The next challenger came from the Cryst Heaven, a young Demi-God named Kethris whose crystalline Race possessed an exceptional affinity for Intelligence. His Rune Path focused on compressing Aether into increasingly smaller structures, allowing him to create formations that would ordinarily require far more space and resources than they occupied.
The first challenge was to stabilize an incomplete Rune whose internal energy had grown too concentrated for its supporting Strokes to withstand.
Kethris couldn't have asked for a better puzzle.
He immediately began rearranging the supporting Strokes, compressing the unstable Aether into progressively smaller pockets until the pressure distributed itself evenly. His solution was excellent, and under ordinary circumstances, it would have secured him an easy victory.
Unfortunately, Sylas had been watching.
