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Rain spoke up as soon as he heard. "I have a hidden safe house here. This way!"

With Rain leading them, the group soon reached the foot of a hill near the river.

The river rushed past, carrying the chill of early spring. Along its banks, great chunks of soaked earth occasionally collapsed into the water.

After several twists and turns, Rain pushed aside a stone, revealing a damp cave behind it.

The entrance was small, but inside was a room of roughly five square meters. Water seeped down its walls, and it held some emergency supplies and medicine.

Evan, now dressed in work clothes, said, "You two stand guard outside. I'll need about twenty minutes."

The siblings nodded and went outside to guard the entrance.

Evan first cast Spiritual Concealment. His Cane then transformed into the grayish-white, S-shaped Ritual Knife, and he set up two more rituals to ward off prying eyes.

Once that was done, he made a show of drawing a few utterly useless Magic Arrays on the ground and placed Eddie's body in the middle.

Then he laid his palm on Eddie's right shoulder, where the mutation was most grotesque, and released his instinct.

In an instant, Evan saw his hand turn to copper.

Then the graves, skeletons, and tattered banners he had seen before rapidly converged on his palm.

At the same time, a symbol appeared on his copperized hand.

It was a pitch-black circle with a round notch on either upper side, making it look like a bottle.

It was the symbol of Black Sun's Wings.

Evan could clearly sense that Black Sun's Wings and Copper Plague had formed a peculiar partnership.

Put simply, Black Sun's Wings was now the big brother, while Copper Plague was the little brother trailing behind it.

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