The first upper ward pin cleared its stone channel before Hajin reached the gallery stair. Three more followed across the archive supports while four releases answered from the undercroft below.
Dust fell through the preservation lamps while the western load wall became a circuit in motion. Every flame stayed lit and leaned toward the same descending pressure.
Divine Eye joined all eight empty channels through one white-gold load circuit. The palace had distributed the archive's weight across physical lintels plus ancient ward pins, so either system could compensate when the other weakened.
Every surviving survey shell held one extracted pin inside its survey rod. They moved back toward eight statue niches arranged along the western load wall and carried the stolen supports into one connected line.
