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

-Knock! -Knock!

was the sound of someone knocking

"Come in"

wearing a black suit, an individual came

have received

...

-Tak!

do with the two guys you brought

my hand froze for a split

of seconds to

who helped me carry the bodies

"Them?"

Smallsnake asked once

did you do with

that, they

"huh?"

"Yup.

They escaped.

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

had to

time I returned they

negligent on

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 minutes in, I had to

-Bam!

fist against the

I

shook his

your acting is

my eyes wide, a hurt look appeared on my face. Wiping the corner of my eye,

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

-Tak!

pawn, Smallsnake gestured for

"your move"

Snorting, I replied

won't change the fact that

...

contact the guild master

"As you wish"

back, Patrick stared at the window of his

to think that they could play

How audacious indeed

help but think to

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

fact that two of

them, they instantly recounted

to recruit Ryan, to suddenly finding themselves ambushed and how they

part, Patrick didn't care...however, a certain section of the report

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

Bull with a cross.

Bull's Wrath's

the report more seriously and got a better idea of what

Bull's Wrath insignia stopped them from recruiting the kid that they had a

prove that Bull's Wrath was responsible for the conflict,

didn't believe in

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

definitely make them

...

-Tak!

pieces on the board,

basically you redirected everything you

-Tak!

head in confirmation I moved another one of my chess pieces. Glancing at

"Yeah, pretty much"

Frowning, Smallsnake asked

"Why Bull's wrath though?"

the guilds he chose to