Chapter 95: The One Behind It?
Aldrian looked at the corpses scattered around the carriage. He saw Eleine and Sylphia tried to probe the bodies, searching for any useful information. Xin Haotian still acted as if nothing mattered to him, but Aldrian knew he never lowered his guard. When they all sensed Aldrian’s return, Eleine approached him.
"They really decisive to chose suicide, they must be from a professional assassin group, we found nothing on their bodies."
"There are a few assassin groups on the continent. Some even dare to operate within the Ivory Empire, so I’m not surprised they would attack us in the Thorny Flower Garden’s territory," Sylphia added.
"I didn’t find anything that could identify their group either, we still don’t know if they acted alone or if someone hired them." Aldrian replied.
He then turned to Xin Haotian.
What do you think?"
"Not all assassins leave signs of their group during a mission. When I checked them, their armaments were fairly standard for assassins, so it’s difficult to identify them just from that. However, we can narrow it down to a certain group because I found that all their weapons are made from thunder iron, which is mostly found in the northwest of the continent, in the Atria Empire. I assume they’ve mastered the lightning laws, and I have one particular assassin group in mind," Xin Haotian replied, his eyes still closed.
"The Thunderous Shadow Pavilion. Their whereabouts are unknown, but they’re famous for using thunder iron, and most of their members practice lightning laws, which coincidentally are favored by some families in the Atria Empire. No other group outside the Atria Empire has specialized in lightning laws, which is why many believe this assassin group originated there. But we have no solid evidence to confirm it."
Aldrian grew more confused. The Atria Empire? Why would assassins from a place I have no connection to come all the way here just to his group? If someone wanted them dead, wouldn’t the mastermind have hired one of the demon groups for the assassination? It all seemed far-fetched. He had no ties to anyone from that empire—
"Wait—I do have a connection with them," he realized, nearly forgetting that group.
"The Golden Swan Commerce."