Chapter 574 - 568. The Saint’s Call
The first time it felt that dangerous presence, it tried to run.
It ran to a place with a lot of tall walls, thinking it would serve as protection. Instead, it became a trap. The complicated layout made it hard for it to navigate, and before it could look for a way out, that dangerous presence caught it.
It struggled, repelling the presence it remembered as an enemy. Thankfully, it seemed like they had the opposite cosmic energy, making it easier to resist. It just...didn’t think the enemy would do it consistently for years and years.
Years and years, its defense was wearing thin and it was tired. Oh, it was tired and at one point, it got distracted enough for the enemy to pierce its defense.
And it burns. Oh, it burned for both of them. It screamed and the enemy was furious. It could feel the enemy’s anger for those years of useless attempts. For a while, it felt good, it felt glad. Surely, the enemy would leave it alone after this.
Oh, how wrong. How naive. In the wake of the enemy’s pain, anger, and frustration, multiple swirling portals appeared around them, bearing thicker miasma than the one surrounding them. It was confused at first, but that confusion turned into dread when the enemy roared and cracks appeared on the swirling portals.
And then, they exploded.
The swirling portals broke, and thick miasma poured out. Like a whirlpool, the accumulated miasma sucked even more miasma around. More and more miasma crawled into where it was, shackling it, crawling into it.
It hurt; it was painful and scary. But no matter how loud it screamed, nothing happened. And so it screamed and screamed and cried for years and years, as more and more miasma crawled and eroded its existence.
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"I see...how unfortunate," Tian Yu closed his eyes when Zein finished his story. The shard in the guide’s hand was letting out a soft vibration as if wailing, while the other one’s light had turned even dimmer. "But you said there’s a way to get it back, right?"