Finn nodded, but didn't step forward immediately. Rather, he waited and observed the shifting and twisting mass up ahead.
From all he'd learned from Isis within the short month he spent with her, he knew purging a raw, uncontained chaotic soul mass was totally different from the near-inert soul masses he'd practiced with back at the school. Those had been tethered to special artifacts that could contain the chaotic soul mass without the possibility of it running loose.
But here, out in the real world, chaotic soul masses weren't going to remain still for Ossuarists to purge them.
Even without having a true consciousness, soul masses would always instinctively try to survive. Therefore, they were extremely slippery to get a hold of, and that was without even talking about their insane corrosive nature, which was a whole other trouble on its own.
