The ship's keel is a main load-bearing component at the bottom center of the ship, extending from bow to stern.
Once they discovered the broken keel had issues, it was easy to identify the unusual aspect of the keel—Marcus found that the keel was not one solid piece, but had traces of being pieced together.
Following the seams, they disassembled the keel and split it neatly into two halves.
Inside the separated keel, embedded like in a casting mold, was a bone about a meter long, with one end fractured and the other end being the joint part.
It was covered in dense carvings of magic runes.
"What bone is this?"
"There are magic runes on it, it must be the work of a magician!"
"This is a piece of magic equipment."
"The bone is huge, could it be from a magical beast? Do intermediate magical beasts have bones this big, or could it be from an advanced magical beast?"
Looking at the bone, Goltai and the others chattered away in confusion.
