Chapter 163: A common man

While Azaroth was busy dealing with the Blue Lake Sect and then constructing multiple arrays and the Ice Palace for Tiana, his clone had finally reached the Walsh Dukedom's territory.

It took him nearly one whole week of flying to reach this territory.

After reaching the Walsh Dukedom's territory, he didn't walk to the mansion straight away. Instead, he decided to stay in the main city named Rashire.

Only when he has investigated the things could he form a plan to deal with the Walsh Dukedom.

However, a random individual wouldn't know of anything that occurred within Walsh Dukedom.

Thus, he changed his objective and tried to gather information about any other strange events that occurred in the city.

And it didn't take Edwin very long to find out some pieces of information.

He found out that an individual had suddenly gotten famous in Rashire City. It turned out that this man had captured a bandit camp and even found a hidden mine near the city.

This mine possessed three different kinds of minerals in large quantity. And these bandits had owned this mine and mined out the resources from it.

These bandits regularly conducted business in Rashire City, and they were considered honest and sincere businessmen. These people traded the resources with the businessmen in Rashire City and sold them at a very high price.

This was somewhat inconceivable since the mines were actually quite close to Rashire City, and their true cost was less than half of what they had been paying.

It was only when they were caught that the public saw their true face, which exploded the news about them.

Edwin read the name of the individual who had caught this entire gang. His name was Samuel Bennet.

It didn't take long for Edwin to find Samuel's house address.

Samuel was a 4 Star Warrior, but it didn't matter to Edwin. He could kill Samuel as easily as turning his palm.

It took a few hours for Samuel to return to his house.

These days, Samuel had been meeting a lot of high-end people. His prestige was growing with each passing day, and he was trying to make the most of it by grabbing the opportunity presented to him.

He knew that he wouldn't remain the highlight in everyone's eyes forever. He had to work hard to take complete advantage of this opportunity.

As he returned to his house, he expected his servants to greet him and ask him to take a bath before the dinner was prepared.

However, as he entered his house, what greeted him was a gloomy silence. He called out for his servant, but there was no response.

There was a frown on Samuel's face. He understood that someone had probably sneaked into his house and attacked his servants to make them unconscious.

This was a bit inconceivable for him to believe. His prestige had grown quite a bit, and many people knew he was a 4 Star Warrior.

For someone to have still made a move against him meant that the other party was definitely prepared. They probably had a 4 Star Warrior with them. Or maybe they had more than one.

Samuel wasn't scared, though. Now that he knew someone was targeting him, he was confident in becoming triumphant in this situation.

There had been times when the odds had been stacked against him, and he still won at that time. But now, he was in the dark while his enemies were in the light.

He could take his time to find his adversaries and form a plan to take care of them all.

However, just as he took another step forward, he felt a strong suppression act on him.

This was none other than Edwin's gravity suppression array.

He had left behind this gravity enhancement array at the entrance, activating when the target was in range.

Samuel had entered the range of the Gravity Enhancement Array by putting his foot on that spot, and he was immediately glued to the floor.

Edwin soon came down the stairs and stared at the fish that had been caught in his net.

"Greetings, Samuel. This is the first time we have met, but I have a couple of questions for you. I wonder if you are interested in answering me?" Edwin gave a cordial smile to Samuel.

As soon as Samuel saw that smile, he couldn't help but think how fake that smile was. Instead of a friendly feeling, that smile gave him a much more frightening feeling.

"W-who are you?" He asked while trying to keep his emotions in check.

Edwin replied with the same smile, "Just a common man."

When he heard that response, Samuel wanted to curse at Edwin loudly and say 'Since when can a common man suppress a 4 Star Warrior so effortlessly?!'

Edwin then stopped right in front of Samuel's body, "You can tell me what I came here for, or do I need to be forceful?"

Edwin had his own considerations for not killing Samuel or his servants. If a man with such great prestige suddenly died or the people near him were killed, it would definitely spread in the entire city like a forest fire.

However, if Samuel refused to answer his questions, he could just use his Mystical Eyes of Perception to force him.

Samuel was a little clever, though, as he immediately spoke, "I will answer any questions you have for me."

Edwin didn't stand on ceremony and asked him, "Who informed you about the bandit camp and the mines?"

As soon as Edwin finished speaking, Samuel responded with a sincere look, "I coincidentally-"

Suddenly, Edwin kicked Samuel's face so strongly that one of his teeth flew in the air.

"This time, only a tooth flew away. Next time you lie to you, it will be your head." Edwin warned with a cold tone.

Samuel was internally shocked. He hadn't expected Edwin to know that he was lying.

Since this incident occurred 3 weeks ago, he had spoken this explanation so many times that it had basically become the truth for him.

Even if Edwin was monitoring his heartbeat, he couldn't have known that this was a lie.

In reality, Edwin hadn't used any technique to figure out that Samuel was lying. He just used a bit of brain and logic.

It was next to impossible for Samuel to have not only discovered the entire bandit camp and also their mines unless someone tipped him.

If he really did have such a stroke of good luck, then that was also suspicious. The first thought Edwin had was that someone was controlling the events from the background.

After all, it begged the question, why was it only Samuel who coincidentally saw the bandit camp and found out about the mine? Moreover, Samuel's power seemed to be enough to deal with an entire Bandit Camp alone. Why wasn't it some other warrior who couldn't have dealt with those warriors?

Samuel soon began to speak, "…I don't know who it was. While searching for some missions, I received a post telling me to travel to investigate the southern part of the city. There were hundreds of Spirit Coins along with the letter. So, I felt that there was no harm in checking it out. On the same day, I went to the area mentioned in the letter and investigated it. At that time, I found the main camp of the bandits. When I investigated more, I found the mines as well."

"Give me the letter now."

Edwin spoke with a frown. The situation was quite troublesome.

The Gravity Array's effect suddenly vanished, and Samuel stood up. He then stared in Edwin's direction and thought about fighting him now.

However, he soon removed that thought as he felt that he had a very low chance of winning against this mysterious expert. This man didn't seem to be thinking of harming him, so forcefully antagonizing him would be a bad idea.

He went inside his room and picked up the letter before handing it to Edwin.

Edwin grabbed hold of the letter and asked a couple of questions from Samuel. After receiving the answers he needed, Edwin waved off his hands to inform Samuel that he could return to his room.

From the letter, Edwin didn't actually find anything related to the individual's identity manipulating this entire situation.