Over the next half month, Velin led the army across a fifty-kilometer radius around the lake. Every Monster Clan living in the area met the same fate: destruction.
In mid-June of Radiant Calendar 9743, at the riverbank named Pink Lake, Velin and Kyle sat facing each other, discussing the map before them.
"My lord, we have already investigated the situation. I also entered the space connected to the pink spring three times to scout it out. All signs indicate that this should be a newly discovered Interlayer Space."
"So that pink spring is the passage connecting this Interlayer Space to the real world." Velin sounded somewhat surprised. He had never expected that he would one day discover a passage into an Interlayer Space.
"Yes, my lord." Kyle nodded in confirmation. "However, we have currently identified two ways the gray-white creatures appear in this Interlayer Space. Gray-white creatures of Silver Rank and below emerge from underground. As for those of Gold rank, they can fly and may be regarded as coming from the sky."
"Furthermore, there are Floating Islands ten thousand meters up in this Interlayer Space. They travel around along fixed routes, but no traces of living creatures have been found on them."
Having said that, Kyle took out a head-sized Gray Crystal and placed it in the center of the map.
"This isn't the Gray Crystal of a Soul Intent rank gray-white creature, is it?" Velin asked uncertainly.
"It isn't. This is the Gray Crystal of a High-Gold gray-white creature I hunted." Kyle answered with a smile. "As for Soul Intent grade gray-white creatures, I swept through hundreds of thousands of square kilometers and found none."
"In that case, the gray fog surrounding that passage may be the main reason you were unable to find gray-white creatures in this