"The runes were placed here like someone places the ingredients to cook a recipe,"
He said, in an answer to the question Mifa had asked before their argument. "You don't simply pull the bread out of a hat. You have to make it, right?" Mifa nodded. "Well, that's what these runes are, ingredients. They created the shadow creature. That thing wasn't a previously existing entity. One of them somehow got their hands on this particular recipe to create a shadow creature from scratch."
"Alright, so we're looking into how they got hold of this recipe then," Mifa said. "How do we go about it? They all wore hoods; we have no idea who they are."
"They left some of their things. The candles, the chalk, they might come back for it," Tihn replied.
"All right, so what about the creature? Does this recipe have a particular order to it? Any set time before it comes back to base camp? Any particular direction it goes or things it looks for?" The S-rank Reaper asked.