Episode 6: The Road to Revenge Chapter 12: Detection

Patterson fully understood at this moment of death.

In particular, he had attended Linley’s father’s worship and understood that Linley’s father was dead.

It was ridiculous that he had wanted to leave alive just a moment ago, and now he fully understood why Linley had done so. There was a deep unwillingness in Patterson’s heart, unwilling to die like this, with his strength as a rank seven warrior, it wouldn’t be hard to live for two or three hundred years.

He still had a long life ahead of him.

“If I die, Clyde you don’t want to be good either.”

As Patterson’s soul was swallowed over by the Underworld, all he had in his heart was a kind of resentment towards Clyde. …… Witnessing Patterson die, Linley also returned to his normal form.

“Clyde, the figure behind this is actually Clyde.”

Linley’s brows furrowed deeply.

Clyde himself was a rank nine powerhouse, and Linley was only at the beginning of rank eight even if he was fully dragonized.

It wasn’t on the same level as Clyde at all. Linley just couldn’t hurt a rank nine powerhouse at all with a sneak attack. The gap was simply too great.

And the power that Clyde possessed was also very strong.

The king of the Finlay Kingdom, would he have fewer men under his command? Moreover, for so many years, Clyde, as the King of the Kingdom of Finlay, which was the first of the six kingdoms under the Holy Alliance, had a very good relationship with the Illuminati. His foundation was much deeper than his own.

Whether it was compared to his own strength or his men, he himself could not compare to Clyde.

“Perhaps I’m just possessing the advantage of being in the shadows right now.”

Linley was constantly thinking in his mind about how to deal with Clyde.

Drinkwater emerged from the Ring of Coiled Dragons and immediately urged Linley, “Linley, don’t waste any more time, what you need to do now is to hurry up and eliminate all traces that might reveal your identity.

You need to hurry back to your mansion. Otherwise, you’ll go back too late. In the future, the investigation into who killed Padreson will probably suspect you. “Linley instantly woke up.

Right!

His only advantage was that he was in the shadows, and no matter what, he couldn’t let Clyde be alerted to him.

“Destroy the corpse.”

Linley instantly sent out dozens of flame balls directly and instantly, dozens of flame balls directly wrapped around Patterson’s corpse, and with Linley’s current spiritual power, the temperature of the flame balls formed was still extremely high.

Patterson’s body was burned extremely quickly, at the same time a very unpleasant odor also emanated, after a while there was only a little bit of charred bones and crushed ashes.

The odor unique to that incinerated corpse caused Linley to furrow his brows.

“Linley, there’s still your clothes.”

Drinkwater reminded.

Linley looked down, and sure enough. After ‘dragonization’ his own clothes were completely tattered beyond recognition. Linley fetched his own ground, and then without hesitation, he directly took off his tunic and pants. Immediately, he also burned these clothes cleanly.

Linley immediately opened the mechanism.

“Gah gah” the stone door opened again, Lin Lei quickly stepped out and then immediately closed the mechanism.

In any case, it was better to close this stone door. Otherwise, if it was left open, I’m afraid that the smell of burning corpses would soon attract people over.

“There should be clothes inside this small building.”

Linley looked at the undergarments he was wearing, and naturally the torn undergarments couldn’t be passed out. That would definitely cause others to become suspicious. Linley immediately stepped into the room next to him and opened the closet.

A set of clothes was hanging in the closet.

Linley chose a black set of clothes that were more similar to the ones he had worn when he arrived. After putting on the clothes, Linley once again used wind magic to dispel the faint smell of blood and burning corpses around his body.

“Go back early. Can’t let anyone be alerted.”

Linley’s entire body quickly leapt up. Directly leaping out of the courtyard of the small building. Almost seconds later, he arrived at the front yard.

At this moment, there was still a small number of some noble guests who were talking and laughing with one another.

“Ah, Lord Linley. You haven’t left yet?”

