I rose higher into the sky until I reached the perfect center above the asteroid. The whole base lay beneath me: tower, teleportation gates, abominations, and drifting deathmist clouds.
Then I activated my Right to Insight. The world shifted instantly. My perception stretched outward, then downward, then deep into the layers beneath the surface. Everything sharpened, gaining a strange clarity as if the veil between reality and its blueprint had been peeled back.
That was when I saw it. The true source of the deathmist.
The asteroid wasn't producing it on its own. It was pulling Essence from outside, thin streams of pure green energy drifting in from the void, sucked into the rock like water pulled through soil. The Essence flowed straight into the tower and from the tower, the same energy came back out… but changed.
