The First Prince gathered the power expelled from the child's prison before the evidence crews reached the broken lattice.
Black-red current flowed through the stolen foundation key and entered the weak royal trace beneath his skin.
White-gold Dominion lines descended from the ancient node, offering structure where the Prince's blood could not sustain the pressure alone.
Every person inside the chamber heard the voice that answered through the key.
"Accept ordered incarnation, and receive the rank denied by defective inheritance," the Dominion God offered, filling the chamber with layered sound.
The Prince stood behind the lowered gallery glass while demonic power twisted around both wrists.
A crown-shaped aperture opened above his head, and the expelled current pulled at his body as though the broken lattice still owned the years it had stored.
Ferra's gauges showed the black-red pressure came from the extraction lattice rather than the child's core.
