The fissure yawns ahead, black and jagged, breathing out ozone and rot. Smoke threads upward from below, and the scorched earth around it still glows faintly.
Tenda Wildheart halts at the brink. The dark shimmer under his forearm answers the smoke with a cold pulse.
Grugna
That is the source. Something down there is leaking tainted ki.
Zero
Good. Then we smash the source and move on.
Daisy
Wait, the air is wrong here. If that corruption spreads through him, it could get worse.
Rex growls low at the裂 seam, fur bristling. The dark smoke curls once, as if sensing Tenda, then spills deeper into the crack.
Grugna
The trail goes straight down. If you go, go with purpose.
The party's attention fixes on the fissure. Whatever waits below is tied to the mark in Tenda's arm, and this is the first step toward ending it.
Contain the corruption at the fissure