The noise of the city coming back to life slowly broke the silence that followed. People coming out of shelters after the storm.
Healers walking among the hurt. Families crying tears of joy as they got back together. Even though Greg's world felt like it had stopped, it kept going.
They put the hammer in the ground where Hammy had died. After what the slime did to protect it, it felt wrong to use such a powerful object for anything else.
Veldway wanted to say that the weapon should be kept, studied, and used to help rebuild, but when he saw Greg's face, he kept quiet. So they made a small hole in the rubble, put the famous Breaker's Resolve inside, and covered it with stones they found in the wreckage of the Calamity. A grave for a hero who deserved so much more than broken things.
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Three days later, the ceremony took place.
