Under the darkness, with the dotted lights from the countless stars, Ned had to rely on his senses to traverse the darkness surrounding the forest.
He was a day away from the center, and if he could keep up with the pace, blue uniform hunters might be able to subdue the Grade C abnormally evolved hole worm boring and rampaging behind him.
After he killed the Tailor's puppet, the fine bluish thread of Mana slowly vanished. Ned had to leave the field before the Tailor finds out that one of his puppets was already—well—dead.
After he killed the puppet, Ned pulled something off of its chest. It was a circular object, soft, but wrapped in a soft metal to which Ned assumed that it was a Core of a different kind. Ned then unwrapped the hood the puppets were wearing and curious as to what they look like. Nothing. The puppet's face has nothing but a blank face of smooth and glossy ceramics.