"So from that time onward, Winterfort occasionally began seeing corrupted creatures appear, and we started conducting regular patrols," Carter Binda concluded.
"Didn't that corrupted person have a Magic Stone on them?" Uchiha Madara asked after thinking it over.
"Probably not. We killed that person right away back then, and I didn't sense anything like a Magic Stone," Carter Binda recalled.
"Normally, corrupted people carry Magic Stones. Why didn't that person have one?" Uchiha Madara was somewhat puzzled.
"Why must corrupted people carry Magic Stones? I've seen plenty of corrupted creatures, but I've never seen one with a Magic Stone on it," Carter Binda said with a smile.
"That's true." Belaque said to Uchiha Madara, "Didn't we meet that little boy before? He didn't have a Magic Stone either. Not every corrupted person necessarily carries one."
"It's just more likely," Belaque added.
"Then that must be how it is." Uchiha Madara smiled. "I thought everyone carried one."
As the three continued walking, an odd sound rang out, and a massive creature flew over from the distance.
"Is trouble coming our way?" Uchiha Madara asked, looking at Carter Binda.
"This shouldn't count as trouble." Carter Binda said to Uchiha Madara, "It's actually a very tasty ingredient. It's not trouble at all—at least not for us."
As Carter Binda spoke, a brown creature flew over from afar.
Uchiha Madara looked at it. It had the body of a beetle, with a pair of shelled wings.
Yet its face looked more like an elephant's, complete with a long trunk.
"What is this thing? An elephant that looks like a beetle, or a beetle that looks like an elephant?" Uchiha Madara asked Carter Binda.
"If I'm not mistaken, this big thing should be called an insect elephant, right?" Belaque looked at Carter Binda.
"This creature