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The room fell into silence for a moment.
This silence lasted for a good ten seconds before Agatha heard the deep, hoarse voice of Bishop Ivan from beneath the bandages, "Oh—"
"…Your reaction is a bit unexpected."
"Because your information is too unexpected," Bishop Ivan seemed to finally come to his senses. He adjusted his sitting posture and spoke with extra seriousness, "You're saying that the Boiling Gold veins of Frost City-State were exhausted decades ago? Is that the truth you uncovered down there?"
"Yes, at the deepest part of the second waterway there is a door, possibly sealed by the first city council. Behind that door is a mine shaft long depleted—judging by its location, it should be at the bottom of the mining site, in the enrichment area, theoretically the last to be mined…"