"It looks pretty small..."
In fact, the two of them hadn't traveled very far toward the meteor's center on their Broom or Magic Flying Carpet.
The Sorrowful Swamp covered a vast area.
It took about ten hours to cross—an entire day.
Judging by Lan Qingyou's estimate of the caravan's speed, it was at least two or three hundred kilometers across.
So even though the meteor had landed in the middle of the swamp, flying there was no trouble for the two of them.
They covered a hundred kilometers or so and reached the meteor's impact site in less than an hour.
The meteor had left a huge crater.
The fresh soil it had thrown up had dried and hardened in the intense heat.
Only the soil submerged in the swamp water that hadn't evaporated remained wet.
Along the way, they'd seen quite a few dead monsters.
But they were all ordinary creatures.
There was nothing worth catching their attention—especially Alisa's, since she was something of a specialist.
So...
That was why Alisa exclaimed when she saw the meteor at the bottom of the crater.
Don't misunderstand. Mostly, she was just bored.
They'd originally hoped to encounter something along the way, but they hadn't run into anything at all.
None of the three possibilities she'd guessed at had come to pass.
Or, more precisely, they hadn't found a single corpse that could support her theory.
"It's only natural that it's small. I pulled a rock straight down from outer space, and I specifically chose one that wasn't too big or too small. That way, it wouldn't lose its power, but it also wouldn't break my Protective Barrier."
"Actually, finding a meteor of just the right size in a near-Earth orbit isn't easy."
Lan Qingyou shrugged, then flew down into the crater.