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Ophelia had sent him to find the whereabouts of Oliver, the clan's fourth young master, who had seemingly slipped away from home in secret.

It had been a while since then, and they had not been able to find him thus far.

Their clan, being one of the finest in covert operations, assassinations, and intelligence work, could not find their own blood.

A shame that no one dared utter.

It was an embarrassment to not just him, the commander of such missions, but to the entire clan as well.

He was embarrassed to even stand in front of her with nothing. He was always one of the best in his field, and today he had been dealt with such a situation.

They had actually managed to trace his last location to a typical human city.

In one of the backstreets, in the cellar of an old house which from the exterior seemed normal, there was much hidden.

A disguise of decay covering something worse still underneath.

When the forces of the clan arrived at the site, they were greeted by some exorcists and squads of local police.

It seemed that they were summoned by someone to the site of a crime—a crime committed by heretics.

The team was taken aback on learning that there was demonic involvement in such a small town.

They sat down right away. The police were taken out of the scene, the wayward exorcists were also interviewed separately, and the team took care to pull out every last detail they knew.

When they broke into the basement of the run-down house, they examined each inch of it, and it was a clear den of evil heretics. And the miasma already gone from the air, the runic symbols and arrays—the whole thing made it seem like the hand of demon worshippers.

And in a corner so far out of the way, they discovered two individuals, one male and one female, both unconscious and emitting dark espera weakly.

It was clear that the two were the heretics responsible for this chaos.

But something was amiss with those heretics.

They had been exorcised in a coarse way.

Rough, but intentional.

Yes, someone had tried to perform an exorcism on the two heretics.

Although it was a clumsy technique, it did work to some extent—the man was free of danger and the dark espera was reduced to the minimum in his body. He was just a step away from being free from the control of demons.

Meanwhile, the lady was still in pain, but after a complete scanning by the exorcists, it was ascertained that she initially was stained with the dark espera to a profound extent, and whoever conducted the exorcism ensured blocking the dark espera from devouring her heart.

If the dark espera had already eaten away her heart, too, she would have been irretrievable and could only be exiled.

Exiled—or reduced to ashes.

The woman was promptly professionally exorcised by experienced exorcists of the clan.

They needed to get answers from the two of them as soon as possible.

The person who conducted the rustic exorcism was undoubtedly Oliver. All of them could infer as much.

Normally, once the heretics had been saved from exorcism, they would need to be rehabilitated, in which they would be placed under close watch to determine if their mental state was normal and if the demons were not controlling them.

But of course, they didn't have the time for that. And even if they did, chances were high that these two would already have forgotten what had transpired when they were heretics.

It was one of the byproducts of making heretics normal people again. Some viewed it as a positive byproduct of exorcism, which enabled the victims to live a normal life again without the haunting of their past.

But to exorcists, it was a loss. If only they could recall their memories of being a heretic, they could have gained lots of concealed knowledge about demons with ease.

Even while extracting dark espera from the victim's bodies, the brain undergoes a tremendous impact, thus making the heretics-turned-'once-heretics' lose their memories subsequent to a successful exorcism.

It takes a highly refined and high skill level to store those memories even after exorcism.

The group had intended to take the two heretics to the clan for such an exorcism by a master exorcist, but there was limited time, and they were already badly off.

In addition, Oliver had already initiated a primitive exorcism on the two, leaving no possibility of retrieving the memories.

Thus they had no other option than performing an on-site exorcism on the two.

Well, naturally, they didn't mind whether they died or not. The Mystic Purge Clan did not care about heretics, whereas other clans attempted to purify and rescue the victims.

In the opinion of the clan, if the heretics could be of use, then and only then should they be more important than everything else.

And during that moment, these two heretics—useless or not—still remained tied to their missing young master.

A thin thread, but the sole one they had.

During the exorcism, the other members were checking every corner of the room.

Rotting flesh, bones, skulls… equipment to conduct black magic was all in the room. There were precise documents detailing timelines.

These heretics had been residing in the city for quite some time. Their purpose was to create a better chimera.

One of the taboos of the world.

A chimera was a very risky creature, sometimes needing the services of a team of exorcists headed by a senior exorcist based on the severity.

From the police, they were informed that Oliver was the one to have interacted with the chimera. The rest of the team members were in the park where the chimera fetus had been implanted.

They saw evident indications of a fight—the high espera fluctuations in the air, the fading sparks of powerful dark espera…

They concluded that a chimera was born ultimately, and their young master engaged in a fight with that creature, somehow succeeding in killing the chimera.

With this conclusion, they could not help but become incredulous.

However much they pondered it, this was an impossible situation.

A fledgling, untrained young master defeating a chimera alone? No. it defied reason.

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