*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 Noel to the outside of

to hide behind the bushes while pointing

eyebrows and didn't believe

turned out Anna had found the mine. There was a huge entrance to the small

him was the cage that trapped a dying woman and

After bonding more with the commoner in the fort, he could

But what infuriated him the most were ten people surrounding

and her ragged appearance, it was

could hear. "This is disgusting. The woman was played by them until they were half-dead before they used the body

past life, she once

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

he took a

his head helplessly. "I lost my

did you say earlier? A few days

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

felt disturbed by

not safe to charge right now." Noel glanced at Anna and said, "I'm going to move up our schedule

didn't bother to say something about her death. It would be amusing to him if she experienced

know what to say other than it's amazing.' Anna thought for a moment before noticing

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