Chapter 576 - 570. A Silent Battle
"Now!"
The moment Zein gave the order, the B-class guides who had been staring keenly at the miasma storm to look for an opening rushed in, using the path illuminated by the shards. There was no time for hesitation, and they immediately put their hand on the visible black shard.
"Ugh--" Brisk gritted his teeth as the triggered miasma storm assaulted them. Thankfully, the Saint’s staff struck the ground, and a field of sanctuary formed to swallow the miasma storm.
"Focus," the firm but melodious voice rang out, and the guides clenched their jaw, pressing their palm against the black shard’s surface.
But focusing wasn’t an easy thing to do. even without the miasma disturbance, the storm happening inside the shard itself was something that could only be described as disastrous. Zein had told them it would feel like guiding an esper on the verge of eruption, but this was...
Perhaps the Captain forgot to tell them that the esper was at least a Saint class because this was just...
They might just as well try to guide the world.
It was like being thrown inside the world of darkness. But it wasn’t just the calm, silent darkness Zein usually experienced blissfully inside Bassena’s core. The darkness of the black shard was tumultuous, like the bottom of the raging sea. The guides felt like they were thrown around in the middle of a hurricane, and nausea was only the simplest thing they felt.
Zein, who was also guiding from the start, took a deep breath as he tried to control the tempest inside the black shard. If he did not calm the raging corrosion, it would be too much for the other guides.
He recalled Bassena’s condition the first time they met, inside that cave. A wounded beast fresh out of betrayal, Bassena’s soul was also a raging sea at that time. The scale was a bit different, but the shard was ultimately a part of Setnath’s soul, which made it sentient.
And all sentient beings had a core.