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Sprinting with a few jumps to the clearing, he noticed that most of the traps had been triggered. Lu Yan was following him closely, but her self-preservation instincts had already caused her to fall "slightly" behind.

Jake expected to find a devastated clearing with potentially a ruined house and signs of confrontation, but what greeted him instead was a peaceful clearing and an untouched stone house. The greenish shimmering due to the Naequat deposit below was starting to fade with sunrise, and there was no hint of a deadly fight.

Quelling his doubts, he sank underground and reappeared under the tile floor of the house. He then spread out his Spirit Body to scan the Aetheric signatures present, but the feedback he received made him shudder.

There were way too many people!