Hunter led them over to one of these Crystalline Statues, ignoring all of the people working around them. He made sure to keep his distance from it, not moving within arms length of the wretched thing.
In fact, no one worked anywhere near any of them. Invisible rings surrounded the statues, creating an area in which no sane person would dare tread regardless of their race or status.
Whether they were touching the wall, like Hunter had warned them not to do, or were standing randomly throughout the chamber, all of the statues had growths of the same strange crystal spreading out across the caves walls and floor, originating from them.
Or perhaps... It was the opposite.
"This, is the Creeping Crystal. We don't know where it comes from, but we know any contact is fatal..."
Hunter gazed grimly at the twisted statues, the statues that were once living breathing people and which had fallen prey to the substance known as Creeping Crystal.
