Chapter 338 - 330. The Missing Thread Found Its Way
"Miasma?" Darleon frowned, still clutching his son tight. "But he’s not in a high level of corrosion, how could--"
"No," Zein glanced at Radia, and then at someplace they couldn’t see. "The energy structure is different from accumulated miasma in Esper’s body, but it feels familiar."
Radia raised his brow, following the direction Zein looked at. "The Specter’s core?"
Han Shin gasped, and Bassena frowned deeply. Darleon, however, had removed himself from the frontline so much that he was rather out of touch with what was happening in the Sentinel community. The stuff about Specter, while it was unknown to civilians, had been circulating among espers since Trinity released the black gate anomaly recording--the one in which the squad, including Zein, was getting transported to the Deathzone, allegedly.
So the old man just looked at them in confusion. "W-what is that? What do you mean?"
It would be too long to explain everything right now, so Radia just took the important thing. "It’s a force from the Deathzone," he said, before shifting his gaze toward Zein. "I don’t think you mean a specter core is manifesting there, so I presumed you’re talking about the thing influencing him had something to do with the core or the Deathzone."
Zein nodded and then looked back at Varion. The man was mumbling things like he had to use all espers to attack Trinity and kidnap him over and over again. It was disturbing to hear it up close--no wonder Bassena told him to stay away.
But knowing that the man’s condition had something to do with the Deathzone made everything else seem unimportant right now.
"Zein, do you think it happened because he touched a Specter core?" Radia asked, a deep line formed in his forehead.
"What?!"
The implication of that question was big--bigger than they thought it could be. To the public’s knowledge, there was no Specter core being brought out from the dungeon or the Deathzone. Only a select few knew about the cores in Mortix’s high-security vault, and Radia’s information network told him no one else had one or ever attempted an incursion into the Deathzone.