Not until they descended upon the Shattered Plane did Negris see anything resembling a hammer: "You say it's like an egg, that I get, but where does it look like a hammer? Where is the hammer?"
Upon landing on the plane, Durken lifted his foot and kicked at the loose soil on the ground, and with a clang, a fist-sized Black Crystal was kicked out.
"Uh?" Everyone was stunned. This was Black Crystal, not just some broken stones. How could he kick out a piece just like that? Could the entire plane be a mine of Black Crystals?
Everyone came to this realization and quickly started digging, soon uncovering a large swath of Black Crystals after clearing away a layer of loose soil.
Negris pried apart some fragments of Black Crystals and couldn't help but frown: "Doesn't it feel like these Black Crystals were smashed by someone? Look, there are radial fractures inside, very much like a whole large Black Crystal was smashed by something and then piled up together."
