The pressure above Hajin's barrier doubled before the damaged circle finished splitting apart.
Aegis bent toward the chamber floor and carried the force around Bren's opening instead of into Hans's rescue wedge.
Three Rings turned around Hajin's right forearm while the Chain held the creature's severed pieces away from every rune.
The torn band vibrated against its links as if the mountain recognized its own missing half.
'So the array wants its piece back,' Hajin thought, pressing the band lower. 'I am standing between it and the shelf.'
Juna planted one claw beside his barrier and kept her single Wing clear of the ceiling route.
The white-gold crack passed beneath her palm without releasing heat, then continued toward the dark section at the chamber's center.
"That line is moving away from us," she said while she traced its path across the floor. "The pressure keeps coming here anyway."
