The Mystery Revealed

"What are you thinking so deeply about?" Back at the hut, Matrim asked while cutting vegetables into the pot to prepare dinner.

Magna had been standing by the window for a while, looking outside as if he were deep in thought.

He was actually watching the fire quite a while now, trying to find the hidden mechanism behind the fire, but unfortunately, nothing about it made sense according to his understanding so far.

If it were Earth, he would think the fire was releasing some kind of gas at night that entered the body through breathing or some other way, or perhaps reduced the oxygen level in the environment and caused them to faint unexpectedly. But clearly, that kind of logic wouldn't work here, so he started thinking about the magical side of it.

Turning to the tall boy, he asked, "You said earlier that you found the fire strange. What was the reason?"