As Ging leafed through the papers, he continued:
"You know that the New World Chronicle: Eastern Chapter East left us is a fragment. Many chapters are missing, blurred, or damaged..."
"The Ancient Labyrinth and Gray White Wilderness chapters are relatively complete. The rest are the ones that really don't line up."
"That's our regret, and humanity's regret."
Everyone knew Ging was right.
For example, in the Five Great Disasters, much of the information about the Mist-like Creature, the Hell Chime Twin-tailed Snake, and the Man-Raising Beast was missing.
Even when V5 later sent a special force in, they had almost nothing useful to show for it. Several entries in their dangerous-creature assessments were nothing but big question marks.
That was because simply surviving there was a problem, let alone finding the time and energy to investigate these "disasters."
Perhaps some of them had tried, but on the way back, those members had either died, lost their research materials, or both. There was nothing anyone could do about it.
Ging paused and solemnly handed the stack of papers to Gelman.
"So, the East Chapter Fragment must contain a lot of information that was originally recorded, but vanished over the past two or three hundred years."
"East's friendship with the Moose Centaur Race is one example... There may be more, considering how many demi-human races there are on the Dark Continent."
Ging's reasoning made sense. On their several journeys to the Dark Continent, Gelman and the others had seen plenty of demi-humans, though they had rarely interacted with them.
East had spent two or three hundred years on the Dark Continent, so it was reasonable to assume that he had come into contact with many demi-human races.
Gelman took the papers. After just one glance, he furrowed his brow and asked, "Do