There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL)

"What are you talking about?" the heir of House Kamui frowned at the answer that begot more answer. "What do you mean by the power of miasma?"

"It means, Mr. Kamui, whoever built this building used the core of a creature from the Deathzone to kill the sons and daughters of our country," the President said solemnly.

"What?!"

The reaction this time was bigger, simply by mentioning Deathzone. Some even stood up from their seat in shock and anger, including the heir of House Kamui. Zein already knew about all of this, but even he couldn’t hold back a frown. The more senior representatives, however, keep their calm and merely look at the President for more deliberation.

"Surely you’re not saying everything without basis?" Caishen Patriarch, Zhou Caishen, raised a question. "This is not merely a conjecture, right? It’s not that weird to see something containing miasma in a dungeon."

"Of course not, Patriarch. If you will," the staff pointed to the screen again, where new images had been generated. "This is the blueprint of the building that we found in the rubble, and if you’d like to read the other one, it contains the instructions and manual for the maintenance of the ’fuel’," the staff explained, giving a few moments for the representatives to peruse the content briefly. "If you would move forward to page five--yes, there’s a detail about this source of power."

Senan stepped forward and helped Zein operate the screen to flip the digital book--just as the other assistants and bodyguards of the representatives did. Zein knew about this wretched device already, but he hadn’t heard much about the details because Radia had been flying around too much to explain properly.

There, in that section, was a clear chart of the black sphere. There was a detailed manual on how to detect anomalies in the miasma level, how to prevent it from leaking, and so on. Detailed instructions about what to do in case of the core running wild took up two whole pages--including who to call in case of such an emergency.

"We are in the middle of tracking these account numbers that were provided for this emergency," the President added as some eyes looked at him inquisitively.

After giving the representatives more time to peruse the file, the staff continued. "Regarding this sphere, The Trinity guild had provided us with a study about this source of power--a Specter core, as the people in the borderland unit called it," she shifted her gaze toward Zein, leading the other’s attention to him. "Would you confirm it, Sir Ishtera? I believe no one had seen this creature more than you."

Immediately, Zein felt all eyes were on him; skeptical ones, intrigued ones, suspicious ones. Thankfully, he had gotten used to this kind of attention and interest after joining Trinity, so he no longer let out a threatening aura when he was confronted with such gazes. "Yes, unfortunately," he replied calmly with crossed arms, looking to the front, where Torodeo Horin was. "It matches the one I found in the Deathzone, as well as the black gate anomaly. I think we have provided the record of that to the government and association."