A deep blue beam shot out along the passage formed by insect bodies.
Lu Yuan closed his eyes the moment the beam lit up. It was too bright, carrying a heavy, towering blue radiance, as though all the light on Bronze City's walls had been compressed into a single ray.
Even with his eyes closed, the light still pierced through the gaps in his eyelids, leaving a scorching afterimage behind his eyes.
The instant the beam surged forth, the sound arrived first.
The sound of vines carbonizing was like an exploding wok of oil. Dense crackling raced from one end of the passage to the other, while the evaporating spores gave off a sharp hissing sound.
Then came a dull impact.
The beam struck something.
By the time Lu Yuan opened his eyes, the beam was already fading. Deep blue remnants of light drifted slowly through the passage like exceedingly fine ashes.
The passage had been burned clean.
From one end to the other, every vine, root, and spore had been completely carbonized. Only blackened stone walls remained, along with a straight, clean passage that looked nothing like an underground space.
The beam's endpoint was the altar.
Lu Yuan barely made out several patches of color in the altar's direction. With 27 points of Sanity, his vision had deteriorated until he could only see things within three meters clearly. Beyond that were nothing but blurry outlines and blocks of color.
But the Seeker's perception made up for part of it.
Gray-White Text flickered intermittently at the edge of his vision, translating the distant scene into fragments of information he could understand.
"Nine" was not dead.
That was what the Gray-White Text told him.
[Target detected: Grey Covenant member Nine (Alienated Transcendent) (severely injured)]
The beam had struck Nine,