Chapter 112: Investigation

Sam sent the remaining two mice to the Count mansion, to keep a track on the officials. The info he got was that there are two officials supporting the two big organisations each in the dark and the gang leader he killed even mentioned that this is not a secret in the under-ground circle, it is just that they don't know who those two officials are.

So, Sam decided one thing, he must deal with the two officials before he could get his hands on the two big organisations.

The two shadow mice, which went to Count mansion are going to follow an official each for a whole week.

If the officials are clean, then they will change the targets, this is what Sam thought out.

Until then, he and Jack will slowly erode the small gangs.

Midnight.

In the Arena, the great mage who recognised Sam, is sitting with two people. Both of them are Peak Novices.

"Rank 5 Artisan Sam is here." The Great mage who is a middle-aged man said in a low voice. The expressions of the two people changed.

"He is one of the suspects behind the elimination of the Black pond in the Falcon Cliff city. Higher ups said that even though Sam might not be directly involved in the attack, there is a chance that he made the special poison that killed our people."

"Maybe, the culprit has asked Sam to make them this item and he didn't have any idea where the culprit is using them. After all, he is an artisan and many people can buy things from him.

And most importantly at that time he is still in Novice Level 1. It is impossible for him to attack all of them at the same time.

Even though, the poison is involved, I think there is a great possibility that at least a Novice peak Level is involved in this.

If possible, we can even ask him who that person is and investigate." A peak level Novice said.

"We will observe things for now and see why is he here and then we can decide on how to proceed." The great mage then dismissed the meeting.

After the meeting dismissed, the shadow mouse in the dark immediately left the room. Even though, he got some information, he is in no hurry to report to Sam.

Sam has clearly mentioned that they have to report weekly and also told them to gather as much info as possible.

Meanwhile, Sam is sleeping in the inn. Even though, he is wealthy enough to buy a house, he is not that interested this time, he has some plans to his wealth and he also needs to stay low profile.

The next day, Sam went into the woods and let the ape out. He still needs to activate the bloodline of the Ape, but it would be better if he is on same level or higher level than the ape. Then he doesn't have to put much effort and risk being weak for days.

He is here to practice some combat with the beasts here and catch some beasts exclusive to this region to have taste.

As for the ape, it is responsible for the search of the fruit trees and the herbs.

For the next week, Sam ventured into the woods every morning. Since, he was occupied with other things, he doesn't have enough time to practice his combat. Now, he has enough time.

Every morning he was in the woods and night he and Jack investigated the small gangs slowly.

The previous gang leader, he has killed is the weakest among them and his position was already taken over by someone else.

But he isn't in a hurry to take them down.

After dealing with the two officials, he can take these guys on as leisurely as he wants.

And now all the shadow mice came to report to him.

After hearing the repot he got some important news and that is the Arena is the Black water's branch in this city and they have suspicions on him.

Then only he realised the mistake of not cleaning the battle field. He thought that, the count will make sure to clean it up after he sent the letter as robin hood. But now only he realised that he didn't.

If not for the fact he was unconscious after the battle, he might have cleaned up himself.

But Sam didn't know that it was his fault. Just after he was taken away by Jack, the great mage from the nearest city already came and took a look at the battle field and reported it to the higher ups. That happened even before he wrote the letter to the Count Falcon.

But Shadow mice didn't have any evidence on whether the two big gangs are part of the Black water or not.

As for the two mice following the two officials, the officials turned out to be clean and didn't have any connections with the other underground forces.

So, Sam sent them back and he went on with his daily routine.

Today night, he has some plans and that is to get his hands on the drug that is being supplied by the tiger fish.

But since he is in suspect list of the Black water, he doesn't want to show his face yet. So, he sent Jack to buy some at a contact point of the Tiger fish.

That night, Sam took a look at the pills Jack brought back and gave it to the ape to take a sniff and the ape gave an utterly disgusted expression.

Why did Sam do this? The ape has another ability and that is distinguishing the herbs. But it doesn't know, the qualities of the herbs and their uses all it can sense is whether the herbs and fruits are tasty or not according to its preferences and the preference of the ape is never wrong.

So, Sam said some words.

"From tomorrow, collect the herbs you think that are used in this pill."

The ape nodded as it ate a fruit which looked like pear.

Sam left the divine dimension and went into a deep thought.

First, he needs to observe the effects of the drug to see what he can do with this.

Sam had an idea on how to deal with the two big shot organisations. That is even if they are the two organisations operating together discreetly under the black water, the info must have been only known to the people in charge and other important members.

The remaining members though, are all in the dark. Otherwise the façade will collapse easily.

So, Sam wants to use their disputes to take on each other and before that, he needs the effects of this drug on the people to see if he can use this to his benefit.

Next day, Sam went to the woods with the ape, but this time he didn't practice combat instead he followed the ape inside the woods.

And by the evening, the ape found six herbs which are supposedly part of the drug.

When they went back, Sam went to a drug contact point, but he didn't buy any, rather he waited for a customer.

He waited till midnight and finally a young man bought some and walked away hurriedly.

Sam stealthily followed him and after an hour of walking in circles, the young man led the way to his home. When Sam secretly looked inside the home, he saw the young man feeding the pill to a crazy looking man who seemed to be in his late twenties.

After taking the pills, the crazy look was gone and was replaced with euphoria and ecstasy. He seemed to be in some kind of illusion as he muttered something about his love and a woman.

Sam kept on observing and when the drug seemed to be wearing off, the young man fed another pill and the addict seemed to immediately fall asleep.

He went back to the inn and the next day, he similarly followed other customers and what he knew is that the addicts themselves didn't come to buy them at all.

All the people who came are the relatives of the addicts and effects of the drug are similar to the first person he saw.

For the first pill, they will feel euphoria and the second pill seemed to make them sleep.

But the herbs that the ape found weren't sufficient to cause all these effects and there must be some kind of special ingredient.

But Sam didn't find the last item in the next two weeks.

The third report from the shadow mice gave him some news and that is that the organisations are really linked together by the Arena and this news seemed to be only known by three people.

But there is no news on the officials and the list also narrowed down considerably. There are only few officials left who climbed their ranks up as commoners.

All the officials from the noble families are clean. Even though, they are corrupt but they don't have anything to do with these organisations.

In a week it would be one month since he came to this city and Sam wants to gather the info as soon as possible.

Then only he suddenly remembered the monthly report the mice stole in the Falcon Cliff city and Sam immediately gave an order.

"Steal the documents, from all three organisations this week. Don't hoard all of them, just steal some which are well placed or treated as important."

The mice went onto their duty and Sam is still thinking about the herb.

Since, he wasn't able to think of anything, he went on a stroll.