The Mysterious Man

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As everyone slowly walked back to the village, Shade suddenly noticed something strange with his sharp eyes, suddenly furrowing his eyebrows and looking into the cloudy sky.

"…"

However, after realizing that there was really nothing, he moved back with the rest, and decided to not overthink it for the moment…

Of course, although there was no physical object there, there was indeed a pair of eyes watching over them.

The figure of a pale man with silver hair, wrinkles over his face, and purple-red eyes looked into a crystal ball, as if he were pondering something.

His robes were black and purple, with several eyes engraved on them made out of golden-colored threads.

He looked at the crystal orb expressionlessly…

"Hah… To think you would get to free her from her shackles in such a way… Ninhursag… You've always been a hopeless fool. A woman shackled to stupid and senseless traditions…" he said.