Han Yu nodded and accepted the mission completion.
He did not leave.
Instead, he took another mission.
Then another.
And another.
Ten in total.
He moved through the maintenance zone like a machine himself.
An alchemy flow control puppet with misaligned liquid channels.
Fixed.
A transport crawler with uneven wheel torque.
Corrected.
A guard puppet whose sensory array had degraded under blood Qi exposure.
Reinscribed and stabilized.
Some of the tasks were considered mid tier Apprentice assignments. Ones that normally took an hour.
Han Yu finished them in twenty minutes.
Others took him even less.
He worked for three hours straight.
When he finally stopped, a small crowd had gathered at the edge of the maintenance zone.
Puppet artisans.
Some novices.
Some apprentices.
All watching.
"Who is that?" one whispered.
"New face."
"That speed is ridiculous."
"Those repairs were clean… too clean."
