Arcane Detective of the Steam Age
Chapter 286

A hidden plot or an open scheme?

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After obtaining the Holy Relic Stone Disc, Li Wei went back to meet up with Katie and the others. Katie had been about to tear down the Academy, so she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him come out.

When Katie tossed aside the five-meter-thick stone pillar she was holding, Li Wei and Sophia breathed sighs of relief too.

This girl really would tear it down!

The three of them returned to the Church to rest for the night, and the two women also saw the other half of the Holy Relic Stone Disc Li Wei had obtained.

"It doesn't look all that special."

Katie curiously fitted the pieces of the Holy Relic Stone Disc together. The two discs quickly formed an eye, though the middle was still missing.

That was the last piece they needed to retrieve.

"Maybe it only does something once it's set into place."

Li Wei shrugged, and Harold, who had stayed in the Church all this time, nodded.

"Exactly. Although it is called the Holy Relic Stone Disc, it is merely a key-a key to unlocking the seal. Now, we only lack the final piece."

"So next is the Church in the Inner City?"

Li Wei stared at the Strange Man, who nodded.

"That's right. The final Holy Relic is there. The rest is up to you. Once you undo the seal, the darkness shrouding this city will disappear, and you will be able to leave."

As Li Wei watched the Strange Man, his expression remained unchanged, but inwardly, he was full of doubts.

He was almost certain that Deans had orchestrated everything that had happened in the Fishing Village and the Academy, and that his purpose had been to make the people there protect the Holy Relic Stone Disc. In other words,

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