He had searched high and low in vain, only to find what he wanted without even trying.
Li Wei had never expected that investigating a missing person case would lead him to a Hellrider from Elturel. Naturally, he asked Reya about what had happened there, and she recounted everything that had taken place.
"At the time, I was training on a hillside north of the Holy City. Then I saw the light of the Companion, which hung above the Holy City and never went out, gradually fade and turn black. The edges of the entire city began crumbling, and it sank deep into the earth just like that. I will never forget what happened. When I hurried back to the Holy City, all I saw was a bottomless pit-"
"Hmm..." After listening to Reya's account, Li Wei thought for a moment.
"Are you certain the entire city sank? Right along its boundaries?"
"Yes. The entire city fell, including its walls."
"That doesn't sound much like a natural disaster..."
As he spoke, Li Wei turned to the elven mage.
"Miss Mage, what do you think? Could some kind of magic have caused this?"
"All I can say is that it's possible."
Even the elven mage could not reach a firm conclusion about something like this.
"But Elturel was protected by several temples. Only an exceptionally powerful being could have done something like that. And then there's the question of where Elturel went. That's certainly worth considering, too."
So far, Li Wei felt his initial guess had been correct. When he investigated Elturel in Silvermoon City, he had suspected something was wrong with the Companion. No other city had vanished, only Elturel, so the first thing to consider was what set that city apart from the others.
Naturally, the thing hanging over