No one really understood the latter half of what Shade said. Sivie did not care either; she had already pulled the stopper from the perfume bottle and handed it to Shade. Shade had not expended much spiritual power, but he still took a small sip.
"Where did that Flame Demon come from? Just now, Ellie, Little Liana, and I were playing in the snow over there when the demon suddenly appeared and frightened us all."
Only then did Emilia have time to ask. Sivie shook her head.
"Just now, we encountered cultists from the Misfortune Order. This was their doing. But it was not spatial teleportation. That demon seemed to have originally been beneath this Snow Mountain. Could those cultists have arranged for the demon in advance?"
She had not seen the invisible thread touched by the Moonbeam Greatsword earlier.
"The demon probably was not a method of the Misfortune Order. What normal person would arrange a Flame Demon on a Snow Mountain? Those cultists used the threads of the Prophecy Spinning Wheel, but I have not figured out the principle. It should have brought me misfortune after I touched it. That spinning wheel can not only weave destiny; it seems the threads it spins can also... So the Flame Demon was already here, and it merely attacked suddenly this time."
Shade looked toward the canyon area, whose terrain had been permanently altered after the great battle.
"Although Sivie dealt with two of them, the last one still escaped with the corpse. We do not know what they came here for."
"Then what did you come here to find? The grave you mentioned this morning?"
The Pointy-eared Elf girl asked. Feeling somewhat better, Shade nodded.
"Yes. I suspect they were here for it as well, but the grave was already