He Became A Monstrous Genius After Obtaining A Time Dilation Artifact-Chapter 446. Whispers

"Y-es sir. Someone is trying to take my life, sir?"

"Where is he?"

The moment Major Seth spoke was when it hit him.

Myestro was lost for words.

Kailen laughed so much in his room as he observed everything through the eyes of Hound 3 that he almost choked on his saliva.

"From his expression, it looks like his brain is now working properly," Kailen said.

As for Myestro, he didn’t know what to say to the major.

That’s right.

Did he even have any obvious proof that someone was trying to take his life?

He couldn’t just open his mouth and mention that Kailen Darkhaven was trying to kill him, right?

On further thought, he was the one who challenged Kailen Darkhaven in the first place—and Kailen Darkhaven didn’t show up.

If he mentioned Kailen’s name without any proof, it would even sound like he was trying to falsely accuse Kailen Darkhaven to get back at him because Kailen refused his challenge.

His gut told him that the person responsible for the voice he heard in his head in his room was Kailen Darkhaven.

But...

He didn’t have any visible proof.

The major sighed.

"You are hereby demoted to the level of a private since you decided to barge into the office of a superior and senselessly waste my time."

On hearing these words, Myestro felt like everything in him was falling apart.

He was about to open his mouth to challenge the major when he saw the cold expression on Major Seth’s face.

He quietly nodded.

"Yes, sir."

Then he left the office.

"What’s wrong with some recruits these days. No respect for the elderly."

The major sighed, then went about his duties.

As for Kailen, he had had enough fun with his prey.

First, from the words of the bastard in his room, the Xin Li Training Hall was behind this attempt to get rid of him.

He realized his deduction about the Xin Li Training Hall possibly not behind this bastard’s actions was wrong.

They were the ones who ordered him to come after Kailen, although Myestro had been impulsive in his execution.

Kailen had just developed a perfect plan in mind to get rid of the Xin Li Training Hall—one that didn’t even require him stepping in directly.

As a matter of fact, he was not powerful enough to step in, and he didn’t even want to get involved in the matters of the training halls.

So this plan he was thinking of was perfect.

As for this bastard, there was no need to kill him, wait till he got to the galactic level and had shadow slots before he turned him into a shadow creature for confirmation on whether or not the Xin Li Training Hall was behind the attempt to kill him, since Kailen had already gotten the confirmation from his words.

He simply had to be discarded.

As Myestro went back to his building in extreme shock and emotional breakdown, he had completely forgotten about everything that had ensued between him and the voice he presumed was from Kailen Darkhaven in his room.

All he was thinking about was how his military career had come to an end because of his own stupidity.

The moment he entered his room, he slumped down onto the bed in the bedroom with a lifeless expression in his eyes.

"Ahahahahahahahahha..."

He laughed madly.

Completely broken.

"All the pain, all the sweat and toil... the gruesome missions—wasted..."

"Fuck... fuck... fuck... fuck... fuck...!"

Then it occurred to him.

Kailen Darkhaven...

"First my brother had to die because of him... then I lost my position as a captain because of him... why!! Why... why... why!!!!!"

"He must die... he must die... he must die!!!"

Suddenly, he heard a bored sigh in his head.

"Why do people all have to come looking for trouble from me?"

The voice was not the voice of Kailen Darkhaven—but the tone, the mannerism...

It was definitely Kailen Darkhaven masking his voice with a different tone.

This was what he presumed Kailen’s words through Hound 3’s voice to be.

Before he could even say anything, the shadow hound—veiled completely—swiftly choked him at the neck with a poison needle.

It melted and seeped into his being, draining him of his universe energy reserves, turning him into a non-awakener—

And killing him.

He died with eyes full of regret, pain, and shock.

He had messed with the wrong person.

And paid the price for his actions.

Kailen didn’t take a look at the dead former human captain’s body.

"Excellent work, Hound 3."

"Pleasure, my Lord. Should I extract the poison from his dead body?"

"No. Let it remain. It will serve a purpose tomorrow morning."

"Yes, my Lord."

The shadow hound returned to the shadow expanse as if he had never been in the room in the first place.

As for Kailen, his eyes glinted with calm ruthlessness in his room as he made a decision.

It was time to initiate the plan to get rid of the Xin Li Training Hall.

****

Military Camp 322 was in an uproar the next morning.

"They say he was found dead in his room."

"Yes. According to the official news, he was demoted to the rank of a private for unnecessarily barging into the office of Major Seth."

"Perhaps the news of his demotion was extremely shocking and he committed suicide. I would have lost my mind if I were him."

"Yeah, I know. But was he so weak emotionally that he’d kill himself?"

"Who knows. Horrors of war do crazy things to the psyche."

"True."

"There were no traces of an assassination. The extremely potent rune-inscribed cameras even failed to detect the presence of anyone in the room. From what the publicly announced reports are saying, the most likely cause is suicide."

"Quick—look. The autopsy results have been made public?"

"Yeah?"

"Take a look."

"It states that he was poisoned and became a crippled awakener in the process of the poisoning before he died?"

"How is this possible?"

"If so, then how was no one detected to have killed him?"

"Who knows. The higher-ups are saying we should all be on alert since the killer was able to remain undetected in such a high-surveillance environment."

"Wait... does this not sound like some sort of cycle repeating itself?"

"What?" 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

"Do you remember when Kailen Darkhaven killed Enna Harker, destroyed the Harkers, Darkhavens, the Arcane Empowerment Sect? Killed Rango Revearson in Atlantis?"

"Are you saying..."

"Think about it. This fellow challenged Kailen Darkhaven, dies that same evening, no one is able to physically detect and prove the cause of his death, but there’s poison detected? I don’t know about you guys, but I think he’s the suspect."

"Even if he is, what can the higher-ups do to him? It’s not like there’s proof of him being the murderer, right?"

"Exactly. What a cunning and ruthless operative."

"Are you even sure it’s him?"

"Are you blind? Of course it is. I knew he was planning something when he didn’t show up for the challenge. Didn’t I tell you?"

"Tsk!"

Similar conversations were happening across Camp 322—so much so that it spread to various camps.

The whispers of Kailen Darkhaven being the murderer and suspect became a key theme in the conversations.

***

Meanwhile, in Major Seth’s office...