Chapter 496 - 489. The Twin Shards
Nestled in a small chamber at the edge of the black desert, two crystals of light vibrated heavily, running around in circles like a pair of panicking children.
The source of that panic was the shadowy creature with a wide grin and an echoing giggling sound swinging its hands against a barrier protecting the crystals. Every time those hands, which looked like spiked tentacles, struck the barrier, the outer layer of the barrier shattered like broken glass. The crystals would take turns fixing the broken barrier and add another layer, but after doing it for a whole day, they were getting exhausted.
Normally, they wouldn’t be bothered by any beasts that might come close to their barrier. Those creatures made of miasma couldn’t breach their barrier anyway. But that one--that one big shadowy creature...
That one was scary. That one felt like them but also not. It could strike their barrier; only weakly at first, but with more power added, it started to crack the barrier until finally, it managed to shatter it. If they were alone, the barrier would probably be breached soon.
But they could feel their kin nearby, so they had been screaming for help.
"Fuck--this one’s bigger," a voice came from the other side of the bigger chamber; the shards flinched and the shadowy figure stopped its assault temporarily to turn around.
From the path where these creatures came from, two figures emerged, who were wholly different from the crystals or the beasts, or the scary shadows creature.
Or probably, not? The crystals--the shards--vibrated heavily and screamed even harder, calling out for their kin that finally came to their rescue.
"We’re on time, right?" Bassena said wryly as Zein jumped off his back. The Fragment, which was almost two times bigger than the last one, hissed and stared at Zein.