Chapter Thirteen: Guilty by Association

"Kid, don't look at me with those eyes. For those of us who practice Dark Magic, there is no better place to live and cultivate than one that adjoins the heavenly realm above and connects to the underworld below. If it weren't for some dark creatures lurking within, I'd lie down in there and never come out again," the pointed-nose, monkey-cheeked magician seemed to casually lift the veil hanging between the two, but his nonchalant words struck Komer like a bolt from the blue.