332: THE TRUE PERPETRATOR

THE TRUE PERPETRATOR

"Shouldn't we start to investigate why the witch used the dark magic on me?" Cane jumped straight to the point, as he established the fact it was the dead witch, who indeed used the dark magic and the king, neither anyone else could say otherwise, since it would make them looked so stupid to say it was Cane, who had done the black magic. "Whether she worked alone, or there was someone ordered her to do it."2

This time Kade stepped forward, he was one of the king's righthand men, hailed from Celestial Moon pack in the north.

"My king, what alpha Cane said is right," Kade said politely. The two of them had gotten closer because of the past relationship between Cane's father and the alpha of the Celestial Moon pack, more so, Cane had been active to join all the internal meeting and gave his two scents. "The curse on princess Osana has made the public anxious. It will be good for us to discover the person behind it."

King Aeon felt this whole thing was simply ridiculous because he knew for sure the dead witch had nothing to do with the curse on Osana, but of course, he couldn't say it out loud.

"My king, we need to investigate this matter thoroughly. If the witch was going to curse alpha Cane by using black magic and it has something to do with the curse on princess Osana as well, it meant, there is a high possibility of connection between the black magic and the lycan!" Koda said, he stood a little bit far from the king's party, thus his voice sounded so loud in this garden, everyone could hear him. "There is still a chance for us to save the fourth prince and find the true perpetrator behind this whole mess! The person must be killed for their brazen act!"

King Aeon's face darkened. The situation was out of his hand and escalated too fast. It became too wild and he could feel he started to lose his control over the whole thing.

His intention was only to break the mate bond between Cane and Iris, so Nala could be his mate! So, he would have one more person inside the Howling Wolf pack! But, what the fuck with the black magic, the curse on Osana and the lycan!? Why those matters tangled with his simple plan?!

He was at lost for what he had to decide, more so, his son had made him lost his face! If it was not for Cyan, he would have strangled Alan to death! It was so embarrassing to appoint him as a crown prince when he was so stupid! People could see it and he knew they mocked him for his stubborn decision to keep Alan in his position.

"This matter is way more important, my king," the other two of his righthand men started to chime in as well. The importance of this matter eclipsed the insult that Ethan had hurled toward the crown prince.

"King Aeon! Our Red Claw pack has shown you all the patient and support, but if you denied this investigation as well, I will take this offense and assume you have intentionally covered up something regarding the black magic and the lycan!" This time alpha Dristan spoke up, he was the alpha of the Red Claw pack. As he stood beside Koda and his warriors stood on guard behind him.

"What are you waiting for?! Why don't you go over there and check that damned witch!?" king Aeon roared, he was enraged to be pinned in difficult position.

What even more vexed him was; he couldn't do power play in this situation, since it would have offended not only Red Claw pack, but Howling Wolf pack as well and without Cane, the responsibility of this whole mess would be put back onto his shoulder!

Two of the royal magic users immediately rushed toward the dead witch and it didn't take them too long to confirm that their fellow magic user had casted black magic before her death.

On the other hand, Alan was fuming mad because once again, they forgot about his problem! They overlooked the insult that the gamma had done to him! Not to mention about punishment, his king father seemingly was going to punish him instead for creating commotion.

Alan felt so agitated to be forsaken again!

"She has performed the black magic!" one of the royal magic users declared.

King Aeon balled his fists tightly, as his claws stabbed his palm, but he was no longer felt any pain, as he was enraged. Of course, he knew the dead witch had performed black magic!

However, what Cane said next made him even more mad.

"I am the victim of this and my people and I almost lost our lives because of the obtuse accusation of me using the black magic!" Cane spoke so loud, his voice carried a trace of anger. "How can you not know the witch in your rank had performed the black magic?!"

The anger was directed at the head of the royal sorcerer, who was standing next to the king, but king Aeon felt Cane was cussing him out instead.

"My king, if someone by your side is so incompetent, don't you think it's time for you to reconsider his position?!" Cane was openly attacking the head of royal sorcerer, but his anger was justified, since he was the victim of the dark magic.

Meanwhile, as the alpha spoke so loud and brazenly, he was holding his mate's hand, as if his life depended on it.

And for Iris, she let Cane to hold her hand, though he held it too tightly and it was a little bit painful.

"My king, have mercy on us!" the head royal sorcerer immediately fell on his knees, followed by the other magic users, begging for forgiveness.

This was not the situation that king Aeon expected at all! How could thing turn out like this?!

"Scram! I will deal with you all!" The king was seething. "I will have your head hung in the palace gates if you can't find out who the person behind this! How can you not know a traitor within your rank?! Imbecile!"

Seeing that, Cane scoffed. He then stood up and was a little bit dizzy. He didn't think he could keep his consciousness for long.

"How can you ask them to look for this matter when we don't know whether or not there are another traitor among their rank," Cane said and he got a vicious glare from all the royal magic users for that, yet he couldn't care less about it. "I have a way to find the perpetrator. After all, you have given the responsibility to clean up this mess to me and I am very honor to finish my assignment."

King Aeon narrowed his eyes. "You have a way?"

All the sorcerer's eyes fixed on Cane, while they were still kneeling on the ground.

"Yes." Cane nodded confidently and then took Iris's hand to make her stand in front of him. "My mate will be a great help for us to figure this out."

Iris was confused when all of them abruptly looked at her.

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