Chapter 396: Beauty and the Unknown
On a plateau in Kasluopa, the Fallen World, a powerful magic being leaned against a boulder.
The being resembled an upright brown insect monster three or four meters tall. Its head looked somewhat like a mole cricket's, but instead of compound eyes, it had fleshy eyes with eyelids, and it walked upright.
It had two pairs of arms and two pairs of legs. Although patches of exoskeletal armor were visible on its hands, its joints were extremely flexible, and its fingers were dexterous.
A strange grayish-brown weave covered its body, resembling neither fabric nor woven grass. It was hard to tell whether this was its clothing.
The surroundings lay in darkness. If anything could be called a light source, the beautiful blue and green world overhead was the most conspicuous.
No wind blew. Even on this dry plateau, the omnipresent stench of decay lingered.
As the Insect Person dozed, faint sounds reached it, some from far away and others from the sky.
Soon, tiny dots appeared in its field of vision, rapidly drawing closer.
The dozing Insect Person magic being straightened up, sweeping the magic power flowing through its body across the ground ahead.
Rumble...
The ground trembled gently. Countless clouds of dust and pieces of debris were thrown aside, and boulders slowly rose from the earth.
In less than half a minute, an enormous, clean space had formed around it, furnished with stones of varying sizes that served as crude tables and seats.
Some stones measured only a meter or two across, while others covered dozens of square meters. Their heights ranged from one meter to several dozen.
Clearly, this was a newly prepared meeting place.
A little later, the once-distant figures approached the gathering site.
There were enormous giants covered in withered