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Footsteps echoed over the damp earth as the storm had finally subsided.

The forest was destroyed and lifeless, blackened in a radius of nearly a kilometer from the battleground.

Fortunately, they had moved far enough from the mansion; otherwise, Sigrid would have been exposed.

"I think explanations are unnecessary," Sigrid stood before them, ready to be brief and to the point.

This encounter with her ancestors was more bitter than sweet.

"Mr. Vlad has probably already explained our dea