The Growth of a Titan
Chapter 119- Blank

Chapter 119: Chapter 119- Blank

Sol lowered his head and continued reading the book.

The entries were sporadic, it seems she only wrote in this journal when she felt overwhelmed with emotions she couldn’t voice to anyone.

Sol also found one key factor that puzzled him ever since he came here.

Why was the Palace so empty?

Only one servant was here along with the family?

From one of her entries, Sol discovered that this was Su Moon’s decision. It was to protect their family from assassination attempts.

Sol could tell the event of losing their child not only affected this woman but Su Moon as well; he became extremely protective.

As Sol was skipping through the journal, he came upon the last entry.

However, as Sol read the information his mind started to race with questions.

The entry spoke about how a new servant entered their Palace and she found him strange.

"As soon as he came, he said-"

That was it, that was the last line on the page. But as Sol kipped the page to see what came next, he saw that it was blank.

Sol frowned, and he ran his fingers across the seam of the book.

He felt that at least two pages were torn out.

Someone didn’t want him to read what came next.

This was it, this was the proof Sol needed to prove his theory.

But it was missing!

Sol turned and left the room to head back to the office.

He came up to the main desk and glance at the papers.

There were dates on the entries, and he wanted to know when this entry was made relative to what day the murders were committed.

Sol didn’t have to look for long and he soon found an unfinished document Su Moon was probably writing before he died.

The date was there at the top, and it reveal to Sol that the entry in the journal was written yesterday.

This servant laying here was likely the same one in the woman’s entry.

Sol’s brows furrowed as he thought about this new information.

However, his eyes soon focused on the paper that detailed the servant’s employment to this Palace. The date at the top said the same time as when the woman made here entry, but that wasn’t what Sol focused on, he focused on the part that was previously covered by the paper he took up.

At the top was his description, and the next section was his background which was once covered.

Sol read it and one thing stood out to him... where he came from prior to coming to the Palace.

"Peace Lake Village..."

Sol muttered the familiar village name under his breath.

When the Deity rescued his son, he found him alone with the Nian beast nowhere to be seen. Without questioning it he then brought him home.

However, who he brought home, or rather ’what’ he brought home... wasn’t his son.

Sol glance at the servant who was on the ground covered in blood.

"He’s Su Jin."

He then glance at the person who he thought was Su Jin.

"And that’s the Nian beast."

Sol’s theory was right, the murderer wasn’t the servant because he was Su Jin that survive and came to confront the Nian beast.

The true murderer was the Nian beast who disguised himself as Su Jin when he was younger.

However, a few things didn’t add up.

First of all, why did Su Jin have a different appearance?

Second, how was he still alive? Why didn’t the Nian beast kill him so his identity could never be revealed?

The first could be explained by the fact that the Nian beast’s ability to change into someone require getting a human’s face first and then swapping that appearance with Su Jin’s own.

The second could be explained simply by the fact that Su Jin was the son of a Deity, perhaps he had something from his father that protected him.

However, Sol could logically come up with theories to fix those holes, but the third thing that didn’t add up completely stumped him.

Why did Su Jin have the dagger that killed Su Moon, his father?

Wouldn’t it be logical that the Nian beast had it?

Sol walked over to the Nian best and Su Jin.

There Sol found the answer.

From the position of the Nian beast’s right hand as he was face down, it seems like he was holding something before he fell. And doing a few calculations of how he fell and where that object would roll off to, Sol saw that Su Jin’s hand was in that direction.

Sol’s face showed a weird expression.

Could coincidences be this absurd?

After the second victim was killed, the killer went from room to room to kill two more victims before returning to this office and succumbing to his own injuries. He then dropped beside the second victim, however, at the same time the murder weapon rolled into this second victim’s hand.

It was unbelievable but from how the golden dagger was position in Su Jin’s hand, Sol could slightly believe it.

And one thing that added evidence to this theory was the suppressive force from Su Jin.

If he was a servant he wouldn’t have such strong cultivation. It made sense Su Jin would be able to cultivate to this level that match his Father and the Nian beast after so many years.

Sol sighed.

"The only way to find out is to search this Nian beast."

Sol looked at the Nian beast.

If his theory was really true then the Nian beast would be the one to ripped out the pages of this journal. Those pages should be in his robes then.

However, the suppressive force from the Nian beast didn’t allow Sol to check.

Sol glanced at the words in the center of the room to see the amount of time they have until time ran out.

"Time remaining: 17: 09..."

After thinking for a moment and sensing how fast the suppressive aura around these three were fading away, Sol calculated that it would take a couple of hours until it diminish enough for him to search the Nian beast.

Sol smiled at that.

It looks like he had solve this murder mystery and he only did it in seven hours.

"Haha, the Deity who created this trial is underestimating me by giving me so much time. But I guess I still have to wait to confirm my theory."

Sol felt the nervousness of being stuck here, which he never addressed, fade away from his heart.

He followed all the clues and he successfully past this trial.

He hoped Yoon-Jae would come back soon so he could tell him the good news. Sol wondered where he was.

Still smiling, Sol walked over to a book that was on the ground and picked it up.

He wanted to read these books while he waited for the suppressive auras to fade away.

After blowing off the dirt on the cover of the book, Sol read the title aloud.

"The Alvian Realm’s History."

That was the name of the place they were supposedly transported to.

Sol flipped it open, wondering what kind of information this trial would place in a book like this.

Unlike the information Sol read in the woman’s room he believe to be real, this book would probably contain a fake historical account of a place that doesn’t exist.

However, as Sol flipped through it, he saw that the book was completely blank.

"Huh? Why is it blank?"

Sol was taken aback.