*Creak!*

*Creak!*

A sound of the bending wood echoed in the silent house. Although the house was still intact, there were numerous items scattered on the ground. It was clear that the house had been ransacked.

Noel, searching for the clues about the map, entered this house with precaution. Despite this house being the seventh house he investigated, he didn't lower his guard, thinking the potential of a small demon left behind by the bandits.

'Still, this is a quite full house. Looking at the papers that are scattered around, it's clear that this person knows how to read and write. But because of the mine operation, there are a few records about the mine, making this village have a better literacy skill than the rest.' Noel thought while roaming around the house.

Suddenly, he stumbled upon a small box on the ground. It was already half opened, so he approached the box and opened it.

The inside was only a two sheets of paper, overlapping each other. Due to the position of the box and the paper, Noel knew this box had a quite amount of jewelries before. But now, there were only these two rolled paper left.

Still, the fact they were in this box meant the paper was quite important.

He took out the paper and opened it before gasping. "Got it."

As expected, the paper was related to the mine. The first paper was a map of the mine while the second one was the deed of the mine.

Unfortunately, before he could look at the map thoroughly, Anna entered the house while saying in a low voice. "Noel. Follow me."

"What's wrong?" Noel glanced at her while rolling the paper again, putting it in his bag.

anything. She simply left the house, leading

lowered her body to hide behind the bushes while pointing forward. "Look at

and didn't believe

the mine. There was a huge entrance

was the cage that trapped a dying woman and

could see people equally now. That was

infuriated him the most

sound, but from the bruises on her body and her ragged appearance, it was clear that she had been treated cruelly. And she soon died after getting bit by the

only they could hear. "This is disgusting. The woman was played by them until they

more than that. In her past life, she once treated people like that too. That was why she became

few days to a week." Noel narrowed his eyes, glaring at them coldly. Anna suddenly covered his eyes when she felt a bit of killing intent leaking from his gaze. She didn't want them to be exposed, so she pulled him back while saying,

body trembled as he took a deep

Noel shook his head

earlier? A

other words, the moment they raided the village, they had no more humans to play

felt disturbed

now." Noel glanced at Anna and said, "I'm going to move up our schedule a bit. If possible, I'm planning to save whoever manages to

was the first time Noel didn't bother to say something about her death. It would be amusing to him if she experienced that kind of torture before her death,

say other than it's amazing.' Anna thought for a moment before

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