Two weeks after getting his ring back, Liam found himself standing in the maintenance level where it had been discovered.
The coincidence had bothered him enough that Arik had ordered the area examined twice.
Nothing suspicious had been found.
This level belonged to ether extraction.
Liam adored it on sight.
He stopped just inside the main chamber, temporarily forgetting the engineers waiting to brief him.
Six enormous turbines occupied the length of the underground hall.
They looked nothing like anything used in Wrohan.
Their housings were built from overlapping dark-metal segments rather than a continuous casing, allowing thin bands of gold-white ether to remain visible between them. The rotor assemblies sat vertically within deep extraction wells, with concentric formation rings surrounding each shaft instead of conventional bearings.
Liam stared.
The chief engineer beside him waited.
Narissa waited.
The guards stationed at both entrances waited.
