Chapter 146: Suspicions
After gathering the information Mochi needed, Akarin returned to the inn and told Mochi everything he had seen.
Linda wakes up and learns what happened the night before, and she regrets that she missed so much of the show, and she also expresses her confusion, "But how are you sure that guy is the murderer?" β
Mochi pulls out a lingua franca version of Silvermoon City's Modern History, opens one of the pages, and shows Linda and Akalin one of the illustrations.
Linda looked at the illustration and said, "This painting depicts a battle between the High Elves and the Scourge?" But I don't understand, this battle must have happened many years ago, I don't understand how it has to do with recent events? β
Mochi pointed to the mage in the center of the illustration.
Linda pouted dissatisfiedly, "Okay, okay, it's really troublesome to communicate with a fish-man like you, I'll read the text next to the illustration - 'The picture above: The archmage Bi Luohua fought bravely in the case of an arrow wound, blocking the attack of the scourge undead', I see, the mage who was hit by the arrow was Bi Luohua, he was standing on the seashore, his hands spraying flames, what was he doing? Unleash a fireball towards the sea? β
Mochi was helpless for a while.
"Oh, I see, that guy riding a skeleton war horse over there should be Arthas, the fallen prince of Lendaren, those catastrophic undead behind him, and the sword in his hand is releasing cold air, he is freezing the sea, trying to let his army of undead pass through the strait and reach Quelldanis Island!" Analyzing this, Linda looked at Mochi expectantly.
And Moqi sighed, sure enough, it was too reluctant for Linda to analyze these things. It's better for him to write the answers directly on paper.
Mochi wrote on the paper -
Bilova Salonar
"Ace Salonar"
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Linda, who was standing behind Mochi, said, "Isn't Ace-Salonar the handsome mage who loves to wear the midnight blue robes?" Wait, he also has the last name Salonar? Could it be that he is the son of Bilohua! β
Mochi nodded, and continued on the paperβ"Maybe it's a son, maybe it's a grandson...... But what is certain is that Salonal is a rather rare surname among the Blood Elves, and the two of them must be related. β
"I see. I remember being there that night at the Ace Salonar Ball, and he testified at the time, 'I don't know anything about fire spells, and I don't bother to know about them.' But he was the son of Biroa Salonar, and the magic used by Birohua to fight the Scourge was fire magic. He said that he was too suspicious not to understand fire magic! As Bilohua's son, he must have learned about these fire magics! Linda suddenly realized.
Seeing that Linda finally reacted quickly, Mo Qi was also very pleased. Fire and Frost are essentially shaping spells, and there are many mages who are good at both fire and frost, while mages who only know about fire or frost are very rare.
"If Ace Salonar is the murderer, then instead of hating fire magic, he is very good at it...... He had been hiding what he was good at, pretending that he could only use ice spells. And as Gareth's colleague, he must have used his staff without Gareth noticing, tsk, this guy is really scheming. Linda sighed.
"But it's the guy named Sadir who gets the trick right now. I've heard that the regent has made a proclamation to marry his daughter, and if he is the one with bad intentions, it would be too unfortunate for Anvena to marry him. Akalin said.
Mochi couldn't agree more with Akalin's words, but if it was to prove that Duke Sadir was behind it, Mochi needed some more conclusive evidence.
First of all, it is necessary to gather more information about the Duke of Sadir himself.
This information is easy to gather, after all, Sadir is a celebrity in Silvermoon City, and almost everyone knows about him. After breakfast, Linda received a lot of information about Sadir from the innkeeper -
Sadir-Morningstar was originally born into a declining aristocratic family, and his family's fiefdom is said to be in the northwestern part of the Singing Forest. Sadir's family was devastated by the appearance of the undead of a natural disaster, in which he lost his parents and brother. Later, it was he who took advantage of the post-war reconstruction of the market to accumulate wealth and control most of the mines in the Wraith Lands and the Singing Forest, as well as most of the jewelry sales market in the Royal Trade District.
Quite a legendary and inspirational life experience. Mo Qi commented secretly.
But there are also too many doubts.
It is not uncommon for a man who has made a fortune in business to go back and buy a knighthood and make up a birth for himself. Therefore, Moqi suspected that a large part of the story in the innkeeper's mouth was hearsay, and did not correspond to the real situation. It is also very likely that a descendant of the Sunstrider will return to Silvermoon City's social circle with the help of a remote nobility and a legacy left by the Sunstrider family.
On the other hand, the information that made the investigation of Xue Ruian also echoed, and the three jewelry mining companies with the ability to refine high-purity glow powder were all owned by the Duke of Sadir-Morningstar.
This Sadir is really not as innocent as he appears.
In fact, Mochi should have thought of this a long time ago - Duke Sadir said that he was already suspicious when he saw two black-robed people in the garden, and that wearing black-robes when meeting in the court was obviously a deadly practice, and the members of the "Sindore Revitalization Society" would not do so, even if they were stupid.
Now it is necessary to confirm the true identity of the Duke of Sadir.
According to the name of the man called "Abel", the true identity of Duke Sadir appears to be a descendant of the Sunstrider family. Mochi planned to start with this, and Mochi, Linda, and Akalin immediately set off, and after some inquiry, found the court historian of the court of the Sunseeker.
The court historian was an old man who was already a thousand years old, and after hearing everyone's statement about the "descendants of the Sun Chaser family", the elderly court historian smiled and commented that the three of them had read too much wild history, and their minds were full of nonsense.
"There are no other legitimate heirs to the Sunseeker family." The old court historian said with confidence, "I know every person in this family, and my main duty in the past was to record the words and deeds of their family members on weekdays, I know every branch of this family, and I know every single one of them, and now there is no such thing as the heir of the so-called Sunchaser family in this world." β
"Could it be Kael'Tham's illegitimate son?" Linda asked tentatively.
"His Majesty Kael'thas is very strict in his style, and he is also very disciplined in his private life. Even if that happened, I was sure he wouldn't kick out anything that would damage the royal reputation. The court historian said with confidence.
How so? Once again, Mochi's reasoning seems to have gone awry.
After leaving the palace historian's residence, Linda also said her thoughts, "Don't you think Duke Sadir doesn't look like Kael'thas at all?" β
Mochi cleaned up and motioned for her to continue.
Linda gestured and said, "Kael'thas has high eyebrows and thick eyebrows, but Sadir is completely different, he has thin eyebrows and a low forehead. To be honest, I don't think the two of them are related by blood at all. β
Linda usually looks sloppy, but what she said this time is very reasonable. After all, she is a woman, and she is more sensitive to men's appearance than Moqi. Mochi recalled the appearance of the two and agreed with what she said, that Sadir and Karthhas had no similarities in appearance.
Combined with the words of the court historians, it is very likely that Sadir is not the so-called "heir to the Sunchaser family". This identity is mostly made up, so what is his real identity?
A new question was placed in front of Mochi.