Something In the air II
Black Rock Chain. Sector 3B, Mining Zone Outskirts
Time: 5:57 PM
The air here always tasted like iron and ash. It was a common consensus that inhaling the dust was an easy way to get yourself sick for the rest of your life. The particles didn't treat the lungs of anyone kindly. Jagged rocks covered in dark mineral veins jutted out of the ground like the spines of some ancient beast, and maybe it was.
Some people liked to speculate that this mountain chain appeared when a powerful beast died and its essence saturated the area, creating the special ore that was the Blossom Citadel's ace. But there was no proof, so it remained a speculation.
Dozens of mining towers loomed across the chain, their metallic frames humming with the faint blue that was Mana as they worked to extract and refine the ore that was the Citadel's most valuable resource. Orbinite.
But today, the hum felt... wrong.
