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Catherine had secured the first dungeon while Anton was still with the group on their first reunion.
The contract was straightforward: clear SSS-ranked dungeons, deliver the loot to a designated collection point, retain twenty percent of the total haul as his fee. The dungeons were spread across the empire's geography — north, south, east, and west, as though whoever had arranged them had a sense of symmetry. Catherine had simply known where they were and had the connections to secure the rights before anyone else could.
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Province of Velth, northern empire. Month one.
The entrance materialized at the bottom of a lake.
