Thor had never imagined that in just one year away—not counting the three days he'd come back in between—Keli would have turned Radiation Witchcraft into a means of fighting Black Tide Pollution.
"Black Tide Pollution isn't limited to spreading through contact with a Pollution Source. It seems quite possible that Corruption is a kind of wave, too. But although it has wave-like properties, it isn't entirely a wave. Otherwise, that wouldn't explain its other characteristics."
Thor took two steps, then suddenly turned to ask Keli, "How did you conduct the experiment?"
Keli pressed her lips together, her gaze beginning to wander.
Byron, who had been silent for a long while, gave a light cough. "Ahem. We brought the Bone Strange Fish here from the Chaos Domain."
"I knew it. I told you to experiment on the White Bone Monster in the Chaos Domain, but you still brought it over here."
Keli muttered under her breath, "You know we're serious Wizards. The more you forbid us from doing an experiment, the more we want to do it."
Byron was more serious about it. "We didn't experiment anywhere nearby. We found a patch of the Dead Silent Desert and cleared away the remaining life-forms around it, too. We made sure the Corruption couldn't spread beyond the area."
Thor hadn't meant to blame them.
After all, he'd brought back a monster he'd found in the Chaos Domain to the Wizard World once himself. But when he discovered that the Black Dust on the monster, which had already become inert, showed signs of reawakening in a world rich in Magic Power, he'd taken it back to the Chaos Domain as quickly as he could.
"All right. Since your experiment has been verified, I can't say anything now. We'll go to the Chaos Domain... Actually,