My Muscle System in the Mage World

Chapter 46: Putting the Blame on William

When Aur had previously fought Williams and beaten him to the point of unconsciousness, he secretly took a few hair samples from him, anticipating a scenario where he could shift all the blame onto Williams.

To Aur's surprise, the need for these samples arose sooner than expected.

After eliminating any traces linking the victims to his involvement, using various weapons to remove all traces of him using his fist to brutally murder them that even their own parents wouldn't recognize them, and dissecting their bodies into pieces, Aur returned.

The key factor for Aur in framing Williams was the involvement of the girl.

…

Williams casually strolled the place with a curious expression as he walked around, and suddenly his nose started to twitch with an bloody smell.

"Smell of blood," he frowned as he instructed his blue-haired beauty of a maid, "stay here."

"Wait, young master."

William didn't listen to her as he sprinted towards the smell with the helpless eyes of the angel who watched this with a frown on her face.

"I can't let him out of my vision, but if I catch up to him, even a fool will be suspicious of me." Angel cursed silently as she slowly followed William at a normal human's pace.

Soon he was out of her vision already.

"It's nearby here." Williams said it with a frown on his face.

"There..." Almost like a dog, he sniffed the air and found two bodies lying there after some searching—one with a gruesomely burst skull, and the other an unconscious girl in a half-naked state.

William looked at the tender jade-white body of the woman and blushed. He walked up to her; however, he accidentally broke a branch while doing so.

Crack!

The girl slowly opened her eyes, and the moment she did, the gruesome sight of Lucas's corpse made her scream in fright.

William, as if on instinct, reached the girl and covered her with his own coat.

"You don't have to be scared now," he said, patting her with a gentle smile on his face.

The girl's expression was full of despair as she looked at the golden-haired handsome man, However, seeing the handsome man's face up close a slightly blush appeared on her tearful face. She leaned into his chest as if on instinct.

"There, there, girl, you will be alright," William reassured her with a gentle smile on his face.

"Thank you, saviour," the girl said while blushing.

William was a little confused by the word "saviour," however, he just smiled tenderly at the beauty in front of him.

Aur returned, and what he saw made a small frown appear on his face as he looked at the scene before him.

"These might be more troublesome—" Suddenly, Aur held his breath as he thought of something. "Wait, these might be even more advantageous to me." A sneer appeared on his face as he disappeared from his position. After gaining some distance, he changed into the clothes Lucy had given him and left the place.

Adding William's hair to the crime scene was now pointless, as he himself had planted the biggest evidence. Aur didn't even have to go through the trouble of using the guy's golden hair as the evidence.

"I underestimated his stupidity. I wonder what storm these will create," Aur muttered as he looked at the two who seemed to have already become lovebirds, softly cuddling with each other in speechlessness.

"I guess this is the benefit of being the protagonist," he mused to himself as he suddenly disappeared like the wind.

…

"Young master, what would you like to buy?"

Aur looked at the hunched man with a frown on his face under another mask.

"What's your name?" he asked with curiosity.

"My name is James, young master."

Aur just nodded his head.

"Do all these guys have a hunched back?" His gaze narrowed while looking at the man.

"Umm… young master, why did you come to this humble market?" James said with a confused expression on his face.

Hearing this, Aur just shrugged and asked, "Where are the materials where I could buy these equipment?" He directly handed him the list.

When James saw the letter, he sneered inside. "Does this brat think I wouldn't know that he is going to practise the five elemental magic? Although the attempt to hide it by mixing random materials is interesting and is quite valid, it is still nothing in front of an expert's eyes."

"Young master, I have just the right place for you." The man's face beamed with excitement and guided him to the biggest shop where Aur directly pre-ordered the things and went away.

…

As Aur slowly returned from the market, he saw his little Latino maid in the distance waving at him.

A sneer appeared internally, but Aur was all smiles externally as he went up to Lucy and hugged her tightly. "You didn't have to wait for me here," he spoke with a gentle and warm gaze, as if Aur was looking at his love.

"Young master, it is my duty to look after you," Lucy giggled with a smile, her cheeks already rosy.

Aur just nodded his head as they returned to his dorm room.

Although the marketplace was inside the academy, the sheer size of the entire marketplace could be considered huge, and the academy itself was vast not only in height but also in terms of its area.

Although the academy might only seem tall as the mercenary's place, it consumed almost half the village, and there were houses too, with people living here.

The descendants of the elders and the village leader were the only ones allowed to build their houses inside the academy, and they were living a rich life even if they didn't have any talent.

The academy was so large, to the point that outside the academy, the place could be considered as the outer area of the village, and the inside of the academy could be considered as the inner area of the village.

…

Aur sat in his simple room, carefully examining all the herbs.

In front of him was a cauldron with a burner, along with some tubes and flasks intricately arranged, resembling a science experiment.

"Looks like everything is ready," Aur heaved a sigh of relief and started the burner at a low temperature first.

Constructing a spell required more than just having the blueprint; one needed materials to inscribe the spell into the mental space. It wasn't something made out of thin air.

Aur touched the cauldron with a thermometer-like object, and the red liquid rose to 40 miza, making him nod his head.

Miza served as the standard unit of temperature in this world.

Aur slowly, one by one, started to put the ingredients into the cauldron.

First, he dropped the lion's mane until its temperature became high, then he started to add moon-shadow sage.

As the temperature of both ingredients rose, the lion's mane also slowly turned into a golden liquid.

"This should complete the step…" Aur directly took out both of them simultaneously and put all the other ingredients almost instantly.

He didn't care about order this time, as tens of different herbs and items that he had prepared beforehand were all added to the burning hot cauldron.