All the candidates who were eligible and wished for an ability were
sent to the strategy room. I’ll just call them [One], [Two],
[Three], and [Four].
Immediately I opened
a gateway to the closest location I have to the found Symbiote.
Immediately the surroundings became dark and the air stuffy. This is
the real difference between Sacrarium and any other safe haven, due
to my gateways I can use Sunlight to clear the Miasma of dark
divinity.
It resembled a blade
of grass but much larger. By intuition, I guess that its an attack
type Symbiote since it resembles a blade of sorts.
While I said there
were two important factors to determine power, I missed one crucial
factor. Some may call it talent, I’d say compatibility. Some people
are more attuned to hold and use divine powers through Symbiosis.
The reason I brought
everyone here is to test compatibility, all four were eligible so
instead of choosing randomly, I’ll decide through who would gain
the most benefit by hosting.
There’s a simple
way of testing compatibility we’ve deduced, all that is needed is a
small amount of blood from each candidate. Then I can pour each next
to the Symbiote and whoever’s blood is absorbed first has the most
compatibility.
As I poor the blood
in four corners around the plant, Sunlight starts to glow form the
spine of the blade. The blood starts to simmer, then boil. It bubbles
up and releases a flash of light which temporarily scares away the
dark divinity around us.
In an instant the
Symbiote launches out of the ground and pierces [Three]’s throat.
His blood starts to splatter until it stops mid air. The droplets of
blood flow back as if in reverse while the hole created by the
Symbiote blade is covered by a crystal green like material.
“We’ve never had
a Symbiote attack to the throat? [Three], try to focus your attention
on your throat”
“mmh… I’ll
try” As he said this a sunlight infused sound wave blasted out of
[Three]’s mouth
To dodge it, I
create a gateway under myself to teleport behind [Three].
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“woah. We’ve
never had a sound based Symbiote” I really am surprised, its just
sound but it visibly pushed the dark divinity in front of it,
although temporarily.
“I’ll assign you
to stay at base, using the sound waves you can do an area-of-effect
defence for Sacrarium”
“...bu”
“ALL OF YOU! The
Symbiote has chosen go back and prepare for the upcoming beast raid.
Saviour, open up a gate to the city walls.” Arm interrupted [Three]
before he could get his objection out.
I raise my hand up,
think of the city walls then from somewhere deep within a Sunlight
divinity rises up. With that divinity and my thoughts, a gateway
appears. Gateways don’t have a definite look or border. Its as if
the two spaces encompass the same area and they merge and shift
formlessly.
After everyone but
me and Arm steps through I close it by shifting my focus off the
‘image’ or anchor. I would go back but I have a feeling Arm
stopped everyone suddenly for a reason, so I turn to him expectantly.
“This is becoming
a problem, just in the last few months two different new Symbiotes
have appeared, 5 previously seen Symbiotes and even a Blessed one”
“yes, I too fear
that what we’ve theorised was true. Because I use gateways in
Sacrarium to bypass the Miasma, more Sunlight can pass through. I
cant keep this Sunlight in Sacrarium though and its been creating
more Symbiotes and more Blessed.”
Blessed beings are
people who have been chosen by Sunlight directly. Like me they have
perfect control over the ability given, without it being restricted
and passed through a Symbiote.
“Yes it creates
more people able to fight against monsters but at the same time it
can attract more and more monsters… There has even been recent
reports of disciples spotted in some hunting spots.”
“Now that is a
problem, disciples are very strong, Even with my gates it takes time
to transport everyone, in that time only a few disciples could
massacre the weak”
“This was
completely fine when we had a few dozen people but Sacrarium has
grown to almost everyone left in the habitable lands, there are
hundreds nearing a thousand. With this amount we cant defend against
disciples with only you and Cubit”
“We are fine. With
Cubit’s ability to increase distance between two targets, we can
gain enough time to evacuate everyone”
“but what if one
of those disciples can bypass Cubit’s ability? What if”
“STOP. This is my
decision, I’m NOT going to leave people in the miasma, hell that
might hurt us. If we abandon others they could turn to disciples
against us”
“okay okay. I’ll
back down, this is why I simultaneously love and hate your
leadership. You wont abandon your people, but sometimes losing things
is necessary”
Shaking off any
doubts, I create a gate to Arm’s encampment and gesture for him to
step through. I said all that but if that sighting was right, I don’t
know if we can defend against another disciple. The last disciple we
fought against was when we have just over a hundred people. Without
another blessed like Cubit, all I could do was run around opening
gates for everyone.
Even then we had to
sacrifice lots, even I was not left unharmed. I’m still left with a
scar from when a Parasite had punctured my chest. Without my abundant
Sunlight from being Blessed the parasite would’ve taken over.
I pull down the neck
of my shirt and look down at the large wooden-like growth on my
chest, hidden within there is a parasite. Its hibernating right now
since I flooded it with Sunlight but if it awakens when my Sunlight
is low it might take over.
However, I have a
plan to deal with this Parasite that has been looming over my
shoulder all these years. I’ve been experimenting with miasma and
found that some divinity and miasma have similar abilities. Perhaps
if I replace the miasma in the parasite with similar power sunlight
it can be converted into a Symbiote.