The severed boundary corridor dissolved into wisps of grey mist, leaving the southern municipal perimeter submerged in eerie, suffocating silence.
Though the physical gate collapsed, a hair-thin crimson filament remained suspended in the air, vibrating with quiet, venomous intent.
It stretched from the shattered flagstones straight up into the clouds, linking the surface realm directly to the subterranean court.
Hajin stood beneath the glowing thread, his five bronze rings revolving with guarded, defensive momentum around his core.
In his field of vision, the system interface flickered with strange, glitching runes as Aria attempted to parse the five entities glimpsed below.
[ System Analysis: Cross-Realm Measurement Failed ]
[ Threat Classification: Invalid / Shard Count: Unavailable ]
[ Entity Scale: Non-Euclidean Soul Architecture Detected ]
[ Warning: Universal Metrics Cannot Compute True-Body Parameters ]
