The healers moved immediately to the affected area with the coordination of people who had been positioned for exactly this contingency, and Min slipped between them before anyone directed him there, that particular ability he had to be where things were happening before anyone specified that he should be there.
But this time he was genuinely useful.
The damage was small, superficial, and quickly treated.
Ren looked at the work he had done and the small spots of damage he had produced alongside it.
The tissue affected by the transitional mana sparks was what it was: destroyed in the most concrete sense, the combination of mana in unstable transition and organic material producing something that was neither one thing nor the other and functioned as neither.
A darkened, acrid mass that resembled something… not quite corruption, not identical to it, but close enough in the superficial appearance to make the comparison unavoidable.
