Epic Of The Demonic Sage

"Asher, are you alright?" Countess Lita grabbed her son's face and checked him.

"I'm alright, mother." Lucius reassured her.

"No, how could you be okay? Someone just attacked you in your room." Countess Lita was closed to tears as she hugged him. "I'm just glad that you're unharmed. But are you actually hurt anywhere?"

"Put out the fire now." Kiana instructed some of the servants and guards with them to take care of the fire burning within Asher's room at once.

"And what do we do this with this one, ma'am?" one of the guards glanced at the assassin on the floor.

"Leave that one be, I'll take care of it myself," Lucius said. "Or ensure that he remains unconscious, though I expect that he'll stay that way for quite some time."

If Lucius wanted to, he could have simply left the assassin's body in the fire and nobody in the Inanis household would have taken a second look and simply allowed it to burn.

However, Lucius wanted to keep the man alive in order to have answers pulled out of him.

"This man…!" Countess Lita turned to look at the body, and while it might have made a noble lady nauseous to see a badly burnt body, she instead felt furious.

"Are we sure that he's the only one who attacked Asher?" Kiana asked, seething and looking around the corridor, almost as if daring any other assassin to reveal themselves. "We need to take care of this immediately Madam."

"Yes, there's no way that a single assassin can simply make his way here without any help. Send the rest of our guards in the city." Countess Lita agreed and turned to Lucius. "Are you really not injured? Let's still call for Healer Delia and anyone else available. I need a messenger too, we have to let your father know about this at once."

"I'm safe now, I've managed to protect myself as you can see." Lucius said and did his best to calm down the Countess and Kiana's wrath.

However, they were more or less still vindicative about the events and continued to order the servants and guards to accomplish their tasks.

"This is still unacceptable! I want this man executed." Countess Lita fumed. "These people dare think that they can simply trespass into the Inanis mansion without any consequences? Capture everyone that's suspicious!"

"I'll have someone come over to Blind Crow's tavern and get information from Leif too." Kiana furiously said to Lucius. "If there's anyone who might know a thing or two, there's no doubt that he'll be able to help."

"Do you think he'd really do something like that?" Lucius raised a brow, knowing how criminals worked in the comforts of his tavern.

"If he doesn't want to get associated with them, then it's best for him to cooperate." Kiana's gaze hardened. "This is beyond acceptable. This is an attempt at your life, Asher and that is the gravest of crimes."

It didn't take too long for the entire city of Inanis to go on high alert.

Everyone from the most humble of its citizens to its criminals quickly caught wind of the news and the sight of guards roaming across the streets at the late hour was no laughing matter.

Anyone who acted suspiciously was quickly arrested alongside those individuals with even the smallest of criminal records and were brought into the prisons.

When someone actually came to the Blind Crow tavern, Leif personally went out at once and had a list of people with him.

"You…" one of the guards looked suspiciously at the tavern owner. It was more or less an open secret that the Blind Crow tavern truly turned a blind eye to its criminals.

"I believe that this will be helpful in identifying folks who might have been linked with the incident." Leif said.

Even without Kiana prompting Leif to give up information, the tavern owner already took it upon himself to cooperate with the Inanis guards.

This was a serious matter and Leif could only hope that no one who worked on the assassination was linked with him.

As Lucius knew, Leif was fine with criminals working in his tavern as they paid him heftily for a place to operate their dealings, but the assassination of a noble?

Much less the noble of their city was something that shouldn't have been attempted at all.

This sudden event somehow reminded the people of the city of the time before the Priest of Church of Duran went by.

A lot of criminals were swept up during that period coming to the priest's arrival, but compared to before, the Inanis family's guards literally purged the city of its criminals.

Of course, to those criminals who were able to notice that the people were alarmed and in a state of distress, a number of them immediately went on the run or went into hiding.

This situation made the people of the city tense, and yet they were also relieved that the city of Inanis became a lot safer due to the guards rounding up all the criminals.

Although, it was still a terrible event for people who learned why the Inanis guards roamed the streets.

The people of the city were loyal to the Inanis family and to those who were in the know, it was unacceptable to learn that the heir to the Inanis name had nearly been assassinated.

A lot of people were furious, and the guards only spent an entire day to be rid of the criminals.

Meanwhile, in that same span of time, Count Gabriel was able to receive word from a messenger that the Inanis Family, and most importantly, his son was attacked.

This prompted the Count of Inanis to simply rush back home, to where he was needed by his family.

As all these things happened in the background, Lucius calmed down Lita and Kiana. When they were more receptive to listen, he informed them of his intentions.

"I will be getting all the answers that we need from this assassin."

Lucius then took the unconscious assassin with him to the laboratory.