The Growth of a Titan
Chapter 113- A Murder Mystery

Chapter 113: Chapter 113- A Murder Mystery

"My name is Su Moon, the greatest Rune Deity in Alvian. If you’re reading this then that means I was murdered in my own Palace. However, as a cautious person, I created a Grand Formation Array around my Palace so if I were to ever be killed then no one could escape through the teleportation doorway. But if you are a visitor that means you are also trapped with no way out. The only way to leave is to catch the culprit, kill him, and then use his blood to open the Grand Formation Array. However, you only have two chances to open the Grand Formation or else it will close permanently. As a reward for avenging me, you will obtain my full Legacy Inheritance..."

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Sol felt the space around him distort and before he knew it, he appeared in a dark void. He looked around confused before he stood up and called out.

"Brother Yoon-Jae?"

Sol heard his voice echo in the darkness but as he waited, no response came.

Sol started to get slightly nervous.

This darkness was unsettling, and it was too eerily silent.

"Little Zeel?"

Sol called for Little Zeel this time and he tried to move forward. As he did, he placed his hands in front of him to feel if anything was around him.

After walking for some time, calling for Yoon-Jae and Little Zeel, Sol wondered if something had happened to them.

Thud.

Sol suddenly bumped into something.

His hands grasp a fabric material and as he moved it up and down, Sol felt that it was a person facing away from him.

Sol was startled at first, but he then called out.

"Brother Yoon-Jae, is that you?"

"..."

Sol didn’t get a response from this person, and this caused chills to go down his spine.

Was it a ghost or something?

However, just as Sol was about to freak out, Yoon-Jae’s voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Sol, are you there?"

Sol spun around and saw a small flicker of light. The light dimly lit the area and Yoon-Jae’s face was seen.

The light was a small fire on Yoon-Jae’s palm.

"Brother Yoon-Jae? If you’re here, then... then who is this?"

Sol looked back around and immediately retreated.

"Who are you talking about?"

Yoon-Jae came up to Sol and shone the small fire forward, but nothing was there.

Seeing this, Sol felt his scalp tingle.

"S-Someone was just there Brother Yoon-Jae, it must have been a ghost."

Yoon-Jae gave Sol a skeptical look while Little Zeel suddenly leaped out of his hand and onto Sol’s head.

"Let’s go, I found a door this way."

Sol could tell Yoon-Jae didn’t believe him, but he could have sworn he felt someone standing there.

After thinking for a moment, Sol thought of using his Heavenly Eyes.

"Sol, what are you doing? Hurry up!"

Sol paused using his Heavenly Eyes, and hurry to follow Yoon-Jae.

The both of them walked for a few minutes before they came upon a door.

It was strange.

A single wooden door was just sitting here in this dark void?

Something about this setup made the two feel creeped out.

"Are we entering?"

Sol asked.

"Do we have a choice? We can wander around in this dark void to find another way out if you want to."

Sol thought about that ghost he touched before, and his heart let out a fearful thud.

"Ah, never mind, let’s enter."

Sol didn’t hesitate to grab the door handle and swung it open. Immediately, a bright golden light blinded the two of them.

After this golden light faded away, Sol and Yoon-Jae regained their sights to realize they were no longer in the dark void, but inside a room.

This room was about forty square meters. There were two windows to the side and a single door that probably led out of the room.

Several bookshelves were in the corners completely over-stacked with books. With this scene, rather than a normal room, this looked more like an office.

Luxurious pieces of furniture that would make one feel this was the office of someone wealthy also littered the place.

However, furniture wasn’t the only thing that littered this office, dead bodies were also in the room.

Three to be exact.

Sol had instinctively recreated the room to how it was supposed to be when he first entered, but in truth, it wasn’t like what was described.

The bookshelves were on the ground broken. The books they contain were scattered around the room.

The walls were cracked and damaged as if an intense fight had occurred in this confined space.

The excellently crafted pieces of furniture were on the ground close to the wall, broken; like they had been blown over and smashed against it.

Yoon-Jae and Sol stood where they were and took all of this in.

Sol was on the left and he turned his head slightly to see the main desk in this office.

A man dressed in fancy golden robes was lying flat on top of this desk. A fountain of blood was seen gushing from the man’s neck and pooling under his bare feet.

However, this man’s blood was strangely golden in color.

He was a cultivator, and judging from the suppressive aura he was releasing despite already being dead, Sol concluded this man’s cultivation was beyond something he could imagine.

"Where are we? How did we appear in this place?"

Yoon-Jae asked as he looked down at their clothes. It was different, it was some coarse gray rags that barely covered their bodies instead of their yellow robes.

Yoon-Jae immediately stepped forward to look around the office.

Sol didn’t follow him immediately but turned to look behind him.

He saw that the door they came through had disappeared. It was now just a plain wall with a cracked mural of a dragon on it.

Sol frowned before he carried Little Zeel on his head and followed behind Yoon-Jae, who had stopped to look at the remaining two bodies that were in the middle of the office.

They were releasing suppressive auras as well that prevented them from approaching too closely.

"Do you realize something?"

Yoon-Jae asked with a solemn expression.

Sol nodded as he came up to look at the bodies as well.

"They were killed just a few minutes ago."

Just the fact that their cultivation aura was dwindling by the second was evidence of this.

Sol turned and walked towards the door.

He wanted to leave to see what this place was like outside, but as soon as his hands touched the door handle blue runes spread from the handle to cover the entire room. The bookshelves, the walls, and the two windows.

After this, a bright white light then engulfs the room and words appeared, floating in the middle of the office.

A rune circle also appeared on the ground below these words.

Yoon-Jae and Sol went on high alert, but as they read the words that appeared, their hearts dropped to the pit of their stomachs.

"What is this? He wants us to solve his murder to escape?"

Sol let go of the door handle and step back into the room to look at the words more closely.

After some time, he looked at the man who was dead at the desk.

"Do you think this person is Su Moon?"

"Huh? Who cares!? We need to leave this place!"

Yoon-Jae yelled and then bolted for the door.

He swung it open and then sprinted outside.

"But it says we can’t leave until we find who killed him."

Sol said but Yoon-Jae had already left the office.

After reading the words again, Sol’s eyes flickered, and he zoned in on the last sentence.

"Legacy Inheritance? Then is this some sort of test to obtain it, or is this all real and we were just teleported here?"

Sol couldn’t answer that question.

The scent of blood coming from the corpses along with their suppressive auras, the sunlight shining through the windows...

It all seemed too real.

But if this was indeed some test for a Legacy Inheritance, which Sol was more incline to believe, then he would have to assume this place was created using Formation Arrays.

"What kind of ability would someone need to possess to create such a realistic setting using Formation Arrays? Is Master even capable of something like this?"

Sol turned his attention to the two dead bodies in the center of the office.

One was a young man in his mid to late twenties. He was quite handsome, and judging from his clothes that was similar to the man at the desk, he must be related to him.

Sol glance at the man at the desk.

He was middle-aged and he had a striking resemblance to the young man.

Sol rubbed his chin.

"Father and son?"

This was Sol’s theory for now. He then moved his attention to the second person next to the young man.

"Hm?"

Sol immediately noticed something... this person was holding a bloody golden dagger.

’Mystery solved?’