Have you seen Sand Rats roaming around outside Magatia? There weren't that many in the beginning, but their numbers have swelled these days... and they have gotten much more violent than before. It's not just Sand Rat, either. It includes Dark Sand Dwarf and Scorpion, too. There just weren't that many of them before.

As the researches conducted by Alcadno have really picked up, their numbers have increased as well. I don't know the exact reason behind it... but I do know that Alcadno's ways have definitely affected the environment around Magatia. The one that really exasperated the whole thing is the incident that occurred with an alchemist from Alcadno.

The very nature of the studies conducted by Alcadno breaks the fundamental rules of nature. Have you seen the roids that they've made? Life is precious as it is. Anything that's mechanical is fake. The problem is, Alcadno is slowly blurring the boundaries of life. I can't just sit and watch them destroy the nature's course!

Ahh!! But what we need to take care of right this minute is Sand Rat! They keep munching off the bottom of the half-completed Flying Ships. This is terrible, we won't be able to complete the construction if this vicious cycle keeps repeating itself. I want you to go there and kill off those Sand Rats.

Really? You'll do it? Great! Sand Rats can be found en masse at the outer skirts of Magatia, so I want you to destroy 150 of them for now. Thanks in advance!

If you don't want to do it, then that stinks, but... hey, are you an Alcadno? I can't stand Alcadnos! Get away from me!

You managed to eliminate all the Sand Rats. I believe the reason why Sand Rats, more than anything else, caused so much trouble was because the Alcadnos experimented with Sand Rats. The Life Alchemy? It sounds good, in theory only.

But, it's not something humans can control with their bare hands. It's not something they should be able to control, period. A proposed union between a machine and a living being? A cold piece of metal emerging with a human body? That means the destruction of mankind! It's just that the Alcadno Sect seems to ignore such a thing.

Anyway, thanks to your work, Sand Rats should stay quiet for a foreseeable future. Thank you.