You Can Ask The Flowers
The Genesis Bloom, which had provided steady illumination for months, now flickered with the dying gasps of ancient consciousness, its luminous petals blackened at the edges as if touched by invisible flames.
"It's accelerating," Damien said, his voice carrying the hollow exhaustion of someone who had spent the night fighting battles on multiple fronts. Dark circles shadowed his eyes, and his usually perfect posture spoke of supernatural strength pushed to its limits. "The blight isn't just killing the plants anymore. It's consuming their very essence, their accumulated decades of magical energy."