Two pearl white hands, a long black hair and a beautiful face. A black robe with red lines and a cloak with a huge eye.

These clothes clearly given a normal person one indication. Shes someone you dont want get involved with.

But for our duo these were clear signs that shes the person they waiting for. Of course the huge mana pressure she emited was already a dead giveaway who she is.

The well worn, battle hardened mage patrol stepped forward.

-"Welcome to the City of Prosperity Miss Thousand Eyes"

-"Thank you Boyd. I also would like to offer my greetings to Miss Sierra. You can call me Clarissa" Smiled the woman.

Boyd eyes widened after he heard his name mentioned. While Sierra only furrowed her brow slightly.

-"Should say expected from someone who works for the "information" guild."

-"Miss Sierra please properly refer to us as Cloak. We dont like that nickname. It feels degrading like we only good enough to gather information."

-"Sure,sure just lets get going we have a bothersome killer to catch."

-"Okay,okay. I would like to see the crime scenes first."

4 hours later

-"So Miss Thousand-Eyes found any clue to our culprit?"

-"Yes and no" said the woman as he was still looking around the last crime scene.

-"Please explain"

-"Well based on the energy residues, the one who killed the beasts were not human ,but an elemental or spirit. Its clearly a work of a summon, or a contracted familiar. Natural spirits and elementals would not hide their energy this much and they wouldnt be this efficient in killing. I meant as the ones who would hunt for these monsters. Of course there are high tier elementals that would able to do same, but they would have a whole domain and not do this in a slum of a city."

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-"We already checked every person who had enough mana to do something like this. If theres nothing else we are still in the same place." Answered Boyd

-"Impossible for you to detect him.The summon's energy type is darkness.It highly boost stealth and concealment spells. The mage himself also high tier if he can summon or contract such monster."

The Guard Captain looked at both then turned to the woman.

-"So whats the next step?"

-"Well I would say setting up a magic array over the slums but considering Im a foreign mage in this city I wont have the premission.So I send out my familiars. They way more sensitive to magic energy and darkness attribute than your mage patrols.With a fresh scene where the enegy still quite active I can get some more clues."

2km away

In a worn down shop named "Rat's glue" the 'young' Mordred was looking at the ceiling.

His residence was on the 2nd floor.Just below the roof. The walls were gray and crumbling. The room had almost nothing in it. A small bed and a table with a stool. Mordred was lying on the bed currently. The bed looked like it was only standing due to god's will and a small wind would make it crumble anytime.

Mordred was still in his clothes. The clothes were quite unusual for someone in the slums. A black leather boots, a black pants and a blue hoodie.Frist of all it was already strange seeing someone with a black leather boots. Even if someone had boots in the slums it was mostly brown.The surrounding wood animals deers,bears and rabbits all had brown colored leather. If it was a black leather it was dyed or made from some other animals leather. Theres no way someone in the slums would able to buy something like this.Well it could be stolen but most people would not walk around with something stolen.They would sell it as fast as possible for some food.

Then the hoodie. Blue was even a rarer color. It was somewhat noble color, used by mages and their patrols, noble personal guards.So Mordred clothes always stood out in the crowd. It was helping they all looked old and aged clothes.The hoodie had some patching done with yellow in two places. But well clothes werent the only thing that stood out on Mordred. His black hair with a tinge of red. The unusually vibrant green eyes and his strange smooth face.

-"So seems we have another visitor. Did not expected they call another 7th tier mage into the slums just because of us."

-"Eh, quite problematic. I was getting used to eating again. Even though most of the time the foods taste was trash at least it was something to eat. Going back to starving again is not nice."

-"Well its already too late. If we would have left the city without things getting this far then would be no problem. Now if we leave then we indirectly going to say 'Im the culprit'. So the only choice left is that you gotta starve a little. When this circus is done in the city we can leave without problem."

-"Well yea sure. Not like it matters to me. A month or five minutes for me its almost the same thing.But I think you also starting to understand this, Right kid?"

-"Somewhat yes."

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