Lucius is already not feeling good.
There has to be a caged Messenger in the Serenity Hall. However, it died because of him.
He has to replace this Creature as quickly as possible… If he didn't do that, he would have to pay a huge amount of money which he didn't want to do. After all, his salary as a Professor isn't that much, to begin with.
The only reason he's staying here is that he can use top-class Facilities and plenty of resources for his research and all of that for free as long as he's working as a Professor.
In the meantime, while Lucius' heart was bleeding, Vale looked at the message that he got after touching the corpse of the Creature.
[ Monster corpse has been discovered. Would you like to extract it? ]
'Monster?' Vale repeated in his mind.
'No wonder…'