Three days passed.
That was all it took.
Three days for the first stage of the public Intercontinental Teleportation Array network to be physically completed.
Three days for the private instant teleportation network to be upgraded.
Three days for Lucien and Lilith to realize something unsettling.
They were getting faster.
Every time they created an array, the rhythm became easier.
Living Creation remembered the previous foundation.
Genesis Forging refined the next one before the first carving was complete.
Leyline data shortened calculations.
The map reduced errors.
The merged Origin Core helped align continental routes.
The arrays were not identical, but the process learned.
By the third day, what had taken half an hour at the beginning took far less.
Lucien stood beside Lilith before the final completed foundation and looked at the glowing rings.
Neither of them spoke immediately.
Then Lilith said, "We finished early."
Lucien looked at the array.
"Yes."
