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"W-what did you say? Say that again?"

Fang Yuan looked at Lilith in disbelief.

Lilith helplessly spread her hands.

She repeated what she had just said.

Then she added another sentence.

"So, my lord."

"Isn't this good news?"

Fang Yuan did not answer.

The sudden ups and downs left him feeling somewhat unreal.

"Is everything you said true?"

Lilith nodded heavily.

"Absolutely true."

"Before coming back, I made sure several times!"

Fang Yuan said suspiciously.

"But the mission says you encountered the Warlock inside the altar."

"You couldn't enter the altar!"

"How did that suddenly—"

"Also, is Warlock Jian alive or dead?"

"If she's alive—"

"Lilith."

"That would be!"

Lilith began to explain.

"Dead."

"The so-called Warlock Jian died long ago."

"What we saw was merely a ghostlike creature."

"After discovering Warlock Jian, she tried to guide us into the altar to explore it."

"For safety's sake, I initially sent only soldiers in with her."

"But they died very quickly."

"And Warlock Jian appeared again."

"That was when I vaguely formed a guess."

"She might have become something similar to an Earthbound Spirit."

"By luring us over, she was probably trying to kill us."

"So I left her alone for the time being."

"Instead, I chose to explore the outskirts."

"After that, Breni and Aria found the berserker orc den one after another."

"Fiona discovered a laboratory."

"After killing the berserker orcs, we found a stone tablet."

"It recorded the sacrificial text for offering sacrifices to the Green Dragon King."

"From this, we could confirm that this was the altar of the demigod Green Dragon King."

"None of this could actually tell me whether there was a divinity inside the altar."

"If this were the only altar."

"I might only be able to determine that the divinity was inside."

"The