章 26: Dead man (1)

[There's something worse than dying. If you have visited <Chaos> at least once, you would know.]

-Yoo Surha, the 2nd Squadron Captain of [Rupture]

Episode 5. Dead man

Three days later.

Jaehwan was standing at the entrance of <Twilight's Fall> with his scabbard. The work that he thought would take one day actually took three, but it was still much shorter than the average of three weeks for processing a horn. Meikal and a few artisans came out to say goodbye.

"…Are you really going on your way?"

"Yeah, I got what I needed."

He also had some unexpected information. When Jaehwan [Understood] the [Craft], he acquired some interesting information. Those monsters were not naturally occurring. The Garnak horn had already been [Crafted] before they worked on it. That meant-

'Monsters are the creation of someone else.'

There was no telling who did it and for what purpose, but they were carefully crafted masterpieces for sure. Jaehwan tapped on the scabbard and said, "I like it."