The moment he received Vicente's order, Casey made his four pentagrams appear in front of his Magic Gem in the shape of a third eye.
Mana vibrated on his forehead, making it seem as if there really was an eye there, gradually opening as he looked into Lauren's opaque eyes.
Little by little, he put ordinary visual information aside, seeing the mental structures of the black-haired girl in front of him, but also her memories.
What Casey first saw were Lauren's memories of the last 13 years or so. It was the time she officially joined Nixlas' Shadows and grew up in that headquarters, with the many missions she had carried out in those years.
They had taken Lauren to the Nixlas' Shadows headquarters, where she had been brainwashed by the sect and then learned the essential training of sect members. After two years, she left for her first missions in the south of the continent, where the sect usually sent its most talented junior disciples, given the lower risks of the area.
