Chapter 152: Capture failed

The breakthrough in the case found by the task force is also a surprise. Who would have thought that an anti-smuggling operation unrelated to the case would have discovered key evidence?
The Amnesty Navy intercepted a merchant ship while patrolling the coast of Ascotla. The Navy's anti-smuggling team conducted regular inspections of the merchant ship and seized a batch of magic crystals in the mezzanine of the merchant ship’s silo.
This shipment has not been reported and intends to be shipped into Amn quietly to avoid high customs duties.
This was originally a normal anti-smuggling operation, and what was found was only an ordinary smuggling case.
Amn adopts a punitive high tax rate on magic items. In order to obtain more profits, magic crystal merchants often smuggle magic items into Amn and sell them to black market merchants.
However, the careful customs officials remembered the recent turmoil of the Bradlow Theater bombing report. The task force notified the various departments of Amn in the form of a secret letter. It mentioned that the bomb used to blow up the theater was a kind of Magic bomb, magic spar is precisely one of the raw materials for making magic bomb.
So the customs officials provided the seized magic spar samples to the task force, and after inspection by the Arcanists of the Masked Wizard Society, it was determined that this kind of magic crystal was used in the bomb used in the bombing of the Bradlow Theater.
This is a major clue!
The task force immediately arraigned the magic crystal smuggler. After torture, the magic crystal smuggler could not survive the torture and confessed to his next home in the black market.
This person is the ore merchant Jeliya!
Zeliya was arrested immediately and suffered the same torture.
As for why the task force tortured a suspect when it caught it, this is not surprising.
In the magical Middle Ages, Faerun didn't have the concept of "human rights". Even the lawful regime of the lawful camp would not resort to any kind of merciful means to criminals.
If you find that you caught the wrong person at the end of the fight, I’m really sorry. If you are unlucky, please get out of the prison with gratitude (because you didn’t beat you to death) and make room for the next unlucky one.
The ore merchants also couldn't stand the torture, violating the rules of the black market merchants and leaking the list of secret customers.
In the past six months, only one customer has purchased this type of magic crystal!
The magic crystal shipped by the smuggler was also ordered by the customer, and the deposit of 100,000 gold coins has been paid!
After the task force got this clue, it was extremely excited and believed that the truth was in sight. As long as the customer who bought the magic crystal was caught, the explosion at the Bradero Theater could be solved.
Jeliya confessed that the customer bought it anonymously, and Jeliya did not know who that person was.
It’s not difficult to get acquainted. The task force hired a portraitist and asked Jeliya to describe the person’s appearance, and the portraitist painted according to his description.
According to Jeliya’s description, the client was a woman with a hood, with short hair and a cold and beautiful appearance...
After the portrait was completed, the task force took a look, isn't this Lucit who was imprisoned for framing Bradrow a month ago?
It was determined that the customer who bought the magic crystal was Lucit, but the task force was not eager to arrest her, because this woman was a member of Gerlos, a merchant in Amn, and she was released on bail or the fine paid by Gerlos.
In Amn, the amount of money is linked to social status. Gerlos is a wealthy businessman, and his social status is correspondingly very high. According to intelligence, Lucit has been haunting Gerlos’ mansion in the port area. Hidden in the mansion.
To be cautious, the task force began to collect evidence from witnesses near the ore merchant's shop. After questioning the testimony of more than 300 citizens who lived nearby and frequented nearby, the clues gradually became clear.
Witnesses confirmed that just after Lucit purchased the magic crystal, the carriage that transported the magic crystal drove to the port area, and witnesses in the port area also confirmed that the carriage finally drove into the back alley of the Gerlos mansion.
After the carriage drove into the back alley, no witnesses saw it again.
The final goal of a series of clues is directed at the great businessman Gerlos.
Mayor Barana, who listened to the report from the task force, immediately remembered that on the night of the bombing, Bredrow raised suspicion of Melonia and Lucit, who had framed him, thinking that they were terrorists. Because the terrorist plan was undermined by Bradrow, he held a grudge and planned the bombing to retaliate.
The female mayor intuitively thought that it was impossible for two kind-hearted people to do this kind of thing, so she didn’t invest energy on this line to investigate. After the task force found a series of evidence and clues, she had to admit that she My intuition sometimes goes wrong (actually it didn’t go wrong).
"Immediately arrest the major suspect Lucit!"
The female mayor gave an order.
The Attorney General led the Amn guards to the Gerlos Mansion without a list, but they were stopped by the harpist guards at the door of the mansion, and they were not allowed to break into the harpist's secret base.
The secret base established by the Harp League in Amn is hidden from the Amn’s six-man council. Once the base is discovered by Amn officials, the Harpmen League will be very embarrassing and it will take a long time for both sides to wrestle diplomatically.
Any country in Faerun, even if it is a kind-hearted country, does not want the harpist agents to hide in their own country without reporting to the government.
What's more, Amn is not a country in the good camp. There are quite a lot of evil campers in the six-member council. God knows if these harpists are planning some "hoeing up" action against a big figure in the six-member council.
Once the Guards of Amn broke into the Gerlos Mansion, you could see a huge Mystra sculpture and a harpist-style decoration as soon as you entered the door.
This group of harpists are also very ill-informed. They are obviously spies. They set up a secret base. They also spent a lot of money to decorate it so stylishly. They are not afraid of someone sneaking in, and the secret camp will suddenly show up?
It's no wonder that the mages of the Santarin Society have been stalking nearby. Such obvious negligence must be to expose their deeds.
As long as it is decorated like a normal house, even if it encounters an official inspection by Amn, it doesn't have to be obstructed like today.
The Grand Prosecutor Bugarie even thought the building was suspicious. Even if the mansion belonged to the businessman Gerlos, the security team of the Amn City Hall wanted to enter and arrest individuals, and it would not react so fiercely that the gate was not allowed to enter.
Since these people showed their identity as the chief prosecutor, these people also dared to resist their orders and did not put the Amn regime in their eyes at all. They must be a group of outsiders. Bucharest thought there was nothing to say and gave an order. Just ask Amn soldiers to storm!
It's a pity that he came in a hurry this time, with only a small group of Amn soldiers, but only twelve people.
This group of Amn soldiers was actually defeated by the harpists who rushed out of the mansion for reinforcements!
The chief prosecutor Bugarie fled hurriedly under the cover of his adjutant, and the arrest operation failed.