Half an hour later, Riezel put away both the Beast Hide Scroll and the necklace.
"I still can't figure out what they are..."
This result did not surprise Riezel.
He had studied the Beast Hide Scroll and Meloy God before, yet the result had been the same. He could not uncover anything.
"It seems the answer can only be found in the Hidden World."
Or perhaps it could not be found at all.
After all, the Sacred Swords had been forged who knew how many tens of thousands of years ago. Meloy God's history could be traced back to the Ancient Magic Civilization eleven thousand years ago, and the Beast Hide Scroll was much the same. Their histories had all faded into the distant past. Even if they had truly been connected or shared some secret back then, it might no longer be possible to trace it now.
Let alone things from over ten thousand years ago—even things from merely a few centuries ago could have their secrets forever buried in darkness by the passage of time, never to see the light again.
The strange iron that served as the Sacred Sword's core material, the emerald on Meloy God, the beast hide made into a map... Even if these three things had some connection or secret between them, that had happened far too long ago. Even the Hidden World might not have any records concerning it.
After all, the Reinayl Clan, the core of the Ancient Magic Civilization, had nearly vanished into the river of history, leaving behind only a descendant who did not know where her parents were and knew nothing about anything.
It went without saying that Liz could not possibly know these secrets.
"Eulalie might know something, though, if she could recover her memories from before she