Corven's first attack branch crossed the ridge through three empty sockets and split toward the wounded from separate angles.
Hajin sent the Chain through the nearest line and broke its fitted route before the ash spear reached Aegis. Two more branches turned beneath his weapon while the circulation bank remembered their targets.
One Ring held the treatment panels above the ground while the remaining halos fed his next pull. Damaged pathways tightened under both demands and slowed the Chain before it reached the second branch.
"You will choose them again," Corven said as he advanced behind seven open Shards, "Dreth only needs you to keep choosing."
"You are attacking wounded soldiers to prove that," Hajin replied as he drew the links around the second route, "come closer and explain it."
The Chain cut through another ash spear, but the last branch rose beneath the outer treatment panel. Hajin widened Aegis with his left hand and caught its point below two unconscious soldiers.
