The Goddess Vessel
But the heart of the infection remained.
Through the swirling light and chaos, I saw him. The cult leader. He had broken free from his captors in the initial void-walker surge and now stood near the cleansed altar stone, not fighting, but performing a frantic, desperate ritual. His broken arm hung useless, but his good hand slashed intricate, bloody symbols in the air with a shard of obsidian. He was chanting, his voice a guttural rasp that cut through the din of battle, trying to open his gateway, to unleash whatever final horror he had promised.
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