Anton and his family and friends busied themselves with lunch when Colin and Frederick returned with a rather huge amount of dishes. Apparently, one of the famous restaurants nearby cooked a lot of dishes but their usual clientele did not come in.

“I know that place. It usually serves the customers from these suites and more than likely, the families or groups of people who were staying in our hallway are all in the know about the murders that happened so they should be staying in their rooms right now,” Antonia said.

“They could still do what we did, have someone deliver the food to them,” Anton said and Antonia just shrugged.

There could be a lot of reasons why the restaurant business was impacted but one thing they know for sure is that it was related to the crime that happened and the businesses nearby which catered to the very rich would probably be affected. Anton just shrugged and said “More for us then” which made Antonia, Lucia, Walter, and Phillip laugh but Anders frowned at his son.

Anton gestured at his father that he was sorry about the comment since it was indeed insensitive.

After lunch, everyone stayed to talk about the crime that happened but since they all knew next to nothing, that conversation went nowhere. Antonia decided to continue the talks about the Cosplay Event and those who were involved agreed with her since everyone wanted to be busy while waiting for information about the crime and they all knew that they would not be able to concentrate on watching movies or television shows. The mages continued their magic practice. Unfortunately for Devon and Phillip, they were the only ones with nothing to do and they couldn’t leave since the team that was investigating the crime still needed to talk to them.

The fact that the crime happened next door, even with their influence from being friends with Antonia who was the niece of the owner of the ship, and for being the owners of the cinema, they all still needed to be interviewed.

Anton went to his room and entered his Diablo II system to continue leveling up his Paladin Character but he chose to play the screen option instead of entering the game virtually. After a couple of hours, he heard people talking outside his room so he quickly checked his level and his Paladin leveled up twice, he exited the game and joined his family in the living room.

He saw that his father and the others were speaking to several mages. Frederick whispered to him that the one leading the mages was a Supreme Wizard called Supreme Adinor. When the Supreme Wizard saw him, he stopped his conversation with Anders and headed directly to him.

“Archmage Sunder, I’m Adinor, the Supreme Mage handling this case. Can I speak with you?”

Anton told the supreme mage that of course, it was all right to speak with him and invited him to sit on the couch. Luckily the Supreme Mage was agreeable enough to allow everyone to listen in and that comforted Anton a bit since that meant that they were not considering anyone in their group as suspects.

Everyone ignored the fact that the Supreme Wizard was a little rude to Anton’s father since they all knew that in the wizardry circle, the most important people were the most powerful mages.

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The Supreme Wizard told Anton that the crime was upgraded to him because there was actually another family that was victimized and it happened only a couple hours ago. When they learned that it happened to one of the rooms that were rented by middle-income families, everyone was surprised since from what they knew, those locations were full of people, and anything extraordinary that would happen there would be noticed by a lot of people.

Selena, Ander’s lover, was highly alarmed when they learned further that the location was near where Norma and Belue lived. Anton saw her eyes looking at his father pleadingly and Anders nodded.

The crime was very mysterious. It was not particularly gruesome since apparently, all the victims looked like they just died in their sleep.

“Normally, a crime like this is easy to solve because we do have spells that could usually pinpoint the murderers easily but right now, they were eluding us. That meant that they have power so please make sure that your family is protected since we don’t know the main reason for the crime, anyone could be targeted,” The Supreme Wizard Adinor said.

The next part was Anton just answering routine questions and the rest of the members of the family were asked the same things. The Supreme Wizard and the other mages in his team were surprised to learn that there were a lot of novice mages in the family it made Anton nervous when he saw the Supreme Wizard’s curiosity when he learned that Walter was also trying to become a mage under Anton’s family. Walter was a well-known person on the ship but everyone knew that the famous four were untalented in wizardry.

The interview for the whole family took a couple of hours and Anton was a little impressed at the Supreme Wizard Adinor’s patience. Normally, high-ranking wizards were full of pride and wouldn’t bother for too long on these kinds of things so he didn’t know if it was because of Adinor’s personality or they truly attached great importance to this crime.

When Adinor and his group left, Anton summoned all of his Dire Wolves and Ravens so they could guard everyone in the family all day. He then reiterated that if they wanted to leave the suite, they would need to bring at least a couple of wolves for protection.

Anton was so glad that the summoned animals did not smell since if they did, the suite would have smelled like rank.

Anders and Selena immediately informed everyone that they would go out to look for Norma and Belue and invite them to live in the suite and since Anton’s father was still the patriarch of the family and there were extra rooms anyway, no one complained.

Anna did receive a knock on the head and Anton’s laughter when she asked their father if they were his girlfriends as well.

Anton wanted to go out as well so he could warn his other friends about the situation. He didn’t bring any of the summoned animals since he could protect himself. When he arrived at the deck where he usually met with Torun and the others, unfortunately, they were not there so he summoned one of his Ravens who promptly appeared near him and commanded it to look for them.

He didn’t know if the Raven could do it but then again, there’s nothing wrong in trying. The Raven flew away and surprisingly after around ten minutes, it returned together with Torun, Blake, Andrea, Soren, and his group. Apparently, Soren and his gang lived near Torun’s place on the ship.

“Anton! We saw a huge Raven flying and when it approached us, we knew that it was looking for us since it actually landed on my head!” Torun said indignantly.

“We remembered that if you want to find us, you’re going to send an animal to us!” Andrea said excitedly.

Anton learned that his friends’ families were excited to learn that their children befriended an archmage and they were very surprised when they learned that Anton was of the same age as them.

“Can we go somewhere private? I have important news to tell all of you,” Anton asked his new friends and they all invited him to a nearby tavern-like establishment where they usually hang out since it was cheap and the owner allowed them to stay in the place for hours without bothering them.