Tears of the Firmament kept the wind and rain from touching Linsey's body.
But standing atop this mountain beneath the unceasing drizzle, he felt a chill in his body far colder than the rain falling around him.
Ten years.
His hometown had been razed to the ground.
Everything familiar, both people and things, had vanished without a trace. Even the vast stretches of Farmland had turned into weeds.
"No, how is that possible?"
"Even if the crops had truly been abandoned, the super crops I cultivated would have spread and thrived here. They shouldn't have become weeds covering the ground."
"Unless someone wanted to conceal every trace of this place, so they deliberately made these arrangements."
Under the gloomy sky, Linsey's expression changed.
He took a deep breath to steady his emotions.
"Hoo..."
"Calm down. The more it's like this, the more I need to analyze things calmly."
"An ordinary village would never be worth such a massive operation. The root of it all still lies with Alvitte and the royal artifact in her possession."
"Awoo—"
At that moment, the cry of a magical beast came from the mountains below Linsey, threatening the strange human floating in the sky.
Without even looking back, Linsey casually hurled a furious attack.
Rumble—
Amid the roar of thunder, a spear shot forth at breakneck speed.
The magical beast hiding in the mountains was pierced by the spear. Its force did not stop there, dragging the beast's corpse across the northern side of the hills and carving out a massive trench, leaving the howling beast without even bones remaining.
"..."
Linsey said nothing and did not look back. He simply used his flight ability to descend toward the plain below.
"This is far too strange."
"Anville Village wasn't the only village on Bromegrass Plain