Lich for Hire - Chapter 253: Milena's Acting Ability

Not long after, a violent explosion tore through the magnificent palace. The thunderous blast echoed hundreds of kilometers through the underground.

Amid the chaos, many of the slaves enslaved by the undead queen seized the opportunity to escape.

Ambrose and Milena were mixed in among them.

This was the first lesson Ambrose taught Milena: if you want to deceive others, you must make detailed preparations.

This wasn't meaningless roleplay, like what Catherine had engaged in. Rather, every aspect of their cover had to connect logically, each detail serving a purpose.

Simply claiming to be runaway slaves wouldn't convince anyone.

Only when something truly went wrong within the Undead Queen's domain—only when large numbers of slaves genuinely did manage to flee—would their identities hold up under scrutiny.

There were many escapees: gnomes, drow, gray dwarves, and even some mycelids and rarer races.

The explosion had...