Ties

"Well, since my earliest memory, I have been stuck in that place. I can't get more than a kilometer from the center of the cemetery, so over the years seeing several individuals come here for the eternal rest, so I decided to become a guardian of their sleep. " The wisp spoke. His mechanical voice had a melancholy tone this time.

"I have tried to free myself several times and asked for the help of several who came here to die. However they come here during their last breaths and do not have much time to help me. So I decided to accept my destiny and just be the guardian of these fallen souls."

Nicola finally understood what was going on and then sat down on the floor to talk to the wisp more calmly. He sent a message into the spatial artifact reassuring the brothers and telling them to stay there.

After a long time talking about the world outside, the sphere of flame seemed to be touched, its shape changed a lot as he became excited and the color of his ethereal body changed in green, yellow and orange tones of excitement.

Nicola realized that the wisp was very intelligent and the mechanical voice he gave was only due to the lack of practice and the few dialogues he had with the dying. With the hours they spent together the voice became more fluid and normal.

Nicola then understood that there was something that held only Tuatha here, he tried to leave the place and was not stopped, but as soon as Tuatha reached a distance limit, something like a chain held him in place, preventing him from moving any further distant.

That thig was, apparently, in the same place that he wanted to reach early.

"Maybe I can help you, Tuatha, would you let me approach the center?" Nicola asked. The sphere floated without making a sound, it seemed to be pondering the matter.

"It's not like I have anything to lose, is it?" Nicola could have sworn that if the wisp had a body he would have shrugged at that moment. Then they approached the center of the place, where strangely, there was no body on the floor, only the black soil it covered. The hair on Nicola's tails stood on end when he felt the amount of black mana in that place, he could feel an extraordinary pressure caused by the excess energy that pushed him down.

Despite all this pressure Nicola was able to stand upright with a little difficulty, the excess energy was being directed to his elementary nucleus and the nuclei of sins around them, even though I reached level 33 recently he was halfway to get to the next level again.

Especially his sins energies benefited from this situation, they seemed to become more pure and powerful, a few more days of cultivation in that place and he would be able to break another level. The two were there, facing the center of the cave looking at the ground, underneath that black earth there was something that was responsible for the energy of darkness and trapped Tuatha here.

This point was one of the spots that he was unable to cross with his ethereal body, even though he tried several times he was unable to enter the soil, Nicola then used his tails and manipulation of the earth element to dig a hole in the ground, the soil densely packed and impregnated with dark mana, prevented the excavation from going fast.

It took a few hours for them to find something and even more hours to dig around the thing and leave it completely exposed. What they discovered left Nicola astonished by staring at the object. Seeing his silence, the wisp cannot help but asking. "What is this?"