The two of them stepped onto the ground and looked around, then split up and spread toward the two sides of the open space, each carrying a long copper-shelled cylinder in their hands. They fixed them onto mounting brackets; from the look of them, they were spare parts for some kind of inscription machinery.
The third one down was slightly older. His gray clothes had one more ring of silver-thread edging than the first two, and his steps were steady.
When his gaze swept over the boundary line woven from the Sea of Worms in front of the branch, his brows furrowed slightly, and then he turned toward Klaus.
The last one to crawl out of the cabin door was a figure much shorter than the others—Green.
Lu Yuan recognized him at once. He was the Dwarf craftsman from before, a master of Inscription Studies. He had previously been summoned to Bronze City by the copper whistle, and he was the Dwarf who had bought three Ghoul Brain Cores from Lu Yuan with a Dwarf copper coin.
He had personally taken part in the sealing project of the Tower of Erudition. Now that something had happened to the Tower of Erudition, the Dwarves had most likely caught wind of it. It was not surprising for him to appear here.
Green still looked the same as ever. His old leather apron was creased and rumpled, his grizzled beard piled in a messy clump on his chin, and the apron was covered with little tools that jingled and clattered.
When he jumped down from the airship, he nearly failed to keep his footing. He swayed before planting his feet, muttered a few words under his breath, then looked up and around. His gaze paused for an instant when it passed over Lu