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El-Cid said, —That was a close one. Good call.
Yeah… I’m not even sure why I did it, but I’m glad I did, Leon replied in relief.
It was a cunning, calculated trap. The Evil Order had laid multiple detection seals throughout the passage that would bind any intruder’s feet the moment they triggered. Once that happened, the Evil Order would unleash Apophis to scour the tunnel clean.
Even for an Aura Master, surviving that would’ve been nothing short of a miracle.
Karen shouted, “Mr. Hero! That thing just now—it was the same one we saw in the desert, right?”
Her face had gone pale. Leon nodded, letting out a weary sigh.
“Mhm. But this time, it wasn’t just a fragment. It was the real body.”
“We could’ve all died before we even realized what happened…”
“Yeah. We barely made it out,” he agreed.
There was no way the Evil Order had complete control over that being. They had likely left it under a conditional command, something like ‘devour anything that stirs in the depths.’
We won’t be using the tunnels again, Leon thought grimly.
Even he didn’t have the nerve to re-enter a passage prowled by a monster like Apophis. Had...
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