Identity, Setting, and Fear

Clack~ clack~ clack

An object resembling a walnut rolled between his palms, colliding to produce a series of discordant noises.

Faint movements of muscles and blood vessels could be seen beneath the surface of his arm, which was covered in burn marks,

In an inconspicuous, dilapidated cottage in the Moon Viewing Area of the Outer Ring, the Mysterious Figure, his entire body radiating scorching Corpse Qi, seemed to be conducting some kind of divination.

But when his divination attempted to reach the Yin-Head in the sky, it was bounced back by a force of repulsion.

Beneath the hood, his face was covered in burn marks. The marks were connected by "nodes," and those nodes were none other than eyeballs—eyeballs scorched by a curse.

The Mysterious Figure who had traveled thousands of miles from Lamp City after hearing rumors about the moon was Little Grape. Gryph.

After leaving William's body, he had embarked on a journey to seek fire,

successively obtaining four pieces of Evil Sun Kindling from Great Lava at the lowest point of the Scorched Plain,

Duke's Guild,

Eternal Curse Plateau,

and Lamp City, which he had visited only recently. Along the way, he had also awakened all the corpses and broken through the special pathway.

Perhaps because of the remnants of the Evil Sun's consciousness within the kindling, Gryph's Self-Awareness had been affected. He no longer regarded William as his "host" and instead preferred his current independent body.

He had come this time out of curiosity about the moon as well.

After all, in the former Old World, although the Evil Sun had overwhelmed the Silver Moon, the two had shared certain similarities. Unfortunately, what he was seeing before him was not the moon, but something else.

Little Grape could tell at a glance that the Yin-Head's hair