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Not long before Ketal became certain that a being from the Demon Realm had invaded the North, on the other side, Bayern saw another front of that calamity for himself. He came upon a stretch of land that had been corrupted to the root, a plain dyed a flat, sickly green, the air swollen with venom that tried to press into the lungs with every breath.
“Hm…”
He frowned against the sting. The poison here was not the petty miasma that frightened villagers and felled cattle. It was dense enough that even a Transcendent would struggle to endure it for long. Without Myst hardening the body from the skin to the marrow, the taint would seep through the pores and gnaw at bone. Bayern wrapped himself and stepped forward. The venom licked at his boots and tried to climb, only to break like a wave against the strength in his flesh.
The corruption had spread across the ground as far as the eye could follow. From the near stones to the distant scrub, everything wore the same green film. The color blurred distance until the horizon looked smudged and unreal. He listened to the faint hiss riding the wind and felt the prickle in the soles of his feet each time he shifted his weight.
A Poison Demon, he wondered. One of those fiends that befoul all things and turn clean soil foul—had such a creature descended here?
He denied the thought at once, not because the guess was outlandish,...
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