The first massive artifact was anchored directly to the throbbing network of veins near the exit, positioned right alongside a second metallic limb.
Both were already chambering a concentrated beam of corruption, the dark ether pooling in their mechanical palms with a high-pitched, escalating hum.
The final artifact physically barricaded the doorway itself.
Ren pooled his draconic energy to shatter the primary obstruction. Simultaneously, he maintained flawless control over fourteen distinct objects, the crystals and cores, spinning in perfect synchronicity across seven separate runic nodes.
In that exact same microsecond, he calculated the precise trajectory and the absolute minimum electrical output required to 'blink' past the incoming corrupted beams the other limbs were about to unleash.
He orchestrated every single maneuver simultaneously.
