"Even if you kill us… You will never escape this pagoda!!"
Those were the Winter Lord's final words before the twilight vines swallowed her entirely, their verdant tendrils tightening, piercing, and finally devouring her fading soul essence without mercy.
And she was right.
Even after the chains binding his physical body had shattered… even after breaking through to the third layer of his second cosmos… Emery still could not damage the true prison around him. The inner walls of the pagoda remained untouched, its ancient formations humming with cold, indifferent authority. His strongest strikes only caused shallow ripples across the surface of the seals before being absorbed and redirected back into the structure.
Brute force was not enough.
