Chapter 590: The Missing Road
Leon spent the next day proving that power was not the problem.
He began by reconstructing the missing coordinate structure around the fragment he had recovered. Much of it could be inferred from the surviving sections, but an interworld coordinate did not tolerate approximation. One uncertain segment turned the entire route away from its destination.
His first reconstruction pointed into the dark between worlds and ended there.
He dismantled it and began again.
The second approach reversed the surviving descent path instead of replacing it. The passage had been built to carry travellers in one direction. Its anchors were not merely pointed toward Velaria; every layer of their structure depended upon that direction. When Leon inverted the flow, the old foundations pulled against themselves.
He stopped before the strain destroyed the scar.
