The Investigation Part 1

2 Days later

Gathered around the burnt down building that was Vincent Marino's base where dozens of men and women dressed in matching black and gold adorned uniforms they were the DCPD (Delmar City Public Defense).

They were thoroughly sifting around what remained of the chard building in hopes of stumbling upon more clues. Not far down the road was a black 1920s styled lone strider designed by golden gate auto company's best designer Masuda Satoru.

The car parked on the other side of the street from the building along with a bunch of other DCPD issued cars. Stepping out of the car was a man with short blond hair that blew in the wind, blue eyes, goatee, and an unremarkable build.

Walking towards the crime scene he was told to investigate he stumbled upon his Districts captain Haley Marsh. She was wearing her captain's uniform adorned with many badges instructing officers on what to do.

Knowing someone was approaching her Haley turned around to see who it was "Leon you finally decided to grace us with your presence. Now that you are here mind doing some detective work".

Leon Keller had a questioning look on his face as he asked "Captain Haley what are you doing

you typically don't come out to any crime scenes".

"That's true I don't, but this one is a little special I had to see it personally before I could make a decision on whether or not to hand this case off to the Eclipse association and let them send some magi to handle the case. Maybe we will get lucky and they will employ The Order of Peth to do it, despite how insane everyone there is they are good at what they do.".

Captain Haley handed detective Leon Keller a folder filed with photos and a detailed account of everything that they were able to find out so far. Captain Haley than instructed Leon to follow her as she leads him to the basement.

Leon looked through the information he was given as he received the summary from Captain Haley "here's what we know right now two days ago there was a huge fire that originated underground spread then burnt down this building that belonged to a known loan shark in the area and suspected drug dealer Vincent Marino. It took two days to clear away the rubble when the rubble was clear the group clearing it away found something. After that, they called us in we arrived here a few hours ago.

Vincent Marino along with 7 of his companions and one other person Identified as Ingram Jensen were found dead. All of them died in various ways mostly they died from being shot multiple times. One guy got blasted apart another fell in a puddle of acid created from the spell acid splash. There were also signs of the spell Earth spike surge being used only one person got hit with it a woman at the age of 137.

When the killer was finished with there job they took everything of value of Vincent's then left yet, not before setting the place on fire.

The fire was caused by an apprentice level spell firestorm because it is a common low grade spell anyone could have used it narrowing our search down that way useless. Which might have mattered if the people who committed the crime cared in the slightest bit about letting people know who did this".

Inside Vincent's underground office Leon saw a Grotesk seen 9 chard bodies laying in various positions on the floor being examined by other officers. What caught his eye most of all wasn't the dead bodies it was what was carved into the wall in the middle of the room.

It was a depiction of a pair of sharp teeth holding onto an eye that looks directly at you in its jaw. Surrounding the image carved into the wall was the face of one person pealed off from one of the bodies on the floor that was all burnt black from the fire. The pealed off face belonged solely to Vincent Marino everyone else faces were untouched.

When Leon saw that he could not help but mutter under his breath a name that strikes terror into those who hear it "Secret Visage". Everyone In the world knows who Secret Visage is they are a very big organization of rogue magi that appeared over 10,000 years ago.

They have suspected ties with many powerful people and can be found dealing in every facet of crime imaginable. They have in recent years managed to completely wipe-out an entire city of 20 million and successfully assassinate a rank 5 magi as just a reminder of there power. Secret Visage is chaotic in everything they do to this day no one has figured out a pattern to there actions.

There an organization that is neither a terrorist group or a group of Revolutionary they have no discernible goal greater than wanting to watch the world burn. Ever since they appeared a saying developed because of them whenever anything goes wrong in the world Secret visage is nearby.

Leon looked uncomfortable as he took a look at everything around him "Captain if this is actually Secret Visage there's no way I'm doing an indebted investigation I have a wife to think about you know".

"I don't expect you to, just look around you while everyone is doing their job collecting any kind of evidence they can you can clearly tell no one wants to be here right now. Secret visage is no joke the chances of them killing any of us if we look too deep in them are high. All I want for you is do a quick investigation of one person who was able to survive".

With a look of surprise on his face, Leon asked: "Survive someone was able to survive an attack from secret Visage".

Nodding her head Haley replied with a firm "Yes, while what happened here is a possible attack by Secret Visage it was most likely just a new recruit since the only spells used were apprentice level ones. It's not the first time something like this happened its rare, but on occasion, there are cases where you can find Secret Visage sending out apprentices there grooming out on missions.

We tried using deviation but it was useless unless you can find a high level mage or a skilled seer to dispell it. We also tried contacting the souls of the deceased, but the killer took care of that problem as well. Leaving us to do things the old fashion way until I get the chance to dump this case on the magi".

Having a clear understanding of what happened here Leon Keller took a gander at Vincent's office, the bodies, and the rest of the rooms in the place. Allowing him to Come to realize what kind of person Vincent Marino was.

Not wanting to spend anymore time than he had to on the case he was given Leon took a closer look at the file he was given "no way, they only got the case a few hours ago yet they already finished compiling everything they even got someone to look into the survive's background and question his neighbors so quickly.

They're just waiting on me and a few other things so they can send it to the Eclipse Association and not have to deal with the case anymore. I've never seen such high efficiency before when they heard who we were possibly dealing with it must have scared them all into overdrive".

Leon had a sense of relief now that he knew everyone was thinking like him because while he may be a man that would uphold justice to the best of his ability he knew when something was out of his depth. "That's good than all I have to do is have a chat with a man named Desmond Gillies at Newport hospital and not think about this again".

Wanting to put an end to this job like the rest Leon hopped in his car and drove off towards Newport hospital.