*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.

house, leading

she lowered her body to hide behind the bushes while pointing forward.

furrowed his eyebrows and didn't believe what he

Anna had found the mine. There was a huge entrance to the small hill, but that was

the cage that

in the fort, he could

take out his sword and slice the demon. But what infuriated him the most were ten people surrounding the cage.

sound, but from the bruises on her body and her ragged appearance, it was clear

was played by

same time, Anna couldn't say more than that. In her past life, she once treated people like

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

as he took

his head

what did you say earlier? A few days to a

they kidnapped and fed the demons. In other words, the moment they

also felt

said, "I'm going to move up our schedule a bit.

to him if she experienced that kind of torture before her death, but Noel

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

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