Days passed.
By Lucien's estimates, the Covenant of Pathless Sovereignty would require roughly ten more days of charging before he could make a clean leap to the West Continent.
Lucien had not been idle during these days.
At last, he took the time to deal with Kharzun.
Lucien entered the Gargoyle Dungeon inside his divine energy core, where the chained ancient beast lay.
He studied the creature's body the same way Seraphine studied a patient.
Kharzun was supposed to have an Origin Core Fragment. Or else, how could he leave the Black Mass?
And yet, inside Kharzun, he felt nothing. No storage ring. No hidden pocket. No familiar "weight" of a fragment.
Lucien narrowed his eyes.
"Either you never had it," Lucien murmured, "or you buried it so deeply you buried the act of burial too."
Kharzun's gaze sharpened, furious.
He tried to force his aura outward.
The Stillness chains did not allow even that.
Lucien's gaze cooled.
He activated Structural Insight.
