Eryndor controlled his range and headed towards the Mayor's house.
Through Jeremy's memory, he already knew where he resided so it didn't take long to find it.
It was a rather magnificent mansion which contrasted sharply with the majority of the houses in the Kantos town.
Politicians, all the same.
He inwardly sighed but continued nonetheless.
He scanned all the rooms, but was startled to discover Rodrick wasn't present here as well.
Might as well search the Mayor's memories.
Eryndor descended and looked at the sleeping mayor, with a thought, his Cognitive Scrying was activated.
It took only about a few seconds to scan through the memories of the past few days.
It turned out that when they visited the Mayor that day, the person had called his younger brother just after they left.
On the call, Rodrick instructed the Mayor to feed their group of four wrong pieces of information.
So it is confirmed, it was indeed Rodrick who indirectly fed us wrong information, and also the one who put the location tracker on us.
Eryndor didn't know if anyone in their group had offended Rodrick or if he was plotting against them just for the sake of it.
Do we look easy to bully?
Eryndor had a dark expression on his face. No one liked being on the receiving end of beating.
He couldn't wait to get to the bottom of this matter so he could foil whatever plans he had.
Now that the Mayor was confirmed to be an accomplice, Eryndor went deep into his memories to find out about the misfortune of his opposition in the election.
Maybe he could find something?
The results didn't disappoint.
John Altreck, the Mayor, had indeed asked his younger brother if there was any way to remove the opposition so his position could be more stable.
Rodrick had agreed to his request at that time, and in a span of last few weeks, one of the opposition leaders died through heart attack, one went missing and one fell sick.
There was no information or any clue in the memory of John about the details of what exactly happened to his opposition except for a certainty that it was done by his younger brother.
He hadn't even seen a shadow of his younger brother in the town during those events.
Eryndor withdrew when there was no other useful information and deactivated his ability.
What path did Rodrick take?
Eryndor fell deep into thought.
As far as he knew, the paths which could kill one through heart attack and make one fall sick weren't many.
Cultivators could do it through targeted cultivation arts. Similarly, Mages could do it too through targeted spell models.
Martial Artists and Mentalists had no such way at least in the beginner realms.
Same with the Demons and Buddhas, none of them were capable of such measures so early in the journey.
Cyborgs could do it, as they had an extensive knowledge of the human body along with the required means.
Lastly, Beast Tamers could also do it if they had the corresponding beasts.
Anyone with little power, not to mention a power system could make a person disappear so Eryndor didn't count that while filtering the power systems.
Now, which one did Rodrick take?
Eryndor logged in to the Academy's website.
It had comprehensive data on the students, but it was up to them if they wanted to hide it or display it.
Eryndor directly searched for Rodrick.
He is a mage.
But that was all there was to it. There was a couple of more basic information but not what Eryndor was looking for.
Rodrick had kept his mission history along with a few others private.
It meant Eryndor couldn't check what places Rodrick had visited in recent times for his mission.
The Academy didn't allow students to leave their campus if it wasn't for a mission or some extraordinary reason, so Rodrick could only leave the premises of the Academy through undertaking missions.
He had planned to see if Rodrick had taken any mission near Kantos town; that was the only possibility Eryndor could think of which would allow Rodrick to remove John's opposition.
No wait.
Eryndor stopped himself in time.
The Mayor's memory showed that there wasn't even a hint of his younger brother's shadow anywhere in the town.
There is a possibility he was hiding, but why would he hide from his own older brother?
Eryndor was pretty sure there were plenty of people who relied on their connections with the Human Federation and the Academy to amass wealth and power.
There was no reason for Rodrick to not meet his brother if it was simply to hide from the Human Federation or the Academy.
Allowing their relatives to gain power was a subtle way of the Human Federation's compensation to keep their employees satisfied.
They were after all fighting for Humanity, their relatives crawling up the political ranks or earning wealth through their connections was the least of the Federation's concern.
Could it be that Rodrick was not present at all?
But then who killed the opposition?
Eryndor couldn't help but feel that the schemes laid down here were each deeper than the last.
Rodrick was excellent at hiding, Eryndor couldn't do anything about it.
If nothing else worked, the last option would be to extend his range to cover the entirety of the town once again.
He couldn't do it today since he had already consumed plenty of his capacity for activation of his abilities.
Eryndor took a deep breath and once again headed in Jeremy's direction.
Even though there was no information of the missions Rodrick undertook, Jeremy was Rodrick's friend, and studied in the same class.
There might be a slim possibility he knew where Rodrick went.
Eryndor pushed through the fatigue and headache while he once again concentrated on Cognitive Scrying.
His focus faltered for a brief second due to the headache but he quickly stabilized himself, zooming towards the inn of the other group.
Without any hesitation, he once again delved into Jeremy's memory.