Deep within the forest outside the Roselle estate, a dark shadow crawled out of the ground like a worm. Its body was sinister and infectious; wherever it crawled, whatever it moved through wilted and died.
And whatever died turned just as black as its body, infecting the land outward. However, before the shadowy worm could reach even 3 metres from where it crawled out, it was caught by a humanoid entity many times larger than it.
"Ah, that's where you've been." The Gardener raised his gloved hand and pulverised the True Darkness with overwhelming force, forcefully purifying it out of existence. Just this tiny fragment of corruption that was only 50 centimetres long cost him 10% of his overall mana.
With repeated consumption of the mana potion, he had now been able to fully cleanse the area around the estate that was affected last night.
