While Lucien waited for Seran to gather the compatible volunteers, he did not remain idle.
He returned to the Stillness Palace and descended directly toward the Abyssal Pool.
The first expansion of the Controlled Abyssal Tempering Framework had already proven useful.
It had also revealed its greatest limitation.
Capacity.
A few hundred people could enter each wave, but Lootwell possessed far more reliable soldiers who could benefit from forming Nihility Bodies.
Allowing the early stages to remain a bottleneck would waste time.
Lucien had no intention of doing that.
So he worked without interruption.
One reservoir became two.
Two became four.
Around them, he began shaping the foundations for additional training regions.
They were not complete frameworks yet.
Each would still require diluted mist channels, isolated chambers, emergency withdrawal formations, and a final connection to an undiluted baptism pool.
But the expansion had begun.
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