Earl Juno was also walking towards the outside at this time, and when he saw Linley not far away, he hastened to greet him warmly.

Linley smiled and said, “En, just now my stomach was not feeling well. Went to the outhouse for a bit.”

Count Juno immediately walked alongside Linley.

“Lord Linley, I’m a huge fan of your stone carvings, I’m the one who bought the three pieces you auctioned off in your first exhibition at the Proulx Guild Hall.”

Count Juno proudly told Linley. Count Juno’s proudest thing, I’m afraid, was buying the three pieces of work that Linley had exhibited for the first time.

I’m afraid that those three works of Linley were each worth only six or seven thousand gold coins, purely from the point of view of the works themselves.

But …… Lin Lei’s identity is different now, he is the carving master who carved out the ‘Dream Awakening’, on the identity and Proulx, Hopkinson is not much different. The price of the three works of such a character’s first exhibition and sale would not be low?

According to the estimation, it was because of the significance of the works that made Count Juno’s collection of those three works, each of which should have at least 100,000 gold coins! I am afraid that this is Count Juno’s proudest collection. Count Juno had also decided that these three pieces of artwork should be collected all the time, and he believed that the higher Linley’s achievements would be in the …… future, the value of his three pieces of artwork would also rise.

“Lord Linley, take your time.”

The butler at the entrance to the Debus family residence respectfully said to Linley.

With a nod, Linley bid farewell to Count Juno and entered his carriage.

“Go back.”

Entering the carriage, Linley ordered blandly.

“Yes, my lord.”

The seventh-ranked warrior of the Church of Light bowed in response and immediately drove the carriage towards Linley’s residence.

“It took almost fifteen minutes with Patterson.”

Linley took out his pocket watch and glanced at it.

This pocket watch was one of the many gifts given by the many guests congratulating Linley after he had been made a Marquis.

Because he liked the style of this pocket watch, Linley carried it close to his body.

“Fifteen minutes. Count Juno and the others are almost the last guests to leave. Without careful investigation, no one should suspect me.”

Linley said in his heart, “There’s still one more problem, Patterson said that his butler knew that he was going to meet someone, but didn’t know who he was meeting.”

Linley’s brows furrowed, “But that can’t be trusted in its entirety, perhaps Patterson’s butler, knew that it was me that Patterson was meeting. And Patterson might have reassured me at the time before deliberately saying that.”

Linley also thought of this possibility.

Patterson’s housekeeper!

It was indeed a loophole.

There was also …… if it was investigated seriously. I’m afraid that others would have realized where exactly Linley had gone in the last fifteen minutes. It was just that at that time, the nobles were casually gossiping and scatteredly leaving back and forth one after another. At that time, that kind of scenario, and also checking out a particular person, I’m afraid it would also be difficult.

“At least no one saw me meet with Patterson with their own eyes, and the attendant who did has already been killed by Patterson.”

Linley was secretly determined in his heart.

Other people were suspicious of themselves at most, but had no evidence to lay hands on them.

“Boss, what are you thinking about?”

Bebe lay on Linley’s lap, lifting his small head to look at Linley.

“Nothing.”

Linley stroked Bebe’s head, his entire being completely calm.

“My lord. Arrived.”

Linley lifted the curtain of the car door and looked up to see the endless night sky. The night sky was covered in stars at the moment. Linley couldn’t help but feel a surge of pleasure in his heart, and his heart to kill Clyde grew firmer: “Patterson is dead today. Next, it’s Clyde’s turn.”

On the first and second day of Patterson’s disappearance, except for Patterson’s housekeeper, no one else realized that something was wrong.

Among the living room of the Debus family land, there was only Bernard and a middle-aged man with blue hair.

“Bernard, on the night of Karan’s engagement, did Lord Duke leave from your place?”

The middle-aged man with blue hair asked after him. This turquoise-haired middle-aged man was none other than ‘Lodi’, the butler of Duke Patterson’s mansion.

Bernard’s heart was filled with stifled anger.

