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"Mmmh, mmh–"
Isabella shook her head quickly, a sign for Alaric to close his mouth and not say anything more that could worsen the situation. However, Alaric had already considered all of this from the beginning.
Back when Nightshade mansion was attacked and destroyed overnight, almost all the wealth inside was taken by the enemy. But none of them knew that Nightshade had another place to store the remaining treasure.
Only about thirty percent of the wealth was kept inside the mansion, the remaining seventy percent was in a place where only Alaric, the last surviving Nightshade descendant, knew the location.
The topic of this treasure had come up before, and many people had tried their luck digging through the remains of the mansion and excavating the earth, searching for
