Opening

Rean carefully approached, once again telling Sister Orb to be ready to pull him in. He got inside the fifty-meter range of attacks, and the gate seemed to come alive again. However, the colored shine of the two cubic images only lasted a fraction of a second before disappearing once again. Obviously, it tried to attack the newcomer, but it didn't have more energy to do so.

Rean then collected the piece of Hyeoumu's shell, looking at it with curiosity. "To think his shell had such a feature... I wonder if it would be the same against other types of attack as well."

Seeing that Rean was fine, Zandolf and Essefy approached as well, obviously looking at the item in Rean's hand. "Just... what is this thing?" Essefy asked.

Yet, Zandolf narrowed his eyes. "This thing... I feel like I have seen something similar in the past..."