All the candidates who were eligible and wished for an ability were sent to the strategy room. Saviour is a simple person so to save time he simply called them [One], [Two], [Three], and [Four].
Immediately he opened a gateway to the closest location to the found symbiote he could. Immediately the surroundings became dark and the air stuffy. This is the real difference between Sacrarium and any other safe haven, due to Saviour's gateways he can use sunlight to clear the miasma in the air.
The symbiote resembled a blade of grass but much larger. By intuition, Saviour guessed that it was an attack type symbiote purely since it resembles a blade of sorts.
Theres another factor which can determine power some call it talent, some say compatibility. Some people are more attuned to hold and use divine powers through symbiosis.
The reason Saviour brought everyone here is to test compatibility, all four were eligible so instead of choosing randomly, he decided to give to whoever could bring out the most power.
There's a simple way of testing compatibility Sacrarium deduced, a small amount of blood from each candidate is put near the symbiote and whoever's blood is absorbed first has the most compatibility and will then be bonded spiritually by blood, only by physical symbiosis can the abilities be manifested.
As each candidates blood is poured in four corners around the plant, sunlight starts to glow from the spine of the blade. The blood of the chosen candidate starts to simmer, then boil. It bubbled up and released a flash of light which cleared the miasma temporarily.
In an instant the symbiote launched out of the ground and pierces [Three]'s throat. His blood starts to fish out of his throat like a fountain until it stopped in mid air. The droplets of blood flowed back as if in reverse while the hole created by the symbiote testing flesh was covered by a crystal green like material.
"We've never had a Symbiote attack to the throat? [Three], try to focus your attention on your throat" Saviour commented.
"mmh… I'll try" As he said this a sunlight infused sound wave blasted out of [Three]'s mouth
To dodge it, he created a gateway under myself to teleport behind [Three].
"woah. We've never had a sound based Symbiote"
Saviour really was surprised, the soundwave visibly pushed the miasma in front of it, although temporarily.
"I'll assign you to stay to base, using the sound waves you can do an area-of-effect defence for Sacrarium"
"...bu" [Three] started to protest
"ALL OF YOU! The Symbiote has chosen go back and prepare for the upcoming beast raid. Saviour, open up a gate to the city walls." Arm interrupted
[Three] before he could get his objection out.
Saviour then raised his hand up, while also thinking of the city walls. Then from somewhere deep within sunlight rises up. With that divinity and his thoughts, a gateway appears. Gateways don't have a definite look or border. Its as if the two spaces encompass the same area and they merge and shift formlessly.
After everyone but Saviour and Arm steps through, the gateway closes. He had a feeling Arm interrupted everyone suddenly to get Saviour to listen to him somewhere private, here in the wilderness.
"This is becoming a problem, just in the last few months two different new Symbiotes have appeared, 5 previously seen Symbiotes and even a Blessed one"
"yes, I too fear that what we've theorised was true. Because I use gateways in Sacrarium to bypass the Miasma, more Sunlight can pass through. I cant keep this Sunlight in Sacrarium though and its been creating more Symbiotes and more Blessed."
Blessed beings are people who have been chosen by sunlight directly. Like Saviour they have perfect control over the ability given, without it being restricted and passed through a symbiote.
"Yes it creates more people able to fight against monsters but at the same time it can attract more and more monsters… There has even been recent reports of disciples spotted in some hunting spots." Arm shuddered when he said disciples.
"Now that is a problem, disciples are very strong, Even with my gates it takes time to transport everyone, in that time only a few disciples could massacre the weak"
"This was completely fine when we had a few dozen people but Sacrarium has grown to almost everyone left in the habitable lands, there are hundreds nearing a thousand. With this amount we cant defend against disciples with only you and Cubit"
"We are fine. With Cubit's ability to increase distance between two targets, we can gain enough time to evacuate everyone"
"but what if one of those disciples can bypass Cubit's ability? What if" Arm argued with a bravado only he could have against the leader.
"STOP. This is my decision, I'm NOT going to leave people in the miasma, hell that might hurt us. If we abandon others they could turn to disciples against us"
"okay okay. I'll back down, this is why I simultaneously love and hate your leadership. You wont abandon your people, but sometimes losing things is necessary"
Saviour shook off any doubts and created a gate to Arm's encampment and gesturing for him to step through. He said all that but if that sighting was right, he knew he couldn't defend against another disciple.
The last disciple he fought against was when Sacrarium had just over a hundred people.He was overrun and ask he could do was run around opening gates for everyone.
Even then they had to sacrifice lots, even saviour was not left unharmed. He was still left with a scar from when a parasite had punctured his chest.
Without my abundant sunlight from being blessed the parasite would've taken over. He pulled down the neck of his shirt to look down at the large wooden-like growth on his chest, hidden within a parasite. Hibernating right now since it was flooded it with sunlight but if it awakens when his sunlight was low from using his ability it could take over.
However, Saviour had a plan to deal with this parasite that has been looming over his shoulder all these years. He had been experimenting with miasma and found that some divinity and miasma have similar abilities. Perhaps if he could open up a gateway that let in the same type of sunlight as the miasma in the parasite he could replace the miasma and convert it into a symbiote.