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"That's not right," Edward suddenly said. "The True Creator didn't spit out the Bound One's Uniqueness!!"
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Backlund, Loen Kingdom.
"All squad members are in position."
"The Sealed Artifacts are ready for use at any time."
"Good." Soest, a Sequence 6, turned to Leonard Mitchell, who was also concealed in the shadows. "Divination indicates that the Sanguine Emlyn White in the Harvest Church may be a Sanguine Viscount, skilled in negative forces and moon-related Beyonder powers. We have relatively little intelligence on the Sanguine and can't accurately describe his Sequence name or Beyonder abilities. We need to be careful during combat."
Leonard nodded gravely.
Leonard's grave expression startled Soest. He thought his teammate was nervous about the coming battle.
Although Soest didn't think that should happen given Leonard's combat experience so far-quite apart from the many missions he had taken part in after joining the Red Gloves, Leonard and Daly had even dared to leave the squad and act on their own when facing Ince Zangwill, already a demigod at the time, and 0-08, so there was no reason to be nervous about dealing with a small church that only had a bishop and a clergyman-he still offered some quiet reassurance:
"We don't need to fight Emlyn White directly. Another Senior Deacon will handle that. We need to work together to trap Bishop Utravsky. Although Warriors gain mental resistance at the mid-Sequences and can see through illusions, we excel at teamwork too."
Leonard listened quietly and nodded, his expression still grave.
Of course, he couldn't tell Soest, "Because I have some personal ties with that Emlyn White." Strictly speaking, Beyonders from the three churches who had visited this part of Backlund all had times when they needed help. Who hadn't exchanged at least a few words with the Harvest