Chapter 195: Dream Lucidity - Comprehending the Extreme Contrast!
The entire nation of Buckfastleigh had been put under curfew.
Worse was the situation of the nation's capital with thousands of royal police guards and hundreds of investigators turning it upside-down, hoping to find... well, something.
It all happened on the night of the auction, just after they had sold the last item. A scream had awakened the sleeping monsters in and out of the City Hall, and it was so heinous and heart-wrenching that it was impossible to relate it to a grieving woman, and the storm that had rampaged the city afterward.
Viscount Lucas Arbuthnot, Set Lord of the 2nd Set, had been assassinated in his chamber at the topmost section of the Hall.
That was pretty much everything the officials could say for sure then.
A day later, when all the nobles, guards, and commandos had been questioned, the Royal Police Force released a statement that the late Viscount had died of Soul Shock.
It was a frightening effect of various Skills using which a user could freeze, burn, or petrify the target's soul completely from within. None could find the attacker, however. How could someone possibly attack the Viscount within the protection of the enchanted chamber walls? Soul Shock was an effect of Instantaneous Skills, so the attacker must have been near to him when the Viscount had died.
Yet, aside from his lady wife, and now widow Elenora, there was no one with him.
Not known to all, but among a tight circle of prominent officials and the other 6th-floor Contestants present in the same section, there was a talk of two unknown individuals who had shared the chamber of the late Viscount. It turned out that the other two individuals had paid for all the Items that were thought to be bought by the Set Lord.
Even stranger and the mind-gobbling thing was that the Royal Police Force adamantly refused to release the sketches of the faces of these two individuals in this tight circle when demanded so.
Not only that but they also refused to pursue the matter of their identity, stating that these two individuals had left the chambers half an hour earlier based on the statement of the lady Elenora and the four guards stationed outside the chamber's doors.