Then he licked his lips and said, "In that case, I should eat what I purchased before it spoils. It can't spoil after I paid millions for it."
He said this as he went to the door. Once he reached the door, he opened it, grabbed Lance, and dragged her body into his room.
No one saw him do this because all of his guards had been sent away. This is also why no one was alarmed that Lance died. After all, no one noticed that she died.
He took her into his room and began the arduous work of extracting her Core Metac. This process was more tedious than normal because the fusion between the Core Metac and its host had deepened.
Her energy threads used to be scattered all over her body, but they have congregated on one spot in her brain and fused with that spot. This spot is the Mind Palace. It worked as an anchor resisting his attempt to pull the Core Metac out of her corpse.
