They departed for the courtyard almost immediately. Victor carried Ren upon the broad back of his majestic avian beast, with Julius and the three girls behind.
As the wind rushed past them, Ren rapidly outlined his ideas.
"I intend to partially regenerate the structural integrity of the star-prison. The entity trapped inside has been relentlessly clawing at the vault doors for ten consecutive days, and it only needs a few more days to carve a viable escape tunnel. But if I can successfully repair even a fraction of the subterranean damage it has already inflicted upon the bedrock, we reset the countdown. We buy the continent an extra day or two, perhaps even more."
"And you are capable of executing an architectural maneuver of that scale in your current state?" Larissa did not attempt to mask her deep skepticism, her eyes locked onto his crystallized arms.
