Rise of the Blood Sovereign

Chapter 99 The Poison Experts and the Investigation

99 The Poison Experts and the Investigation

Lyle and the others made their way to the busy streets of Orsvald.

The city was as bustling as always, even though there was a clear change in the atmosphere of the city thanks to the events of last night.

A major noble house in the city had been wiped out, and the people of the city still had no idea what had happened. Only those in power knew the whole story and how Morn simply arrived at dinner before using some sort of poison that exploded into a poisonous cloud that killed everyone that was inside the room.

Experts were called over to determine what poison was used, but even those that were well-proficient in the arts of poison couldn't tell what it was from the cloud. If they had a bit of the original vial and its contents, then it would have been much easier, but most of the poison had already dissipated when they arrived, leading to many of them scratching their heads as to what was used.

Even though they were well-proficient in the arts and could be called experts, the most powerful amongst them was a fledging Golden Knight while the others were all Silver Knights.

For them to easily identify a poison that was concocted by an archmage that had the element of poison was nearly impossible. Even if they had the original vial, it would still pose a challenge as, unlike Lyle, they didn't have all the manuscripts that Ilya had left that talked in great detail about the poisons.

Lyle was only able to identify the vials thanks to the knowledge he gained from the beginner-level book of poisons and the manuscripts. With the knowledge he had, and the detailed descriptions of the many poisons from that manuscript, he was able to identify many of the poisons and how they worked, otherwise he would have been completely lost as to what poison did what as well.

The poisonous cloud lasted for hours before fully dissipating.

The experts took some blood samples from the victims before leaving the mansion and letting the servants take the bodies as they had come to the conclusion that the area and the bodies were now safe.

The poison had done its job and had completely disappeared, not leaving a single trace in the area. They hoped that they could identify just what had happened by doing tests on the blood they had gotten, but they had wished to do a full autopsy on the bodies, only to be rejected by the leaders of the guards of the mansion.

They were allowed to take the bodies of the servants and guards, plus Morn, but the other bodies were to be left alone.

The servants of the mansion were to take the bodies of the deceased servants and guards and place them inside special carriages the experts had brought with them. After that, the experts would all go together to a lab prepared by the Rain family in order to do further testing.

But Olman was different, he was the one that always managed the thugs and their actions, so all of them knew of his face. Some even thought he was the true leader of the organization, not Morn who many had only briefly seen a couple of times when he would enter and leave the mansion.

Even though some didn't know who he was, the aura around him was strange and powerful enough to make them afraid merely by looking at him, which led to none daring to stand in his way.

Upon going to where the many weapon stores in the city, Lyle entered one he was familiar with.

He entered with all three of his servants and flashed the stone to the store clerk, letting him know who he was since the store was one of a couple that was directly connected with the organization.

He and the other three all entered through a hidden door before another clerk came to them and showed them the many weapons inside.

The hidden store inside was larger and held more weapons than the one outside. It was merely a front, but there were still some good weapons to be found there.

Inside, however, the quantity and quality of the weapons were higher, so Lyle brought his men to browse and pick a weapon for themselves.

Adam already had a weapon and armor that was suitable for him, so there was no need to buy him anything new. Even though buying them new weapons and armor with every Tier they managed to reach was going to cost Lyle more than simply buying them higher quality weapons that they could use later on, it was very important for him to do so since overly relying on powerful weapons and armor was simply going to be detrimental to their growth.

He also needed to go to another store after this one in order to change the look of four of the ten armor sets he had gotten from stealing the contents of the carriage.

The armor of the red guards of the young duke was simply too eye-catching and recognizable, so Lyle needed to change that in order not to be found out by anyone.

He would then give them to Adam and the other two, but with strict orders to only use them when their lives were in grave danger. The armor was different from those that they had now and it would actually be bound to them.

Only after their deaths could someone else wear them, and the ones that the merchant had managed to get were all in storage and had not been used by anyone in the past, they were there because Orsted wanted to get more guards in the future, but before he was able to do so, he was killed by Lyle.