Transcendent Dawn

Chapter 16: The Investigation

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Early in the morning, the second day.

“Morning, sir. Are you Mr. Thulhu Botley?”

Opening the door, Thulhu saw two police officers. Both of them were wearing badges. On the badge was a royal sword wrapped in thistles and thorns.

“Yes, I am.”

Thulhu wasn’t surprised at all. After verifying their IDs, he let the two police officers in.

“So, is there anything I can do for you, sir?” asked Thulhu, pretending that he knew nothing.

“Yes, we have some questions to ask you,” said one of the officers.

The female officer pulled out a file photo. “Do you know this lady?”

It was a black-and-white photo, and it wasn’t very clear. But still, Thulhu recognized Beatrice.

In the picture, Beatrice looked inhumanly cold. The look on her face gave Thulhu an uncomfortable chill.

It was as if her cold eyes had some creepy power, able to directly stare at Thulhu even through the photo!

It was so eerie!

Thulhu had no idea what he had let loose.

But he could only keep these thoughts to himself.

“Mr. Botley… Mr. Botley?”

The officer called his name, seeing that he was lost in thought. “Are you alright?”

“I’m good… Sorry, I was just…”

Thulhu suggested the two officers take a seat and he grabbed them some water. “Sorry, it’s the only thing I have here.”

“Thanks.”

The female officer closed the file and pulled out her notebook. “So, can you tell us what kind of relationship you have with this lady?”

“She’s Beatrice, my classmate… I once pursued her.”

Thulhu didn’t feel embarrassed at all.

“She is indeed a beauty…” The female officer flashed him a smile. “It’s quite normal for young people…”

“Sorry…” said Thulhu, “I heard that she’s missing. Is that right?”

“No, she’s not missing!”

The male officer said, “She’s currently accused of three murders and nine intentional assaults. We’re chasing her!”

What?

Thulhu was shocked. He had never expected that the corpse princess he created would cause such huge trouble.

If it had been an ordinary corpse princess, it would have started to rot after being so far away from its caster without a power supply.

“Beatrice… No! She’s not like that!” Thulhu burst out.

It turned out that Thulhu could be quite a good actor.

“Then… Mr. Botley, can you tell us where you were at seven o’clock on July 3rd?”

The female officer gently tapped the notebook with her pen and clearly asked the question.

“I… I was on a date with Beatrice at White Tower…”

Thulhu scratched his head and said, “Beatrice invited me there, but when she arrived, she said that I was the one who had invited her… Although it wasn’t a very good opening, the date eventually turned out to be a good one!”

Molly must have told the police this part, so Thulhu didn’t hide it.

“So both of you thought it was the other person’s invitation? Don’t lie! We know what you did that night!”

The male officer suddenly said the words with a very serious look on his face.

Thulhu was aware that the officer was trying to intimidate him.

One played the good cop, and the other the bad cop. What an old trick!

“I didn’t lie!” Thulhu pretended to tremble with fright. He turned to look at the female officer for support. “I told her that I got a job offer from the lab in Green Tree Fort. I got her sincere congratulations. We then went our separate ways after leaving the cafe. I went to the library and stayed there until… around ten o’clock, and then I came back to my dorm. I believe many people saw me in the library that day!”

“Just like that?”

The male officer exchanged looks with the female officer. “Then did you feel… anything strange about Beatrice that night?”

Thulhu pretended to try and recall, but then shook his head. “No…”

“I see.”

The female officer asked a few more questions, and then put her notebook aside. “If you think of anything new, contact me at the number on this card.”

She handed Thulhu a card and walked out of the dorm with the male officer.

“Wait a second!”

Thulhu walked them out and suddenly asked, “Can I ask… where is Beatrice?”

They exchanged looks again and the female officer said in a low voice, “Last time, she showed up in the city of Boy, and then disappeared completely…”

The city of Boy!

Boy was located to the far west of Niah. It would take one several hours to get there by train.

Thulhu had never expected the corpse princess to travel that far.

After the officers left, Thulhu closed the door and glanced at the card in his hand. The female officer’s name was Marilyn Luna. Interesting!

Thulhu’s preparations weren’t perfect.

If the corpse princess’s power finally wore off and the body was found, Thulhu would still look very suspicious.

However, the corpse princess now turned out to be a wanted murderer.

This world was so unpredictable!

But now, at least, the police’s attention was drawn to the other murders committed by Beatrice. No evidence could link the two things together. The fact that the two police officers had come to his dorm demonstrated that he wasn’t very suspicious in the eyes of the police, or he would have been sent to the police department.

Of course, the police would still keep a close watch on Thulhu for now, which was normal.

Thulhu wasn’t afraid of the investigation at all, since most of his words were true, and he was indeed innocent!

Thulhu would also welcome the police’s secret surveillance of him, as it was equivalent to protecting him.

It would be ideal if the murderer gave up on attacking him because of the police presence.

But what was happening with the corpse princess made him feel very insecure.

He couldn’t get rid of the image of that face from his mind.

The ritual had clearly been influenced by the moon. An ordinary corpse princess didn’t have any autonomy. Many books on religion mentioned that the moon was closely linked to darkness and death, and was the target of many evil gods and false gods.

Perhaps some kind of existence had interrupted his ritual that night and turned the corpse princess into a brand new undead creature?

He suddenly had a speculation.

Of course, it always took time for an undead creature to grow powerful.

The ritual going wrong was only the beginning. Thus, Thulhu could still control the corpse princess at first and make it follow his words.

However, as time went on, the corpse princess would grow faster and faster with the blood and flesh it fed on. Finally, it would become beyond lethal!

Thulhu believed that in the long-term, the corpse princess would become an even bigger threat than the real murderer who was hiding behind the scenes!

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Thulhu scratched his head, feeling deeply distressed. Maybe he should write to Roald to tell him all this.

He had so many questions to ask his elder brother.

These questions included what Dawn of the Gods and extraordinary resurrection were, how to grow more powerful as a demon hunter, how to become a true extraordinary, how to deal with the huge trouble caused by the corpse princess, and so on.

Comparatively speaking, these questions were way more important than Thulhu’s uneasiness at seeing Roald.

After all, it had been four years, and people always changed.