Counterattack (11)

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Beneath the Academy territory's cemetery.

The farthest place from the dormitory where the fresh-faced cadets lived.

An underground resting place for the dead.

Inside that ossuary, which had been expanded again and again until it had become a maze, two shadows flickered.

“There was definitely witness testimony...”

A corridor where broken coffins gaped from every niche, with a single mana lamp flickering coldly above those gaping mouths.

The soldier with the torch carefully scanned the corridor and said to the comrade who had come with him,

“Did you check over there?”

“No, I think the pilgrim must have heard wrong.”...