Chapter 90: Ascension and Unlocked Bonds
Yana moved through Ring 4 not like a person on a critical mission, but rather like an entity possessed by a deep, life-disrupting obsession. She was fiercely single-minded. Her movements were singular, cold, and calculated. She followed Devon's frequently updated maps as if they were holy markers, and she discarded weaker Shades of Truth as if they had tried to defile her most important ideals.
And then, she just stopped.
She hadn't found a single high-level Shade of Truth in ten grueling days. Meanwhile, the Starshadow faction had established itself rapidly on Ring 1—information already funneling through the shadow web like water racing downhill along slick river rocks. Worse, intelligence reports showed that the Tapri and Wao factions were actively moving out from Qual, marching directly toward her vulnerable strongholds on Shi and Sho.
