Below demigod level, it was virtually impossible for anyone to be considered the killer based on strength alone.
Did they really think Prince Ayub was that easy to kill?
Without demigod-level strength, one would not even be qualified to cause trouble in front of the prince.
Not to mention facing eight demigods in succession.
And then getting away unscathed after killing them.
Any one of those acts, taken alone, would have been world-shaking.
Even High Legendary Grade experts would have had to step aside before such a feat.
Although the assassination of Prince Ayub had been tightly sealed away.
Any blockade of information was only relative.
Virtually every legendary figure in the city with even the slightest intelligence network already knew.
Those demigods from neutral or other organizations had even managed to learn some details.
As for the ordinary people living in the city, or those insignificant nobodies, they naturally had no way of knowing.
They only knew that something major seemed to have happened in the inner city, or else there would never have been a double lockdown inside and out.
Considering that Prince Ayub had ordered the city sealed not long ago.
This latest lockdown did not seem particularly surprising to many ordinary citizens.
It carried something of a wolf-cried-once-too-often feeling.
However, this news certainly could not be concealed forever.
Whether for the pursuit and investigation or for the succession of Prince Ayub's eldest son, Zahid, Prince Ayub's death would need to be made public.
As the eldest son, Zahid was no longer particularly young.
However, in a supernatural world of swords and magic, the lifespan standards and age brackets of humans—or, more accurately, nobles—were different.
Given Prince Ayub's status, he had barely undergone any training, yet had still forcibly piled his own strength up to the sixth