After just a few minutes of intense combat, Chloe stood alone amidst the scorched, broken bodies of the [Corrupted Corpses] that had once been her teammates.
Her breathing was ragged, her heart pounding inside her chest. Vines retracted slowly from the corpses, blood still dripping from their thorn-covered edges.
She didn't say a word.
She just stared at their lifeless, twisted forms for a long moment, then closed her eyes and let out a shaky breath. "I need to keep going."
The [Black Sun] unleashing something like that... it had never been reported before. Never.
Not in the logs, not in the forums, not in the awakeners' testimonies, nowhere.
And the fact that all her companions, every last one, had been instantly transformed despite their preparations and defensive skills meant one thing.
Something had gone horribly, terribly wrong in this layer.
Chloe didn't know why she was spared. That same wave of corruption had struck her too.
