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"Great Archbishop, do you intend to?"
"Such a powerful yet strangely behaving outsider roaming freely outside could be problematic. If he's infected and turns into a beast, I'm sure it would cause significant losses to the hunters," said Amelia.
"You're right, then I shall personally communicate with him," nodded Beethoven.
"I would appreciate that, Master Beethoven."
Beethoven left, and the grand doors closed once again.
In the vast sacrificial hall, only Amelia remained.
She lifted her head to gaze upon the skull atop the altar.
"Teacher Dickens, perhaps this time you can be laid to rest," she murmured, caressing the golden pendant.
Long, slender fingertips sprouted black nails.
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"So those guys really plan to keep tailing me?"
Liu Zheng, while dissecting the corpse of a beast, spoke somewhat exasperatedly.
They had started following him almost as soon as he left the Suffering Church.
