Elemental Dissonance.

Location: Unknown

After a long, continuous drive of 4 hours, Clarec arrived at a relatively empty neighborhood, although it was an urban area, there wasn't even a single soul within the proximity.

He seemed like waiting for someone inside his car, just as he was about to redial the unknown number once again, a red speeding van came into his view, he stared at the van as it parked some space away from him

'Oh, here they are.' he reckoned within his mind.

A pale, sickly hand stuck out of the half-opened van's window from a distance, it wasn't his first time coming here so he knew they were inferring him to come inside the van, getting out of his car, he entered the van, inside the van were three people aside from the driver, all of them fully dr.a.p.ed in black sherlock coats and black anonymous masks on their faces looking very bizarre and mysterious.

'They never change, these phonies.' he thought.

One of those men spoke in a low voice "Young master welcome, it's been a while."

"It's been a while too Grim, you're looking like a true gentleman huh, nothing like the war mercenary who came to the 'Mansion' 4 years ago."

"It's all your grace young master, let's talk later, it's getting late, master's been waiting since morning, maybe it's something urgent, young master please wear the coat and the mask." said Grim as he took out a set of outfit from the suitcase right next to him and handed it out to Clarec.

Clarec wore the outfit and sat right next to Grim the whole time, as he chatted with Grim he came to know that other than Grim, he didn't recognize any other men as if he wasn't even a member of the family.

'It's just 3 years ago that I've left the Mansion, how much has this place been changed.' he speculated.

30 minutes later, they took him to a big open compound, there were large metal fences across the whole boundary of the compound and many guards roaming across the place. All of them wore the signature anonymous mask on their faces. As the van was proceeding further and further his face started to change expressions like never before, that empty compound which he was quite familiar with had changed greatly, the area had become a small base camp with a huge European style mansion in between.

The van stopped at the entrance of the mansion and Clarec got off the van while gazing here and there. As he reached the front door of the mansion, it suddenly opened up itself and a beautiful lady in a white maid uniform came out of the door.

"It's been a while young master." she said.

"It's been a while too Susan, where's father?"

"Master's in the living room reading a book."

He entered the mansion with a nostalgic expression on his face, removing his coat and mask, he went directly to the living room, inside there, sat a middle-aged man reading a book on a sofa chair right next to the fireplace, that man had a fair complexion and his facial features were very much identical with Clarec. He was Clarec's father, Eric Jones, the owner of the mansion, the founder of various global organizations, and the leader of B.R.A.I.N (Black Raven Agencies of Intelligence Network).

Black Ravens or simply BRAIN is a well known Intelligence Agency of EU, they simply sell information from confidential information to war secrets, they have everything, their agents are spread all over the world. They are affiliated with the EU and many other spy agencies, so no country without a good reason dare to touch their agents. This all started with the man sitting in front of him.

As he came closer, Eric raised his eyebrows looking at his son with a complicated expression.

"So you've come to arrest me huh Mr.Investigator?"

"You never change huh dad?" asked Clarec in a cheerful manner, if someone from his team were to witness it, he would uprightly deny the person to identify the person in front of them as Clarec.

"Yup I never do, sit here." said Eric as he patted the recliner right next to him.

"How are you son?"

"Why even bother asking, just ask the Ravens, they'll provide a full report of me and my team."

"You're still angry with me not being in contact with you"

"No, I'm not angry, it's just all of this are crazy, you're threatening the national security of many nations, it was better when Ravens were just a simple detective agency."

"Every nation has agents planted in many countries, it's nothing new, don't worry son."

"And what's the deal with these new people and new structures? Are you perhaps trying to get into the mercenary business?"

"Well, that's the reason I called you here today, actually, it's to deafen the sounds of underground construction."

"What are you building? An underground bunker perhaps?"

"Yes it's a bunker many other crime families and underground organizations have already finished their construction, our speed is somewhat slow due to these extra structures."

"Why? what's happening?"

"Well, a piece of peculiar news has been circulating among the hidden families and high officials of the government, something big is going to happen in these upcoming years and whatever it is, it's not gonna be pleasant."

"Is it something on a nuclear scale?"

"As you know, due to the agreement, we don't have our agents in those families like they can't have in ours, I just got some speculations, can't say anything for sure, some say it's going to be a nuclear war, some say it's going to be the world's end, whatever it is, we should start preparing from today itself.

And the second reason I called you here today is to talk about the criminal you're handling right now, Anglor Joseph, according to our sources I came to know that he's been framed by an alliance of military tech companies and local governments due to his hidden research based on the genetic improvement of the human body. His case is a mangled thread, you can try to extract the research outta him but don't try too hard, you'll end up inviting trouble onto yourself