Actually—
Lucien had printed the array beneath the battlefield using Imprint Manifestation.
He had done it before entering Abyss Mode.
But against beings like these, it would be noticed easily.
So Lucien had done something worse.
He had invoked the authority of his title.
The Unwritten One.
Once per cycle, he could command the law of the world to Forget a single event.
And he had used it here.
He had made the world forget that he had laid down the modified Execution Circle.
The battlefield itself had forgotten it.
The ground still held the pattern. The hidden channels still existed. The future fuel still had somewhere to go.
But every line of causality tied to the circle had been made unwritten. That meant anything connected to it became harder to foresee, harder to notice, and harder to conclude correctly.
Even Convergence had not seen it.
