"So, all our earlier worries were completely unnecessary?"
After hearing Ash's account of what had happened in the dream, Pablo and Kelly immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Earlier, in order to keep themselves safe, they had thrown away that wooden plaque.
Ash had just been desperately trying to recall the marked locations that had appeared on the plaques so he could redraw them, but his brain simply wasn't up to it. No matter how hard he tried, he could only remember two or three of the points.
Now that they knew nothing was wrong, they finally had no reason to worry.
"Even if that's what it sounds like, I still feel like something's off!" Ash hitched the demon backpack higher on his back and rolled his shoulders.
He couldn't just take this thing off whenever he wanted. Otherwise, the connection would have to be nurtured all over again, and the pain would return just like it had at the beginning.
"Ash, are you saying the locations on those plaques were all sites of Mire Graveyards—already mature graveyards?"
Upon hearing this, the wizard's voice trembled.
Legend had it that the primary material needed to become a Marrow Eater was Marrow Rot, and its source was those mature graveyards.
A piece of news passed down for nearly a thousand years, continuously inherited through the ages and even spread among the evil spirits, was bound to become impossible to keep hidden.
Many people already knew about it.
"Ash, your concern is correct! As a friend of the Progenitor, you should know what graveyards signify, shouldn't you?"
"They mean vast amounts of Marrow Rot are about to appear. Not only does that represent a growth in the power to exorcise evil, it also means a massive feast for the evil spirits."
"No matter