Although not every day was the same, the Underworld Research and Extermination Club and the rest of the second-year students of the Academy had settled into a flexible routine of studying during the day and killing every monster affected by underworld energy during the afternoons and evenings.
Some of the club members occasionally visited the city and checked for missing people or traces of underworlders. But it was still silent as the grave, even after several weeks. There were no traces, and it seemed like people had stopped disappearing.
It was almost even more ominous than when people disappeared multiple times every day. But there was nothing they could do about it other than keep their eyes open and ears tuned.
That was why they focused more and more on the forest. Overall, they weren't making much more progress there, either. They killed monsters and cut down sprouting trees and plants that carried underworld energy from birth.
