The Goliath was still dissolving when the glow appeared.
A Platinum Chest spawned above the ash pile that had once been a forty-ton behemoth. It hovered in the air, spinning slowly.
Holden grabbed it before the glow could spread, and the chest dissolved into his System Inventory.
[Platinum Chest Acquired!]
[Stored in System Inventory.]
He turned toward the rift.
The column of purple energy rose from a crack in the earth. Something had split the ground open from below, and dark energy poured upward from the opening in a steady, pulsing stream.
The air was wrong here. The Miasma was so thick that Holden could see it, a faint purple haze clinging to the ground and swirling in slow patterns around the rift's base. Every breath was a struggle between his Aether-Steel lungs and the corruption in the air. The Blood-Amber Ring pulsed steadily, sealing the tiny wounds that formed, healed, and formed again with every inhale.
Tss. Tss. Tss.
