When Did I Become An Artifact Dealer?!
Chapter 113 - 114: Hal’s Uncle

Chapter 113: Chapter 114: Hal’s Uncle

The result of the investigation is that she jumped off the building by herself. There is CCTV footage showing her walking up to the rooftop, then standing at the edge and jumping.

"Someone must have instigated her to do it! How could she do that? My sister is not suicidal!"Cail’s classmates couldn’t accept the results. Her mother was holding her, crying as their father talked to the school heads.

Nosy people were crowding near the office. The girl’s body was now sent to the hospital for an autopsy. Cail was also listening. He had been lurking in the corner when they took the girl’s body. He realized that the body also had high concentrations of void energy, much higher than his sister’s.

Cail didn’t see a glow that indicated the two of them were carrying artifacts, but the fact that they had traces of void energy meant they had encountered it before.

He saw Auren and Mr. Quill also lurking around. He wondered what they had discovered.

...

Auren and Mr. Quill arrived at the morgue. They could also sense the void energy on the corpse. They asked for a special pass to examine the dead body and discovered something.

"The highest concentration of void energy is in her brain, meaning that she could have been hallucinating or hearing things for a while now," Mr. Quill said as he took off his gloves. "Based on the reports, it’s true that the victim did suffer some kind of mental disturbance a while ago. Hmm, maybe about a month before."

Auren wrote down what Mr. Quill said.

"Could this be linked to the artifact that we are looking for?"

"Could be. But why do students in this school have suspicious backgrounds?"

Mr. Quill was having a headache scaling down people who could have been the culprit.

"Based on the testimonies, the victim didn’t have enemies. She was described as someone who is very kind, gentle, and smart. She was popular in a good way."

Auren had a different idea."Could it be driven by envy?"

Possible. Since someone outstanding could attract hatred even though Thu did nothing wrong.

"We have no idea for now. The only lead we have is that the girl had been gifted a charm bracelet. The bracelet was found inside her bag, and aside from her brain, the bracelet held the highest concentration of void energy among the things she had."In Mr. Quill’s hand was a bracelet wrapped in a sealed plastic bag.

"As for where it came from, we have no idea. But based on what we gathered, the eldest sister also had one. We couldn’t ask her as of now," Mr. Quill said as he opened the plastic bag. Holding the bracelet in his hand, it was covered in purple fog.

"The attribute of the void energy is psychic. It matches one of the missing artifacts."

Putting the bracelet back in the plastic bag, he tossed it to Auren.

Auren caught it."What should we do, sir?"

"Just lurk around the school."That was their only option now. Then he asked for a follow-up."How is your ’getting to know’ Jael’s friends going?"

Awkwardness was evident on Auren’s face."Sir... no progress so far."

Mr. Quill didn’t think much of it."Just take it slow. There are people monitoring Jael’s condition, and he seems to be worsening."

Then remembering who was the leader of that cult, he frowned."What is the Chairman of VRA thinking, letting that psycho run around?"

Nothing is more painful than seeing a lawless man disturb the order, but being unable to do anything because he is on the ’good side.’

The Hollow Accord specializes in summoning. Everyone had no idea what they were trying to summon, but they had been doing questionable stuff for many years now. They are not an organization, but a cult.

"Whatever was planted inside student Jael is not a good thing." Mr. Quill was sure of that.

Now, Jael is like a pot of soil, nurturing the bloodsucker inside him.

It was silent as they put back the equipment inside.

"The academy’s vacation starts tomorrow, sir," Auren randomly said. He was dying of envy."But I’m still here toiling away at school."

Mr. Quill laughed."Well, at least you won’t have night classes anymore."

Auren looked like he was about to give up every time he arrived at the academy. Although his ordinary day school was not exhausting, who wants to face teachers 24 hours a day?

"Well, I think they’d be wrecking chaos now. I heard Hal’s team seemed to have an interest in the underground," Auren recalled what the talkative Neris told him.

"Why is that? Did the auction they attended a while ago awaken some kind of interest in them? Then they better be careful. In the underground, even ordinary people have the ability to kill weak void users."Mr. Quill remembered when they were preparing for the tournament.

Auren tsked."They’ll be fine. Hal’s parents are ascendants and he is their only child. I’m sure he’s armed to the teeth with protection."

Then his desire to gossip grew."His uncle, the Blue Beard, seems to plan to give him his inheritance. Blue Beard’s daughter is missing, and he doesn’t have any living family left. I guess instead of letting the council benefit from his legacy, he’d rather give it to his nephew."

Hearing about Blue Beard’s daughter, Mr. Quill went silent.That was a very sensitive topic on the other side. Talking about that wouldn’t just irritate the Blue Beard, but also the crazy Lord Yrin.

Blue Beard’s daughter had been a sore spot.

It wasn’t just a missing person’s case but a testament to how ruthless and brutal the council was. Blue Beard had been serving them for many years only to end up being discarded.

It was chilling.

They were after his inheritance, so they planned her vanishing. It was an open secret. Yrin was collateral, but the Blue Beard also hated him. He hated the council and Yrin.

Now that he was old and dying, Mr. Quill believed he would give his inheritance to Hal—unless something unexpected happened and his daughter was found.

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