Amber Sword

"On the outskirts of the Green Forest Region, in Korodo City, a huge number of Many-Eyed Infants have suddenly been born!"

"The Flame-Burners Association sent explorers to investigate and discovered that the farther south they went, and the closer they got to Green Forest, the higher the probability of Many-Eyed Infants being born."

"In the towns to the south along the border of Green Forest, even adults were giving birth to third and fourth eyes."

"The explorers continued toward the source of the radiation. Many-Eyed Beasts and Many-Eyed Magic Beasts began appearing in the forest, hunting one another and devouring each other's eyeballs."

"Most of the explorers died to the Many-Eyed Magic Beasts, but among the second group of explorers was a First-Ring Warlock. He successfully found the source of the Many-Eyed Syndrome's radiation in a meteorite crater—a slender sword forged entirely from amber—and returned to the Flame-Burners Association with the news."

A sword?

The Amber Sword?

It was separated by an entire forest and lay ownerless, yet its radiation could actually affect an entire city. It had to be at least a Fourth-Ring Wizard Artifact.

Yin Ming paused before asking, "Where is he?"

Robert Kava took a sip of black tea and pulled out a semitransparent amber gemstone. It was covered in a gorgeous web of blood vessels, resembling an eyeball terrified beyond its limits.

He sighed softly. "This is him. He absorbed too much radiation energy, and countless eyeballs grew from his body. In the end, he transformed into a gemstone."

An amber gemstone formed from an altered corpse, carried around like that—and he didn't find it creepy?

He had known the explorers' mortality rate was high, but he had not expected even a First-Ring Warlock to be unable to withstand it. Yet when he had gone adventuring