Chapter 57: Macabre Red
Everything went quiet for several seconds. The whole nest started trembling. A suffocating feeling rose up, coming from all directions, until the sounds of roars echoed.
It was the Risen in the nest, but those roars weren't full of rage or excitement — they were filled with pain and death.
Darian focused on sensing all the changes around him... and then he was shocked.
The bodies of every Risen in the nest were cracking. It didn't matter how powerful they were — all of them looked like they were being crushed by some unstoppable force. Cracks opened all over them, and through those fractures, all their karma and power were leaking out.
The weaker ones, mostly from the back rows, dropped quickly, already lifeless. The stronger ones were still roaring in agony while their life and strength were slowly torn away.
And the one doing it all... was just one person standing in the front row.
"Ceug! He's using that thing!" Darian said tensely.
After everything they went through to find the traitors and expose them, now everything had flipped upside down in a flash.
There was no way to predict what the enemy would do with the little info they got. Darian had only guessed that the Risen Lords were fighting among themselves, and maybe using the Abyssal Heart's power too early would be a mistake. But in the end, Ceug chose to activate it before the right time.
Vahnu and all the rookies had gone pale. Even though they didn't fully understand what was going on, they could feel death getting closer by the second.
Even from far away, Darian could clearly sense where the Risen's power was flowing. Right in the center of it all, he could feel the Spiritual Guardian using his power to cause this. Activating the emblem would only affect the Summoner and wouldn't kill him — which meant his partner could keep going without a hitch.