The storm outside was gradually subsiding. The terrifying hurricane had begun to turn after crashing into The Mountain.
The wind weakened, yet the rainfall became ever more bizarre. It was as though, after the gale powerful enough to lift half the South Sea into the sky had departed, the seawater once suspended in the heavens was falling back to earth and ocean.
Like falling meteors, massive clumps of water crashed onto the ground and rooftops, making even the stone houses tremble faintly.
"This is..."
Inside, Hilliard narrowed his eyes and took off his dry outer coat. He raised a hand, golden Origin Matter radiance lighting up, then casually slapped his palm against the wall.
In an instant, the groaning house stopped shaking. The sounds of wind and rain outside also became much fainter, as though several additional walls lay between them, weakening the noise layer by layer.
"It truly is extraordinary."
Hilliard came to Ian's side. Bending down, he carefully examined the crystallized flesh in the boy's hand and could not help praising it sincerely. "This is the real deal. A fragment of the Origin Matter thymus from a Magic Beast at the peak of the Second Energy Level... Ian, how did you get it? Unless it had suffered an almost fatal injury, it would have been impossible to blast a Magic Beast's thymus out!"
"A thymus?" Hearing his teacher identify the crystallized flesh in his hand, Ian was somewhat surprised. He lowered his head and stared at the bluish-red flesh on the table, clicking his tongue in wonder. "It's way too big!"
The thymus was generally located beneath the thyroid, a fragile, thin piece of tissue. It was one of the earliest-maturing immune organs in most living creatures and was usually not very large. A thymus like the one