Kage strode to Talia and seized the stick from her hand, then sniffed and immediately recoiled.
'This is it!'
The wood was certainly part of the Impure—the smell was too distinct to be wrong.
'What kind of Impure could it be?'
There were different types of elemental impurity, and as of now, only five had been confirmed, though theories suggested more existed.
Root type, Blade type, Shadow type, Mirror type, and Ash type.
Kage himself didn't know much about every single one of these elemental types, but he knew that people who'd survived encounters with Shadow, Mirror, and Ash types recounted stories drenched in horror. And there were precious few such survivors.
Root type Impures were the most common and possessed Impurity akin to the corruption of life itself—nature and growth twisted wrong.
The Rootgnarls, Murkstingers, even Barrowspikes and the Vulture were all Root types. And it seemed the one they were dealing with now was also a Root type.
