"Speaking of that stele... I almost forgot about it."
Looking at the ceremonial patterns of no apparent use, Laine suddenly recalled the broken stele that he had tossed into the depths of his collection long ago.
In Odin's Treasury, he had successively acquired the Draupnir, the divine sword Laevatein, the Rune Scriptures of The Origin Text, a poison and its antidote based on the poison springs of Niflheim, and the grudge of the primordial giant Ymir.
Some of these items had been used, while others had not to this day, but anyway, Laine knew what they were for more or less. The only exception was that broken stele obtained at the same time, which, from the moment he acquired it, he never understood what it was for. Even under his scrutiny, it seemed nothing more than an utterly ordinary object.
