Truly Excellent Quality

"Someone once said that when a person realizes they can become part of a great cause, they can do anything without hesitation. Have you heard that saying?"

Evenson paced continuously through a dimly lit hall, preaching as he went. He looked very different from usual. He was no longer wearing his old Corruptor Set, but a newly made outfit.

It was a robe primarily black in color, threaded through with magical patterns embroidered in pure gold filament. Most striking were his pauldrons. No longer sewn from stiff cloth, they were made from a lightweight black metal. Their surfaces had been polished until they gleamed and reflected the light. Set into the back of each pauldron were three long, narrow ribs from some unknown creature, and at the tip of each rib sat a skull that had clearly been shrunk by magic. The bones looked weathered, as though they had been around for many years.

These were all genuine articles! Not the decorative props from before that were only good for looking at, but items that truly amplified magic.

I was working for Asgard and saving your Queen, so what was wrong with asking you to provide a few materials for a new outfit? Under that reasoning, the cloth, gold thread, and metal had all been supplied by Asgard, and all were infused with magic. As for those bones... Sif had practically handed over these treasured trophies to Evenson with tears in her eyes.

None of these bones had belonged to ordinary beings when they were alive. Even now, they still carried magical power. Sif must have gone through quite a bit to claim them back then. But... ever since she had mocked Evenson for using cow bones and revealed the existence of these trophies, he had been coveting them for