Chapter 489 - 482. Emptiness
"Two shards, huh?" Bassena muttered as they traversed through another jungle. "Not in two locations, but two together?"
"Like twins..."
Bassena glanced at Zein, who for once walked with him instead of with the two other two guides--now that Dheera and Leehan got used to the Deathzone, Zein no longer needed to babysit them. He couldn’t see the guide’s lower face, but from how soft that reply was, Bassena could picture the smile beneath the mask.
"I see," it also brought a smile to his face. "At least they are not alone, aren’t they?"
"Mm," Zein chuckled softly, before looking in the direction they had to go to. "But that also means they are easy to be noticed."
"Ah..."
Before starting this whole operation, they had made quite a few theories about the shards and the Fallen Star. One of them was the shard’s location, or rather...how they were hiding. Be it the one hidden inside the tree fortress, or the one in an underground city ruin. Even the one tracked by the other team was located beneath a mountain.
It made them think that over time, the shards manipulate the environment around them to create some kind of a hiding place. But regular miasmic beasts wouldn’t be able to breach the shard’s territory. All they could do was sieging the area while trying to break the invisible barrier.
In that case, who did the shards hide from?
At first, they thought it was from the Specters. But Specters were naturally created from the clash between the shards’ leaking natural mana and the Deathzone’s thick miasma, so it didn’t make sense.
Only after finding out the existence of the Fallen Star did Zein think of something--the shards were hiding from the Fallen Star who shattered them into pieces.