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?

he had

-Knock! -Knock!

thoughts was the sound of someone knocking on the

"Come in"

wearing a black

we have

...

-Tak!

do with the two guys you brought here

my hand froze for a

took me a couple of seconds to

the bodies

"Them?"

his head, Smallsnake asked once

you do with

they sort

"huh?"

"Yup.

They escaped.

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

to go to the

returned they were already

negligent on my

I recounted what had happened, noticing Smallsnake's darkening

to my knot tying skills...and honestly, I tried really

-Bam!

the

how could I have been

shook his head

acting

appeared on my face. Wiping

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

-Tak!

pawn, Smallsnake gestured

"your move"

Snorting, I replied

won't change the fact that I'm

...

contact the guild master of Sword of

"As you wish"

his hands interlocked behind his back, Patrick stared at the

and ambitious enough to think that they could play the oriole without

How audacious indeed

Patrick couldn't help

succeeded if not for the fact that they had

report detailing the fact that two of his subordinates had

them, they instantly

recruit Ryan, to suddenly finding

care...however, a certain

saw that the aggressor had an insignia of a bull with a cross inside of

Bull with a cross.

Bull's Wrath's

seriously and got a better idea

someone wearing Bull's Wrath insignia stopped them from recruiting the

Wrath was responsible for the conflict, it was enough for

believe

already sent the information to Sword of Light...now it was time to

will definitely make them pay

...

-Tak!

on

everything

-Tak!

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

"Yeah, pretty much"

Frowning, Smallsnake asked

"Why Bull's wrath though?"

chose to