Chapter 393 - Is Still About The Black Daggers.

"Heh? Are you saying that Sei-chan will be able to help? Should I get him here?" Maria asked.

"Nah, not really, I had briefly checked that dead body, there is pretty much nothing left, most of his soul had been destroyed by that life force corrosion of Itsuki. I am fortunate enough to be able to collect a final piece of his memory fragment before it shattered along with his soul. But that's all and it doesn't help much." said Chris as he is trying to get up from the couch but is too weak to even move his hand.

"Don't force yourself too much, if you are not an immortal, you would have already got killed by that life force corrosion for not less than ten times. Even with your indefinite amount of life force, such a long and direct exposure to the life force corrosion would still cause a great harm to your vitality, so stay still if you could." said Ben, kind of dissing.

"You too, it will certainly be an exhausting day for you today. If you excluded me, you still have five more patients to take care of, and adding Ruby, it will be six. Oh! I forgot to include Seito and Yuki who are also injured just now." said Chris.

"Shut up." said Ben, without even showing any emotional changes.

With this, both Chris and Ben stopped talking and leaves Maria in an awkward silence...

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A few hours later, after Chris had recovered a bit from the life force corrosion, he teleported everyone back to the secret base. After settling down Itsuki and Ai along with everything else, they have an emergency meeting.

"I see, so it was a jewelry and antique store huh? That's a weird combination. And I never heard about such a store before, is it newly opened?" Chris asked, trying to find some useful clues from Seito and Yuki.

"Well, it's kind of like a traveling merchant that changes their location once a year." said Seito.

"Traveling merchant? Hmm... Did you buy anything else from them?" Chris asked.

"Yes, I brought a gemstone pendant necklace for Yuki." said Seito as he took out a nicely decorated box from his pocket.

Chris opened the box and examined the necklace for a while a frowned.

"Tsk... This is a second-hand jewellery." said Chris, a bit troubled.

"What?" Seito is a bit surprised by Chris's words.

"Hmm? What does that mean?" Maria asked, rather confused.

"It means that the destroyed jewelry and antique store is a second-hand merchant store." said Ben.

"Yeah, I know, but is there a problem?" Maria asked.

"Well, being a second-hand merchant store means that it is not very possible to track the source of the goods sold in the store since all the second-hand goods are sold to the store by random individuals, if you know how a second-hand merchant store works." said Ben.

"Ah... Does that mean our final clue just broke?" said Maria, who finally understood the whole situation.

"Mhmm..." Ben nodded, rather impressed by his own explanations.

"Ah... Then how should we help Itsuki-chan?" Maria asked, rather concerned.

"Well... There's still one last way." said Chris.

"Don't you dare to do it." said Ben before Chris could finish his words.

"Ben, this is a dire situation, it's not like we have any better option, don't we? Moreover, if we could find some important clues within a short time frame, it shouldn't be a big deal." said Chris.

"Tsk... Fine. I will just give you five minutes, anything more than that, I will forcibly nullify your magic with my special drugs." said Ben, a bit unwillingly.

"Thanks for your consideration." said Chris.

"Uhm... Dr. Ben, may I know what is Chris planning to do?" Seito asked, rather curious.

"He is planning to use his sense link on that pair of daggers and track down every single person that had touched the daggers, before sifting out useful information from that huge pool of possibly useless information." said Ben, in a disagreeing tone.

"Ah... That sounds crazy." said Seito, both amazed and astonished...

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Later, in the lounge, Chris is holding both of the black daggers in his right hand with his eyes closed. Maria and Ben are guarding at his side acting as magic supports.

"Sense link..."

With this, Chris activated his sense link without any specific target, within seconds, more than thousands of scenes and locations of different people flashed in his head. Then, out of all the scenes and people, he noticed a familiar figure which caused him to open his eyes.

"Hmm... That was unexpectedly fast. Found anything?" Ben asked.

Chris nodded.

"Chris-chan, what is it?" Maria asked, rather curious.

"Dominic. I saw Dominic." said Chris.

"Hehhhh?! Uncle Dominic had touched these daggers before?" Maria exclaimed in shock.

"Aside from Dominic, I also detected some special individuals that might need some extra attention. But before that, Maria, I have an arranged meeting with Mr. Thomas tomorrow morning, thus I will be leaving Dominic to you." said Chris.

"Oh... Okay... Hmm? Eh? You mean you are assigning a special mission for me?" Maria asked, rather excited.

"Yup, but it shouldn't be too hard I guess." said Chris, with a shrug.

"Oh my! Chris-chan is finally giving me a special mission after all these days!" Maria murmured in excitement.

"Haha... He is not even listening to me." said Chris as he laughed awkwardly...

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*Something out of the story

Sky: "Dear readers."

Chris: "Hmm?"

Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."

Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."

Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."

Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."

Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."

Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.

Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows  two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."

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