On careful thought, it was only natural that the entrance to the ruins would be close to where the statue had been hidden.
"Even if they didn't dare hide something more dangerous than a relic, like an Old God statue, in their own base for fear that one mistake would doom them all, they still wouldn't hide it too far away from their base."
That was Shade's opinion.
The Noke Printing Factory, with its courtyard and three-story building, was where the entrance to the underground ruins was located. Blood of Mercury had spent money last winter to purchase the printing factory, which had been on the brink of bankruptcy, and secretly conducted excavation work there. The agent who had bought the factory was Mr. Pangdun, whose entire family had been murdered tonight.
The Silver-Eyed One wanted to kill him not only because this ordinary man had overreached himself, but likely also because it wanted everyone who knew the secret to disappear.
That was the information the Doctor had interrogated from the dream. But he had no interest whatsoever in the Sage Level (Level 2) relic, God's Gift Box. A relic with such a high danger rating had never been his objective.
On this rainy night, he stood beside the corpse and made his stance clear. He then looked at Miss Louisa, who shook her head as well:
"I don't want to risk going into some ancient ruin either, but the information itself is valuable. Once the Doctor obtains the Falsified Philosopher's Stone, we can consider submitting the information to the Academy."
Shade understood what she meant. It was to avoid alerting the Silver-Eyed One.
The Doctor and Miss Louisa looked at Shade together. Shade nodded and added:
"Don't worry. I'm only a First Ring Arcanist. How could I possibly have