Damian's expression stayed blank for exactly two seconds. Then he exhaled through his nose in a slow controlled sound, the kind that meant he was organizing information rather than reacting to it.
"You have three questions." He said as he settled back in his chair. "I will answer them in order."
I waited.
"The cleansing requirement." He folded his hands on the desk as he spoke. "When you kill a dungeon creature, the system sometimes generates an item from what remains of that creature's essence, its soul. These items carry residual corruption from whatever the creature was, and they cannot be appraised or used until that corruption is removed."
He paused briefly. "The process is called cleansing. It requires either a person with a specific ability to purify corruption, or a consecrated location."
I thought about the armor sitting in my inventory, untouched since the sixth outpost. "So these items should be very strong." I said.