Your Duke Lord is gone. You ask me?

Bernard was aware of it. That night, Duke Patterson didn’t even tell him who he was seeing, and didn’t say a word when he left. How could he, Bernard, know?

“The Duke left. There is no Lord Duke within my mansion.”

Bernard answered directly.

The day after the engagement ceremony Bernard had sent people to dispose of that attendant’s body, and his men had not found any trace of Duke Patterson in the small building.

“Oh.”

Lodi’s brow furrowed before he looked at Bernard. “Bernard, if you find any trace of my lord, you must tell me. This matter can be light or heavy, and if it’s heavy, it might even expose your Debus family’s smuggling as well.”

Bernard couldn’t help but blush.

“Alright, I’ll go back first.”

Lodi left with a heavy heart.

Looking at Lodi’s departing back, Bernard’s heart was a little uneasy, and he immediately decided to make a trip to the small building that Patterson had once visited.

In the middle of the hidden small building of the Debus family residence.

Bernard alone stepped into it, originally died in the living room door of the small building, the body of the waiter has long been sent by Bernard to deal with the clean, Bernard looked at the small building, his eyebrows wrinkled: “Duke Patterson said to meet a guest here, but then did not go back. Could it be ……”

Bernard thought of a possibility.

The secret room in the ground of this small building was not known to several people in the Debus family. Naturally the henchmen who packed up the corpse wouldn’t know about it, nor would they go in to investigate.

And this secret room, Bernard told Duke Patterson, and he also told Duke Patterson that absolutely no one could overhear the discussion of things in the secret room.

“Impossible, it’s impossible for that to happen.”

Bernard quickly stepped into the living room, and then immediately walked to the secret room organ and opened it.

“Gah gah,” the ‘stone door’ that looked like a wall slowly opened once again, and at the same time, a bloody gas and a stench of burning corpses poured out of his nose.

Bernard’s face couldn’t help but look ugly.

Quickly step into the secret room, the marble floor has a few cracks, at the same time there are blood stains. Next to him was a pile of burnt human bones and ashes.

“Someone is dead.”

Bernard knew it very well.

However, this person was burnt to ashes, and Bernard was unable to recognize who it was.

“The ring!”

Bernard suddenly saw that amongst the ashes there was a silver gray dirty ring, Bernard looked at the style of this ring, it was very similar to the ring that Duke Patterson often wore on his hand.

Bernard face all of a sudden no blood color.

“Patterson, I’m afraid is dead.”

Bernard’s mind was instantly confused.

This time, the Debus family spent more than half of the family’s funds and a large amount of manpower to start the business of smuggling water jade ore with Duke Patterson. This business is still very important to the Debus family. But once this business is publicized …… that is not a loss of money, I am afraid that the Debs family will be in a rage Clyde directly plagiarized!

The entire Debus family, may be directly finished.

“No, it’s impossible to die, Duke Patterson is a seventh level warrior, how can he die so easily? With his cautious character, he definitely wouldn’t secretly meet alone with someone whose strength exceeds his.”

Bernard could not accept this result.

Indeed, Duke Patterson was cautious, but unfortunately, Patterson hadn’t calculated Linley’s true strength. …… The entire city of Finlay remained calm, Linley quietly cultivating in his mansion as usual, yet when Duke Patterson disappeared for half a month, His Majesty King Clyde, who had been in a state of quietness, finally gave an order. First, he had directly arrested the steward of the Duke’s residence, ‘Lodi’, and then he had even conducted a large-scale thorough investigation into the matter.

In the middle of the parlor of Linley’s residence.

“Lord Linley, His Majesty has an order asking Lord Linley to make a trip to the royal palace.”

Looking at the order brought by the palace attendant in front of him, Linley’s heart was a little uncertain, what exactly was this His Majesty Clyde summoning him for?

“Please wait, I’ll change my clothes and head to the royal palace right away.”

Linley replied with a smile.