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"Oh." With Audrey saying that, Susie asked no further questions. She stood obediently in place. "Then what should we do?"
"Right now, we..."
Audrey thought for a few seconds, looking toward where the flames had erupted in the real world. It was the residence of a Viscount she knew well. Judging by the explosion earlier, the main building had probably been completely destroyed, and the other party had used a gas explosion to erase the evidence.
The simplest, crudest method.
What should she do now?
The situation was too complicated and changing too rapidly. Even Audrey felt uncertain.
She stared toward the source of the explosion for a while. If the Church intended to contain the situation and rescue people, a localized downpour should already have extinguished the flames. But half a minute had passed, and the fire was still burning fiercely. Not only had it turned a sizable swath of the sky red, it also showed signs of spreading. It seemed the Church of the Storm also intended to let everyone and all the evidence burn to ashes.
The tremor earlier should already have woken the nearby residents. There's no need for me to enter their dreams to tell them to evacuate...
"Is the Church of the Storm's goal to wipe out the nobility completely?"
Audrey frowned.
"It looks like no one will come out of there alive. But eliminating all the nobles through a single dinner before the new year is impossible. No wonder the voice I heard said to wait until the New Year's banquet to act... However, without the royal family, the New Year's banquet can no longer bring over ninety percent of the nobility together in the palace as it did before. In that case, any day would be as good as another."
*No,