There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 478

Chapter 478: Chapter 471. Chipping the Mountain

"Ouch..." Han Shin rubbed the back of his head as they walked together toward the command center. "Hey, I think this is swollen," the healer protested, and when the perpetrator ignored him, he turned to the perpetrator’s boyfriend. "Zeeein!"

"You’re a healer, so heal it yourself," Zein said without care, and Han Shin pouted in disappointment.

"You’re so cold now...even though I worked hard to take care of your kids..."

Bassena scoffed, but Zein chuckled and patted the healer’s head--nothing more. "Then stop spreading stuff to my kids, huh?"

Han Shin grinned and poured his mana to the back of his head, getting rid of the pain a Saint-class magician-warrior-hybrid’s palm caused. He stared at the back of Bassena’s head with narrowed eyes--not for revenge, but to scan the man. He took out a measuring device to make sure, and just as he thought, Bassena was clean. The cleanest of the clean, as if no speck of miasma had ever entered his system.

The black eyes glanced at Zein and observed the guide from head to toe. "How can you be fine after absorbing so much?"

"There’s all kinds of guiding in this world, Shin..." Zein replied with a slight daze in his voice.

Ah...they had been doing it before--sexual guiding. But he only found out last night that there were degrees to it. How deep the guide and the esper dove inside each other heavily influenced the quality of the guiding.

With last night...even though he cleansed Bassena fully, he didn’t feel like he nearly experienced burnout, unlike last year. He woke up feeling fine. They both woke up feeling fine. And he thought he could guide the rest of the espers today.

"Ugh--you must have done it in that place, did you?" Han Shin clicked his tongue when he saw the flicker inside the blue eyes. "Are you trying to relive the experience or something? Or was it because the last one ended badly?"

"For someone who keeps protesting about us, you awfully showed so much interest in my sex life," Bassena glanced back with a raised brow.

"Because I still need spice! Unless you can send me back to my fiancee!" Han Shin groaned and howled at the slightly brighter sky. "Anyway, why are you looking so serious suddenly? I thought today was supposed to be a recovery day?"

"You’ll see," Bassena said simply while opening the command tent’s door.

Inside, there were people he had called for today’s emergency meeting; Kei, Ashur, and Iore. Ron also followed them a minute later after changing his clothes, and afterward, they locked the command center.

All of them, save for Bassena and Zein, had a curious expression. But looking at Bassena’s serious expression, they just waited patiently--not for long, since Bassena also didn’t waste any time. Right after the command tent was locked, he took out a highly secured tube and put it on top of a cleared table.

"Ugh--what the hell is this?" Han Shin winced as he stared at the tube, which was supposed to be clear, but was now filled with murky miasma. In the middle of it was a dark crystal, almost looking like a shard, which was letting out the miasma.

"It looks different from a regular miasma," Kei narrowed her eyes. "It wasn’t just a black smoke; and...there was a different kind of power coming from it..."

"Like the one used by those commander classes to evolve?" Ron muttered.

"Yes, I think so," Han Shin poked the tube after putting on his gloves. He flicked his gaze toward Bassena. "Was this inside that creature you fight? The one leading the troop?"

Bassena nodded and Ron unconsciously rubbed his chest. His body might have disintegrated instantly at that time, but he could still feel the split second of contact--as well as the pain that came with it.

"I haven’t included this in the report because it’s still a conjecture, but after talking with Zein, we came to the same conclusion," Bassena stared at the crystal lying in the middle of the tube. "That creature was the fragment of the Fallen Star."

As the other espers widened their eyes in surprise, Zein put his hand against the clear glass tube. The crystal, which had been lying quietly all this time, suddenly shook and moved around in the tube, pushing on the edge as if trying to run away.

"My nemesis," Zein smirked. If that creature was the fragment of the Fallen Star, then it would be the same kind as him--just in the opposite team. And then, the blue eyes dimmed and the guide’s face turned grim. "Seemed like it might be targetting me."

"You don’t know that."

"No, it kept looking in the direction of the guides," Bassena said. "So there’s a high possibility."

Of course, there was also a possibility that it targeted the guides in general instead of Zein specifically--which might also explain why the wights and the lesser specters kept attacking them from behind, and even showing up through the crack in the middle of the guides.