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"Move aside, or do you want to die?" Li Yue waved at the merchants and guards, signaling them to clear the way.

Although not everyone recognized Huntelaar, the Loutown Merchant Guild was once a subsidiary of the Hunter Country, so they had certainly heard of this Rank 8 Hunter's name.

There had been sporadic sightings of Lord Huntelaar before, but they were of no real significance; now that this hunter, closest to the Hunter King, was right in front of them, the merchants were naturally stunned.

Huntelaar, on the other hand, had an embarrassed expression—he used to do whatever he wanted in Hunter Country, but always as the leader. He never thought that one day he would become a mere echo.

"Move aside," Huntelaar's mind was now filled with the box in the Shadow Space, and he had no time to exchange pleasantries with the merchant guild.

"But... this..." The materials in the warehouse had been eaten up by Huntelaar and Yingying, and the merchant guild wasn't owned by just one merchant, so they wanted to delay until the Scavengers or the New Church arrived on the scene.

By then, even if they couldn't stop them, the merchant guild could ask them for more compensation.

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"Then don't blame us..." Li Yue brought out Huntelaar just to test his prestige in the Loutown Merchant Guild. Now, seeing knights and clockwork soldiers rushing towards them through his X-ray vision, he wouldn't delay any longer.

"Open the way!" With Li Yue's order, Huntelaar activated all his traps, causing an explosion at the wall broken by Gamma.

The wagon horses were about to move, but the wavering will of the merchants led to their hesitant actions, failing to stop Li Yue.

The shadow pulled the two of them, instantly teleporting into the hole, and then all the way down—entering the soil was like a big fish returning to the river, and with a flick of its tentacles, it covered a hundred meters.

And none of the merchant guild's guards were knights who had mastered "Duel," so they lost sight of them in a moment of distraction.

"Chase... them?" A guard timidly asked the merchant.

"You go?" The leading merchant retorted.

"The wagon horses..."

"Tomorrow morning is when we leave Cracked Gold Mountain. I need their strength..." The merchant shook his head. "Ensuring the safe transport of the bulk of the goods to the Holy City is more important, and the loss of this last batch of goods is entirely due to the dereliction of duty of the Cracked Gold Mountain Scavengers. These need Kingston... oh no, the Holy Mine Town government to compensate."

The treasure chests and materials in the warehouse were almost completely looted by Li Yue. Fortunately, the guards did not directly clash with the Shadow Demon, otherwise the loss would have been even greater.

Seeing that the merchant had said so, the guards stopped talking.

"Lord Huntelaar... why is he with the Shadow Demon? Has he been corrupted by it...?" Compared to feeling sorry for the goods, the merchant was more puzzled about the relationship between the long-vanished Huntelaar and the demon.

So the merchant told the wagon horses to make the scene more chaotic, as if it had been through a major battle, and quietly waited for the Scavengers to arrive and demand compensation.

And Li Yue and Huntelaar didn't take long to move from the merchant guild's warehouse to the mine tunnels beneath Holy Mine Town.

Holy Mine is different from the other four types of minerals. The reserves are mainly concentrated in the mines, so the mine tunnels under Holy Mine Town are not spacious, and have been abandoned for a long time, clean but also very dilapidated.

Since pulling Li Yue out of the warehouse, Yingying had stopped exerting force, focusing on dealing with Gamma in the Shadow Space, while Li Yue used his tentacles to drag Huntelaar underground.

The musical notes stirring Yingying's body had lasted for about a quarter of an hour, and now they had calmed down.

"How is it?" Li Yue asked Yingying about Gamma's condition.

"He is quiet, waiting to see you," Yingying was a little uncomfortable, and Li Yue quickly strengthened his self-healing.

"Let him out, I can make him completely quiet," Huntelaar was very eager to grasp this "only prey" and absorb it into his body.

Even if he didn't know who Gamma was, or what the effect would be of using a poet who was about to advance to Rank 9 as the main material to advance to "Hunter King," Huntelaar still wanted to seize this only opportunity to escape Li Yue's control.

"Not in a hurry, let him lie inside first, we have more important things to do," Li Yue didn't know what Huntelaar was thinking, but he didn't have the idea of letting Gamma out now.

"What is it?" Huntelaar was puzzled.

Although there hadn't been too fierce a battle just now, Yingying's condition wasn't good, and the Scavengers and the New Church were searching for the Shadow Demon above... What was this Li planning to do?

"We can't waste this opportunity that the New Church has mobilized~" Li Yue fully strengthened Yingying's self-healing. "The pursuit must be fast, and the expansion of the results must be fast... We must take advantage of their busy search for us to steal their home!"

"Steal their home? The merchant guild's warehouse has already been taken by us, what other home is there?" Huntelaar couldn't keep up with Li Yue's thinking at all.

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"You're going to the church?" Yingying read Li Yue's thoughts.

"That's right, the New Church and Jesse will definitely spend some time at the Loutown Merchant Guild, figuring out what we've done, what we want to do, and then tracking us..." Li Yue looked back in the direction of the warehouse, unable to see clearly, but he could guess, "Then we'll take advantage of this time to light up the church."

"Light up the church? Light a fire?" Huntelaar didn't know about the existence of the map in Li Yue's mind, and thought that the "lighting up" he was talking about was a real lighting up.

"Your decision is not wrong," Yingying, seeing that even Huntelaar was so surprised by Li Yue's decision, was even more convinced that humans would never have imagined that a Shadow Demon would appear in the church at this time.

"What's more, we still have a Rank 8 hunter with full materials by our side, wouldn't it be a pity not to use him?" Li Yue patted Huntelaar's shoulder, as if solemnly introducing a foreign aid.

Me?

Huntelaar didn't expect that he had just obtained a large pile of materials from the warehouse, and hadn't even thought about how to use them to seize Gamma's treasure chest, when he was targeted by this demon?

"In a while, we'll smash open the church, and you'll set up your various traps outside, understand?" Having broken into four towns' churches, Li Yue already had a high degree of proficiency, clearly knowing that his destination was in the Admonishment Hall.

Huntelaar only needed to help divert attention.

"But the church..." Huntelaar was a hunter, tending to be cautious, and didn't quite understand the strength of the church, subconsciously wanting to raise objections.

"Make it clear, this is not a discussion," Li Yue had no intention of taking Huntelaar's advice, "Just knock open the door of the church for me, make the sound as loud as possible, so that I can enter the Admonishment Hall..."

Although Huntelaar knew Li Yue's destination at this moment, he didn't understand his motives at all—a demon, going to admonish in the New Church's Admonishment Hall?

What kind of weird ritual was this...?

"I'll call you when it's time to retreat," Li Yue patted Huntelaar's shoulder, "You just escape."

"Remember, if you are caught, even if you are about to be tortured to death, you must not reveal any information related to me and the Shadow Demon," Li Yue instructed Huntelaar.

Huntelaar knew that this was not an "instruction" at all, but a new clause suddenly added to the soul contract.

Obviously, from now on, he was the Shadow Demon's vanguard, scapegoat, and shield.

"Don't worry, I'm not letting you die, I won't let you die so early..." Li Yue's comfort seemed to be having the opposite effect.

"I have helpers in the church, there won't be too much danger," Li Yue added, "Probably."

Helpers?

Huntelaar's mind raced.

"Let's go!"