Nothing much had happened today, so after returning home that evening, Shade did not have much news to share with the girls at home. The house had been very lively yesterday, but tonight only Luvia was there. After making dinner with Winnie, she complained to Shade about the Witches' behavior last night:
"I thought Galina merely wanted to keep him all to herself. I never expected her to invite everyone else too. Had I known, I would have come over as well."
However, Luvia had no interest in the disgusting Relic Derivative Shade had brought back and did not even inspect it.
Thus, after dinner, Shade set off alone for Mr. Corps' place. Luvia stayed home, asking Winnie about more old stories from the Fifth Epoch. He had left relatively early that night, so by the time he reached the cemetery outside the northern village, with village dogs barking in the background, it was only eight in the evening.
At that moment, March hung slanted in the night sky, and tonight's Red Moon was especially full. According to the popular superstition of this era, such a moon phase was a good time to conceive. In truth, that was not entirely superstition.
The moonlight was beautiful, and since Shade was in no hurry, he slowed his pace slightly and looked up to admire it. Not long afterward, when he met Mr. Corps in the small cemetery, the pale-faced middle-aged man directly handed him the [Active Metal]:
"Check the goods."
Unlike Mr. Munoz's containment method in Arcadia City, Mr. Corps used a thick leg bone from some unknown animal to contain the silvery, mercury-like metal. He had carved runes onto the surface of the bone, activating its undead properties and forcibly suppressing the "Active Metal's" activity with the power of death.
Although