Beginning Of Multiverse Saga-Chapter 303: Gathering Of Traitors 2

While Sharky was mocking them, someone spoke up. "Why was Nick killed?"

Sharky immediately focused his attention when he heard that. Looks like this trip was worth making after all.

Unfortunately, the voice was a bit hoarse and strange, as if that person were intentionally altering his voice.

"Would any of you here be able to feel at ease if Nick weren’t dead?" The black-robed individual sitting farthest out spoke up just then in a slightly mocking tone.

Sharky frowned. He really couldn’t understand why these individuals would cover themselves up that way, even modifying their voice. Don’t tell me these people can’t even distinguish between each other here?

But upon closer inspection, he still saw some differences. Even though they wore black robes, the patterns on their sleeves and collars were different.

The decorative designs on the one seated farthest away were white. The designs on the one to his left were orange, and the designs on the person to his left were red. The other two individuals’ decorative designs were blue and yellow.

What do these colors represent? Sharky wondered.

But what made his expression become even more grave were those people’s cultivations. Even though it was hard to determine their exact cultivations, there were at least two master rank cultivators, as well as two who were at the peak of the ninth rank. Even the weakest one was around the mid stage of the ninth rank. That was ignoring the fact that all of them had their own unique skills and abilities.

Had all of Cloudcenter Commandery’s traitors gathered today or something?

The room entered an awkward silence. It was clear that they were merely showing hypocritical concern toward Nick’s death. They didn’t really care.

A while later, the yellow-patterned man who had his back to Sharky spoke out to smooth things over. "Enough, enough. None of us wanted such a thing to happen. Right now, our highest priority should be to think about what we do now that Nick has died. What do we do about the power vacuum in the Civil Affairs Manor?"

The red-patterned man spoke. "Hmph, the whole Civil Affairs Manor was dead, no one knows who killed them, but it is most likely the Duke Killed them. So there is nothing to worry about the Civil Affairs."

"I already said, the Duke is dangerous for us, but no one cares about this," the blue-patterned man said. His voice sounded aged, clearly not belonging to a youngster.

The orange-patterned man also added, "Luke has already tried to kill him, but the Duke has a miracle, even though I don’t know how he came back alive."

Sharky was stunned. That person’s posture was straight and upright, making him seem familiar. However, he couldn’t think of who that person was at all.

The white-patterned man tapped on the table and said, "Find a chance to try and rope in Duke. It’s best if we can make him one of us."

The blue-patterned man released a forced chuckle and said, "That guy is smug and self-righteous. It’s not as if we’ve never tried to rope him in before, but unfortunately, it went right over his head."

"That means the method was wrong. If he’s human, he has a weakness. A more direct method might suit him more. For example, wasn’t Nick also stubborn at first? But in the end, he was convinced by us all the same." The white-patterned man harrumphed.

"What you say makes sense. I’ll think about it more," The yellow-patterned man replied in a low muffled voice.

"Compared to roping in Duke, there’s another issue I’m more concerned about." The white-patterned man slowly rotated his body, as if he were looking at everyone present. "Why was Nick captured? Furthermore, the Imperial Envoy clearly didn’t capture him for no reason. They also sent out men to capture some related officials. Why does the Imperial Envoy know such detailed information?"

After some hesitation, the yellow-patterned man said, "It was also because Duke, one of his subordinates visited Daniel Bank and fetched a chest someone else stored there previously. Soon afterward, Thomas decided to start arresting people. I fear something might have been recorded in that chest."

The others’ attention turned to him when they heard that. The red-patterned man said sinisterly, "So in the end, it was your people who leaked out this secret?"

Sharky hadn’t expected them to actually talk about him! It seemed this yellow patterned black robed man was someone from the Daniel Merchant Group. The question now was who. Judging from the current situation, even if he wasn’t the leader, he was definitely one of the highest-ranked members of the merchant group.

The yellow-patterned man waved his hand and said, "Of course not. If it really had been us who leaked it out, why would I dare to say that here? That chest was something someone stored in our bank a while ago. Our bank’s rules are that we never peek at our customers’ belongings. That’s why this ended up happening."

"Who was the one who deposited that chest?" the orange-patterned man asked.

"I’ve already sent someone to look into it. It was a little beggar who came to store it with us..." The yellow-patterned man was cut off by several people before he even finished his sentence.

