I wasn't certain whether this hunch of mine was correct. Given how this was supposed to be a dangerously difficult mission, there was a chance that pulling this stone out in the open would suddenly transform this jade beauty into a monstrosity just like in a popular franchise of books, games, and online tv series from the earth.
Thankfully, outside of the girl's eyes widening to the absolute limits of her psychique, nothing of that sort happened. No fangs grew out of her delicate fingers, no blackness took over her majestic-looking, perfectly white wings.
"Is that…" Barely capable of uttering any words with her trembling lips, the girl reached for the sacred core, unknowingly making a pose that was even harder for my sanity to resist. But once her fingers touched the glowing surface of this strange stone, my vision cracked once again.
