An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

It was dusk, and in a private room of Poise Brothel, Dustin and the others gathered to listen to Terra's report.

Although the murderer was still at large, Terra had found out something through his investigation.

"Dalen, based on our Shadow Citadel's intelligence report, I've found something out," Terra began.

He continued, "Someone saw the killer last night. According to the witness, the killer was skinny, and his face was hideous. There's also a black mark on his forehead.

"I've hired an artist to draw a portrait of the killer based on the witness's description. Here it is."

Terra took a portrait out from his pocket and handed it to Dalen carefully.

Dalen looked at the portrait and frowned.

The person in the portrait was indeed hideous, skinny, and bony. There was a palm-sized black mark on his left forehead, which looked like snake skin.

was hard to ignore, let

is the murderer?"

knew almost all the swordsmen in the martial world. Yet, he had never seen nor heard of such a person before. The man

his face under the mask, I did see the

of you seen this

portrait on the table so everyone could take a

ugly face if I've seen

I've seen this person before." Crystal shook

recognize him immediately

this

rubbing his chin, trying

correctly, this man is either a genius or

his shoulder is higher than the other. His left hand is longer than his right. He's a bit hunched too. It seems like he

managed to master sword technique and even killed warriors of grandmaster level.