Whispers of the Machine Age
Chapter 3031

Shattered Stars

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"This is easy. Take this. Whenever you need me, find any corpse and bury this in its chest. I'll be able to remotely control that corpse."

What Priest Augustus gave Shade was a small piece of pale bone, though it was probably not the Angel Remains Shade had been seeking. As for the priest's method, while it did not sound like something a righteous character should use, Doctor Schneider had said when Shade first joined the group that Lat Augustus specialized in necromantic Thaumaturgy.

If Shade remembered correctly, the priest himself had also said that he knew a particularly exquisite Corpse Explosion spell.

After settling the plan with Priest Augustus, Shade purchased another batch of potions from him as important supplies for the upcoming Battle of Vesta Woodland. He then continued on with Little Mia to Doctor Schneider's psychiatric clinic in the east of the city.

After getting out of the carriage, he looked up and saw lights shining through every window of the clinic. He had originally worried that the doctor was seeing patients, but after the maid at the front desk announced him, the doctor appeared very quickly.

"Come on, let's go to the 2nd Floor reception room."

"No patients right now?"

"Of course there are. I'm a very busy man. But the patient was just hypnotized to sleep, so I have an hour. I don't even need to turn around to know what you're thinking."

The doctor led Shade up the stairs.

"It's a patient with insomnia. Although I do charge by the hour here, I'm not so unscrupulous as to use hypnotherapy on every patient."

Shade, holding the cat, asked curiously, "But is insomnia within the scope of a psychiatric clinic?"

"Detective, theoretically speaking, as long as people are willing to pay, I can treat any

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