Chapter 284: Threshold
Anchor eight completed the next morning.
Kai had scouted the site the way he'd noted the night before — Dragon Predator Mode scanning the surrounding nodes before he descended. No guardian. The 5-node cluster he had defeated was still folded into the organized rock on the far side of the gorge, its architecture compressed, not moving. He reached the anchor point, ran the integration, and seated anchor eight in twenty-three minutes.
Pool cost nine percent.
That had been the pattern since then.
