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Not far from Carne Village lay an exceptionally vast clearing.
This was where Noah and Albedo had captured the entire Sunlight Scripture of the Slane Theocracy alive.
At that moment, the vast clearing looked quite devastated.
Specifically, a small area in the center of the clearing looked as though it had been scorched, turned completely black.
And within that small patch of charred ground stood a figure.
She was a petite girl dressed in a red-and-black, formal gown-like princess dress, with long silver-gray hair tied into a ponytail that gleamed brilliantly beneath the sunlight, and an exquisitely beautiful face.
The beautiful little girl resembled an incomparably noble young princess, and the sight of her standing beneath the sunlight was beautiful beyond measure.
Unfortunately, that small patch of completely charred ground utterly ruined the beautiful atmosphere.
Moreover, a closer look revealed something else.
The girl, who looked like an incomparably noble little princess, hung half-suspended as though she were a puppet dangling from invisible strings. Her arms drooped at her sides, her body seemed entirely limp, and her scarlet eyes had no focus at all, making her look rather eerie.
"Buzz—!"
At one point, darkness suddenly surged forth from the front of the clearing, gathering in the air and forming a half-elliptical shape.
It was the shape of a door.
Several figures emerged from that door made entirely of pitch-black darkness, appearing out of thin air in the clearing.
They were Noah and the NPCs of the Nazarick Underground Great Tomb.
The moment she arrived, Albedo immediately spoke.
"Stay alert!"
The NPCs of the Nazarick Underground Great Tomb who had emerged