Chapter 274: Hunting Shadows

XENOIS

"Lumina, reach out to Lynn," I continued. "See if she has any contacts who specialize in light magic or shadow manipulation. We need someone who can help us counter these things."

"What about Lyn?" Ollie asked. "He helped Mom before, right? Could he help again?"

"Maybe," I said, though the thought of asking Zade for more help made me uncomfortable. We'd already imposed on his hospitality for two months. Asking him to send Lyn to help defend our territory felt like admitting we couldn't handle our own problems.

"Let's keep that as a backup option."

"And what are you going to do?" Lumina asked.

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