"A beggar came to store something precious in your bank and you didn’t even think of it as suspicious?" The others stared at him, clearly blaming him for what had happened.

The yellow-patterned man said with a forced smile, "The things that are stored in our bank all more or less have some dark history. It’s a common occurrence to have some beggars help people store certain things. After all, we only care about the key, not the person who deposits the items.

"We’ve looked into it these past two days, and we finally found out who that little beggar was. According to the descriptions, the one who deposited that chest with us should be Leo."

"Leo!" The others released hushed cries of alarm. They clearly all knew the person.

Leo was the right hand man of Duke Cedric, and was given the important task. But in the investigation, he died mysteriously.

"I didn’t expect him to have left behind this trump card!" The white-patterned man slammed the table. He suddenly added, surprised, "The Imperial Envoy was carrying out a bunch of arrests yesterday; the related individuals were all promptly dealt with. Which one of you did that?"

The others were about to reply when a light suddenly appeared in the center of the round table.

It had originally been a cloudy night with low visibility, making it an excellent day to remain undercover. But just then, for some reason, the clouds had ended up scattering, revealing the moon behind them.

The reason why the people there were acting all mysterious was precisely to avoid having their identities exposed. That was why even though they were already having a meeting indoors, there had been no lights, and they had remained in the darkness. How could they not know what had happened when they saw the streak of light?

There’s someone here!

Sharky knew that he couldn’t continue hiding. And he already got much of the evidence. So, there is no need to wait.

He kicked off and entered inside. However, a vicious streak of sword energy appeared in front of him.

Seeing the style, he knew who he was? He was Leon Winters.

But he didn’t care about it, just with his fingers, he easily destroyed the sword strike.

But suddenly, the trees in front of Sharky suddenly grew crazily, turning into thick brambles that rushed upward, blocking his path.

The plants and flowers on the ground began to wrap around him. The leaves that were usually smooth and sleek were now full of spiky thorns, stabbing at Sharky’s body. Under the moonlight’s illumination, he could see that the thorns were gleaming blue. They were clearly poisonous.

But then suddenly the fire in Phoenix Shape’s burnt and all the plants were burnt to ashes.

Just then, a massive golden brick appeared right in front of him, above his head, slamming down with the weight of a mountain. Anyone hit by the brick would be instantly crushed into a bloody paste.

Sharky realized this was Luke, the expert of Fiend races.

But he didn’t care about the golden brick, just with the fire, the brick started melting and soon it fell on the ground.

The black-robed person was clearly shocked. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Sharky with his slow steps was arriving towards them.

But he found that the air around him had suddenly become incredibly cold. A layer of frost instantly covered his entire body. In the blink of an eye, he was frozen in a block of ice.

The other black robed individuals all looked at that white patterned black robed individual when they saw this scene. After all, everyone else’s methods failed, yet he succeeded as soon as he attacked.

That white patterned black robed man had his hands behind his back. There was immediately a feeling of proudness that surged within him.

He was just about to say something when his expression changed a bit. He suddenly raised his head towards that frozen ice chunk.

A trace of redness suddenly appeared from that entirely white chunk of ice. Then, that ice’s surface began to crack. A blazing flame erupted from inside, instantly blasting that ice to pieces.

"So, this is all you guys have," Sharky asked, looking towards them.

At the same time, due to the fire, they saw who he was.

After realizing he was Duke Cedric, they shouted a single word, "Run."

And then they soon started running outside.

At the same time, countless guards rushed out from all directions to stop him.

But no one was able to stand in front of him, more than a few seconds.

"Little Chan, what is happening outside? Why is it so loud?" There was steam everywhere, as well as the smell of petals. Turns out a young lady was currently bathing here.

She seemed to have heard the activity and stood up from inside the bath. She wiped herself down with a towel while looking outside.

"Mam, our Merchant Group is in trouble, Sir Duke has found our Merchant Group is collided with Fiend races. We need to escape from here." She shouted.

"What?" Hearing this girl quickly dressed up, and came out.

After coming out she collided with Sharky.

"Sir Duke Cedric," She didn’t know what to say in this situation.

"Why are you here?" Sharky asks, looking at her, she is Tanya, and just because of her, the Duke Cedric has stopped himself from investigating the Daniel Merchant Group.

But today was not Duke Cedric, he was Sharky, he had to prepare for something else, so he didn’t care about Tanya’s day.