The Author's POV

-Knock!

Thirty minutes after Victor left, Patrick heard someone knocking on his door.

"Come in"

Entering the room, Victor bowed slightly and said

"Guild Master, as per your orders, we've looked through all of the camera footage from the night where the incident happened."

Pausing, looking at Patrick straight into the eyes, Victor solemnly said

"We found something..."

Nodding his head, Patrick spoke

"Show me"

Tapping on the holographic function of the tablet, a 3D video replayed in front of Patrick. The camera angle pointed towards a rather secluded parking lot area near the nightclub.

Pointing at the video, Victor said

"In one of the video cameras, we managed to spot a suspicious individual exiting the venue right after the fight started. The most interesting part regarding that individual is that he was wearing a skin mask"

Frowning, Patrick couldn't help but glance at Victor as he asked.

"A skin mask? That is indeed suspicious, did you managed to find out his identity"

Right now, he didn't really care about the details.

He just wanted to find the guy responsible for crippling his son...

Nodding his head, using the holographic function of the tablet, a profile appeared before Patrick.

"we've managed to identify the identity of the masked man that was responsible for taking the young master's arm."

"With reference from the database from the system, we managed to identify the man as Patrick Marr. He is currently working as a manager for a construction firm not so far from here, and other than that there were no notable discoveries...however, once we dug further we were able to find a crucial piece of information."

Pausing slightly, Victor looked at Patrick and slowly said

"The company he is currently working for is a subsidiary of Bull's wrath"

Nodding his head from time to time as he heard Victor talk, pausing for a moment as if something clicked inside of his mind, Patrick fell into deep thought.

"Bull's wrath, Bull's wrath...I see"

Repeating the name a couple of times, a trace of a smile appeared on his face

That indeed sounded suspicious.

Bull's wrath.

If Patrick thought about it, the guild that would benefit the most out of Luxious fighting against Sword of Light would definitely be them...

They too were a gold graded guild, and compared to the other gold graded guilds in the vicinity, they were the ones that were closest to both Sword of Light and Luxious.

Moreover, both Luxious and Sword of Light had conflicts with Bull's Wrath...

"I see..."

As his thoughts paused there, the frown on his brows deepened.

His instincts told him that Bull's Wrath were indeed the ones responsible for instigating the conflicts between Sword of Light and them, however...

He didn't have enough evidence.

Just because the culprit worked for a subsidiary that was under Bull's Wrath control didn't mean they were actually working for them...

They could very well be hired mercenaries in disguise.

This would mean that this was planned by someone else and that they were trying to insinuate that Bull's Wrath was behind it...

"Just who is it..."

The more Patrick thought about it, the more questions emerged in his mind.

Just who?

only he

-Knock! -Knock!

the sound of someone knocking on the door. Regaining his usually cold bearing, Patrick coldly

"Come in"

a black suit,

we have

...

-Tak!

you do with the two guys you

a moment, my hand froze for a

of seconds to understand what Smallsnake was

helped me carry the

"Them?"

head, Smallsnake

did you

that, they sort

"huh?"

"Yup.

They escaped.

Ryan's house, I brought them to a relatively isolated storage space and tied them up with a rope. I

had to go

returned

on my

had happened, noticing Smallsnake's darkening face, I coughed

am confident with regards to my knot tying skills...and honestly, I tried really hard to look for them. Ten

-Bam!

fist against the

could I

shook his

your acting is really

hurt look appeared on my face. Wiping the corner of my eye, I replied

Why are you coming at me like that Smallsnake?...How could you belittle me like

-Tak!

head, moving a pawn, Smallsnake

"your move"

Snorting, I replied

changing the topic won't

...

contact the guild master of Sword

"As you wish"

hands interlocked behind his back, Patrick

was so audacious and ambitious enough to think that they could play the

How audacious indeed

couldn't help but think

might've actually succeeded if not for the fact that they had been negligent

detailing the fact that two of his subordinates had just come back

instantly

they were trying to recruit Ryan, to suddenly finding themselves ambushed and how they miraculously

didn't care...however, a certain section of

had an insignia of a bull with a cross inside of his

Bull with a cross.

was Bull's Wrath's

more seriously and got a better idea of what had

stopped them from recruiting the kid that they had

Wrath was responsible for the conflict, it was enough for

didn't believe

had already sent the information to Sword of Light...now

make them

...

-Tak!

of the chess pieces on the

you redirected everything you did to Bull's

-Tak!

my head in confirmation I moved another one of my chess pieces. Glancing at the board, apart from a few pieces,

"Yeah, pretty much"

Frowning, Smallsnake asked

"Why Bull's wrath though?"

of all the guilds he chose to use as a scapegoat,