Chapter 482 - 475. Clean Up
"Dungeon, huh..."
In the first place, Deathzone was created from dungeons that didn’t get cleared because, well...no one could. No tower was created, and so no esper was born in this region. With no one to kill the beasts and clear new sprouting dungeons, the miasma got thicker and became a perfect home for the creatures coming out of the dungeons.
Of course, with how thick the miasma was, even if humans used a detection machine, they wouldn’t be able to sense any dungeon, since the miasma coming out of the new dungeon would be masked by the Deathzone’s miasma. But that didn’t mean there wouldn’t be any dungeon.
"It’s where all those beasts spawned from, isn’t it?" Bassena shrugged. "That’s why they seemed to be endless."
But who knows? Perhaps if they slew more beasts than they could spawn from the dungeons, the Deathzone would be cleared of beasts one day. All they had to deal with was the wights and lesser specters then, who were created by the Deathzone natural evolution itself, before Zein united the shards into a complete fragment to get rid of the rest of the miasma.
The problem was...
"Based on what the Horins had been doing...it seems like the Fallen Star can generate dungeon, isn’t that so?" Zein narrowed his eyes. "Do you think It is staying in one It created itself?"
Bassena nodded. "You know...I had been thinking that the reason why the Fallen Star regenerates so slowly is that It is also a creature of mana. I mean...the Fallen Star used to be a Celestial Being, right? It used the same source of energy with the other Celestial Being, not miasma."
Senan blinked and spoke eagerly. "You mean...the miasma is also pressuring It?"
"Well, it explains why It stays in a dungeon," Zein rubbed his lips. "Perhaps until the mana exhausted, and then It hopped into another dungeon, and..." something suddenly popped into his mind. "That’s why It created the fragments even though it would weaken It further--because It needs a proxy in the Deathzone to manage the unruly beasts."
"Yeah," Bassena, the one with the responsibility to face this former Celestial Being, exhaled slowly as he threw his head back against his seat. Seemed like this entity became trickier and trickier to deal with. "Well...we’ll have to deal with that one either way."