As Miss Danist spoke, she manipulated the documents, making them circle around Shade:
"The first confirmed case of 'Light Spontaneous Combustion/Light Melting' in this epoch occurred in 403 of the Sixth Epoch Common Calendar. After that, one would appear every hundred years or so. In modern times, after the record from 1513, the frequency of these unexplained incidents suddenly increased, but only one or two people died every few decades. Compared to the other threats facing the Material World, this was actually extremely low-risk."
Though her words were cruel, they were true. After all, even the sacrifices caused by ordinary people's technological progress were not so few. This strange phenomenon of "Light Spontaneous Combustion/Light Melting" only harmed a single unlucky individual, and it was neither contagious nor transmissible. Even if it were an event-type relic, it would probably only be classified as Poet Level or Document Level.
"Since entering the nineteenth century of our current Sixth Epoch, the frequency of similar incidents has grown even higher. Especially in recent decades, one or two confirmed cases of 'Light Spontaneous Combustion/Light Melting' have appeared nearly every month. That is why The Church only began specially cataloguing this series of cases in recent years. Based on your description, the methods used by the Seekers of Light Research Society are very similar to such incidents."
The final photographs in the file documented the remaining limbs of victims of "Light Spontaneous Combustion/Light Melting." But because "Light Melting" happened so quickly, even when Ring Arcanists were nearby and dragged the victim out of the "light" by their limbs outside it, all they could ultimately save were severed limbs with perfectly smooth cross-sections.
After only a few glances, Shade formed a guess:
"Perhaps Light Spontaneous Combustion/Light Melting is a disaster produced by the world itself, much like