Another week passed before Seran contacted Lucien again.
By then, Aurelia had completed her examination of the candidates who had passed the Grace System's compatibility screening.
Lucien opened the report inside the Origin Core Shrine.
The first section contained the full list of compatible candidates.
A second section contained Aurelia's assessment.
Several names had been crossed out from the active list.
Beside each one, she had written the reason.
Lucien read the notes carefully.
The problem was not compatibility.
Every person on the original list could withstand an incarnation thread. Their souls were stable enough, and their resonance with Primordial Slime authority had already passed the required threshold.
Aurelia had rejected them for what gathered around the road before it was even formed.
Some candidates carried dangerous tension around their current lives.
Their fate was too tightly knotted to people, duties, and unfinished consequences within the Big World.
