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"The strength of the Flying Dragon is getting stronger, I truly look forward to it taking another leap forward,"
Ash and Morak exchanged a glance, also feeling a sense of the absurd and anticipation in breaking through what they thought was possible.
They had a sense of achievement in "cultivating."
Just back at the camp.
They saw the Flying Dragon comfortably sprawled in its nest, performing a Purification ritual on a severed head it had bitten off.
Carefully withdrawing his gaze from the priests and paladins, Kris turned to Alice who was crunching numbers, and asked thoughtfully in a low voice,
"They don't all seem to be from the Goddess Church, do they?"
Without changing her expression, Alice nodded as a matter of course, finished tallying up their gains, and handed the list to Ash,
"They are apprentices raised by the Bay Territory, and a small part might join the Goddess Church, but most will work for the territory..."
