The elders then went inside the cave to see what happened. They found nothing. No one knew what had happened.

The elders asked the ones who came out, “What happened when you were inside?”

Everyone’s answer was the same, they said, “It was all fine at the beginning, but then it suddenly became dark, we simply kept walking, and we were outside.”

The elders found it hard to believe but had no choice but to believe it.

One of the high elves elders looked at the elves with narrowed eyes, “It’s bizarre isn’t? The ones that came out were the 3 high elves that could be considered the strongest in this tournament and the 12 elves unharmed, it could be said that the one who did this considered the 3 high elves too strong to deal with and let them go, but still, 12 elves came out alright? I wonder why it was only the high elves that disappeared”

There is always that one fool in every group who would see the situation exactly as it is laid, ignoring the facts, and if something makes sense by the way he arranged the facts, he thinks it the truth. That was precisely what the elder just did rather than logically thinking, he used his hate and superiority over the elves to fill the holes in the story. If he thought more logically, he would have found many flaws within his own theory. Well it’s better for me this way

Another one of the elders who was an elf got irritated, and Tensing his facial muscles, he said, “Don’t you dare make this between the elves and the high elves.”

“Why would I not? this looks like an obvious ploy to reduces the competitors for the elves.”

“How dare you.”

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Many of the elders began arguing.

The king had arrived, but the look on his face was calm, even the elders who were besides were quiet.

Everyone bowed and greeted the king. The king slowly looked at the situation.

He came down, slowly came towards me, and said, “SO, you are the one who everyone is talking about.”

One of the advisor’s form behind said, “My king this might not be the time to talk about that”

The king looked at the elves, “Ahh, yes, don’t worry, the elves did not do it.”

“What? What are you saying, my king?”

“Only those permitted could enter the cave. If anyone else had entered, one of my advisors would have noticed that. Meaning it was done by someone from the inside.”

One of the high elves spoke while showing hostility towards the elves, “Then, it must have been one of those 12 elves.”

The king looked at the high elf and showing his authority, “Don’t interrupt me.”

“Now, where were we”

“Ahh yes, I have lived for millions of years, and from all the experience I have gathered I can at least tell how strong someone is, and I certainly know that the 12 elves are not strong enough to kill the rest of the high elves, but all three of the high elves certainly are. “

“But my king, why would a high elf kill other high elves?”

“Yes, I wonder why? Now Then we have two suspects. One is my own daughter, and the next is the fellow high elf with the red hair.”

Both of them got shocked, but I saw this coming.

The princess panicked,” How could you suspect your own daughter and why is he not suspected,” she said that while pointing at me.

“The room was covered in darkness, the one who did it must have had a darkness attribute, but the one who possesses spatial attribute cannot wield light or darkness attributes, that is something well known to the ones in a higher position. So, the only remaining suspects are you two.”

I had known that I would not be suspected as I had already shown my spatial Magic, I had also learned some of the elders in a higher power would suspect the princess. But before they could say anything, the king himself made his own daughter a suspect, which was a wise move on his part. But also meant he had a way to clear the very suspicion. I had previously thought the king would suspect the red-haired elf but would have no way to prove it and remove his daughter of the doubt. The two high elves would remain as suspects.

The high elves who were killed were mostly grandsons of people with high authority. So this matter would not quickly end.

As the princess would be one of the suspects. The high elves whose descendants were just killed would blame the king.

Also, as it was attempted to put the blames on the elves. The elves would also revolt. The king would have been cornered, but he avoided that situation by removing the elves out of suspicion.

If he could remove his daughter from the suspicion, his problem would then be solved.

The king looked at the red-haired elf and asked, “Now, why did you did it little one?”

The red-haired elf intimated from the king's look, panicked, and said, “I, I did not do it, I swear.”

“It’s not good to lie in front of the king, guards arrest him.”

One of the elves who suspected the princess asked, “How do we know it was not your daughter?”

“Cause my daughter had no reason to do it, but that one did. I had my advisors research about him. It seems his family had borrowed money from various families and was getting pressured by them, so his whole family seems to have committed suicide. By killing the high elves and blaming the elves, creating disputes between them would have given him a perfect chance to take his revenge.”

Researched? This fast? What nonsense, he had no proof, so he just created a motive. But It was indeed a good move