Bab 578: Getting Closer

"Stefan Netherlore and that monster… they share a connection."

My eyes widened and my brain began calculating the possibilities.

'A monster that is immune to Magic. It appeared and disappeared mysteriously, killing the many Helmsworth Mages and Knights that challenged it…'

Stefan also got Awakened the next day, and the whole incident seemed as though it never happened.

"The Helmsworth family is one of the major powers of the Kingdom. There's no way their security is weak…"

That meant the monster had to be unimaginably powerful. Shouldn't such a beast have left some sort of trace?

"We never got any whiff of it, Jared. It was like… it never even existed, to begin with." Maria muttered.

The more I learned, the more conflicted I became.

'They would have employed anything in their power to solve this mess. It bothers me that they haven't done so yet.

Besides… what is Stefan's connection to all this?'