Throw it away? Solam had tried. He had even opened a spatial rift and tossed the thing into the endless void. Yet somehow, it returned to his hand without a sound.
Destroy it? Heh. Solam had tried every method he could think of, but the thing had not even lost a single hair.
In the end, Solam was truly out of options. He simply had someone make a lead box and placed the thing inside. Lead was a peculiar metal, highly inert and almost completely devoid of magical conductivity. It was the best material for concealing magical items, its only drawback being its lack of hardness.
Sure enough, once the fragment was placed inside the lead box, the whispers vanished. To be safe, Solam added four more sealing boxes made of other materials around it, ensuring that no one would discover it.
And that thing behaved itself, remaining completely still as long as Solam did not try to throw it away.
Though he had received a hot potato, life had to go on. At the very least, Solam first needed to replenish the troops he had lost.
After raiding Kostchtchie's treasury, Solam finally had money again. More interestingly, after Solam returned to Doomsday Fortress, Eluvia arrived at the Sixth Pyre as an envoy and left Solam with a massive amount of souls! It was enough to turn Solam from a beggar into a wealthy man overnight.
At the time, Solam's body had yet to recover, and with the matter of Demogorgon weighing on him, he did not meet Eluvia at all. He merely used his severe injuries as an excuse to reject her request for an audience. Yet unexpectedly, the arrogant Radiant Sisters did not make trouble for Solam's subordinates this time. Instead, they left behind a great number of