The transition corridor took six seconds.
Not eight. Six. He noted it without slowing down. Zone fifteen's ambient density had climbed again overnight and the substrate was processing the higher density faster than before, not slower—the inverse of what happened to normal hunters. The Dragon-line pool at full capacity, paired with the War Body's deeper channel structure, adapted to denser environments as efficiently as it adapted to anything. The substrate had been running at near-A-zone density for two days. It had started treating that density as a normal working condition.
Dragon Mode opened into the north section and the world became something different.
