean. Seeing this I said "The clues are fake. They are random things I decided to put in the clue. Do you think I am sort of an egomaniac who would rat himself out like this? The genius detectives and the mystery-loving people will have a treasure hunt which will lead to nothing".
Hearing this they both had mixed feelings as they both tried to solve it but couldn't. But hearing that thousands of others will also fail makes them have a satisfied expression.
After the get-together was over I went to the castle. It has been a while since I have gone there.
I knocked on the King's Office room. I heard the King giving his permission. I walked in and saw a surprised expression on his face. He then asked me "Please sit down Mr Adair. How have you been?".
I replied, "I am doing well. I came here to talk about my recent mission".
He thought for a moment and replied "If I am correct, it is the money laundering gang mission, right. They killed some of our people. They had to be killed. What is the problem then? That was a simple mission".
"They used magic to attack me. I thought no one other than us knew magic." I said.
The King took a few moments to think about my answer as he concluded. He had a furious and enraged expression on his face as he said "That bastard, he dared to do that".
I never saw him angry but this was on a whole nother level as I could feel the pressure. I felt like a bug compared to the world.
To avert the pressure I muttered "Manipulation Magic Pressure Manipulation Ineffective".
The pressure was gone in the room as the King felt that I used magic and had an apologetic look on his face.
He then answered "The Undead King used a ritual to give him the power to bestow magic. Though it may not be as powerful as ours. it can limit our magic to low levels. The reason why we destroy any proof of this ritual is that this ritual requires 100,000 human sacrifices, a mana diamond, lots of mana and Human blood. That bastard must have planned this for centuries. We have to kill him soon or he will start the event. It may happen within a few weeks".
He started muttering and starting making counter plans to his original plans trying to find flaws in them. He then looked at me and said "Try to find information about the Undead King. You, Iris, Noah and Lily, you all will go on this mission. Make sure you can find as much information as you can and return safely. This is a very important mission. Go and inform them".
I nodded and went to their houses to call them. They agreed to meet at Iris's house as she can use Spatial magic.
We all met within 15 minutes. Iris was worried and tense. She was also sweating a bit as she walked left and right as if she was frustrated. I asked her "What is the event? The King mentioned something about it".
She sighed and answered "You don't know what the event means. No wonder you are looking calm. The event is a major problem that will happen in the future. This is when Utopia is exposed to the real world due to some reason. The main cause of all of our guesses is the Undead King. He doesn't think he should. He doesn't care if magic is exposed to the real world or not. All he wants is the destruction of the living. For that, he killed 100,000 and he is willing to do more. He will do anything to succeed. That is why we all are worried. We don't have time, let's go
Spatial magic Portal".
A tear in the space came as we entered it. We were in Haiti, home of the Undead King. It has been said this was where the "myth" of zombies came from, so we decided to start from here. We went to the outskirts of the country where there are ruins of villages. We split up and all went to a particular one. We decided to meet back here to learn which is the one where the Undead King once lived.
The village was in pristine condition. I went to the houses or huts. There was nothing but ordinary stuff there until I went to the second last hut. In there I found nothing. You could see nothing but a normal hut but when you surround mana with your eyes. You will see things like a voodoo doll, blood stains, human skulls and decayed animal body parts. It was some sort of ritual but it wasn't done properly as even I could tell that some of the spellings are wrong.
I had to cover my nose as the smell was too disgusting. I could also see some pieces of meat.
I then left and checked the last hut and returned to the place. After a few minutes, Iris opened a portal and reached here. Then Lily came and lastly, Noah came.
Iris said, "I found nothing, just some ruins, I checked the places magically as well but still the same result".
Lily said, "I found some notes about old rituals, other than that nothing. Oh, before I forget I also found some voodoo dolls. It was very creepy seeing them. after watching some movies about them".
I then spoke and said, "I found a ritual site. The ritual wasn't done properly as there were too many spelling mistakes. It made the ritual unstable and probably would have killed the person".
Noah then said "I also did not find anything interesting though the locals called the village you went to "The Cursed Village". We must find more information about it".