After a long walk they arrived, The silence of the sanctuary was heavy, not with peace, but with the pressure of high stakes. The Sassy Sentinel wasted no time on comforting words, her red eyes burning with ruthless efficiency. She had agreed to help, but her aid came with brutal conditions.
"You are a biological and spiritual disaster zone," she snapped, gesturing to Aki's bleeding form, Kael's trembling body, and the inert Child God. "We'll do this all at once. My patience is not infinite, welcomes to The Cloak of the Sanctuary" she show around before turning back towards them.
The first action was immediate and non-negotiable. The Guardian stomped her small foot, and the mossy ground beneath them began to glow with a deep emerald light. It was a tedious, slow process of quarantine. She did not use explosive, exciting magic, but deep, geological power, weaving the very essence of her dimension into a protective shield.
"My land is now deaf, dumb, and blind to the rest of the void," she muttered, sweat beading on her brow. "This will not stop the Architect if he knows exactly where you are, but it will keep his bloodhounds from sniffing out your trail. The cost of this work,…., will be accounted for later. Don't move."
The light intensified, humming, and the air grew thick and heavy. Aki felt a strange sensation, as if the physical world around him had folded in on itself, becoming utterly undetectable. It was a terrifying form of safety, a slow, high-stakes defense that left them totally reliant on their unpredictable captor.
" it'll be a simple Crucible of Purification and perhaps Emotional and Painful" she says quietly at the last part .
Simultaneously, the Guardian turned her attention to Kael. The purification was the most emotionally brutal part of the triage. She used a needle-thin root of elemental energy, glowing with a painful white light, and pressed it against Kael's sternum.
"This will hurt," she stated flatly, without a trace of sympathy. "It's ripping out the spiritual decay. Think of it as soul chemotherapy. And Try not to die; it makes the cleanup tedious."
Kael arched his back, a silent, agonizing scream tearing from his throat as the root pierced his skin. The black corruption he had expelled earlier was just the surface; the real malice was deep within his soul. A low, desperate moan escaped him as the purification began, forcing the spiritual poison to burn its way out.
Aki watched, pinned by helplessness and a crushing wave of guilt. He had survived. Kael was paying the price. Tears welled in Aki's white eyes as he saw the raw, exposed agony on his friend's face. He could do nothing but hold his hands tightly against the ground, his own wounds forgotten in the face of Kael's pain. This was the cost of his failure in Acheron, and it was a deep, searing emotional wound.
While Kael writhed in agony, the Guardian didn't break focus. She pressed her free hand onto Aki's forehead, making contact with the last vestiges of Lyra's power.
"While your pathetic mortal friend fights for his soul, you will empty your mind," she ordered. "Every detail, every whisper, every weakness of the Architect and his palace. If you lie, even inadvertently, I will stop the purification and hand you both over."
This was the thrill. Aki was exhausted, his judgment compromised, and he was being forced to transfer the most critical, devastating cosmic secrets to a terrifying, unknown entity. Reliving the horrors of Acheron, the sight of the Child God's tiny chains, and the magnitude of the Architect's final plan flooded his mind. The information transfer was a dizzying, overwhelming download of terror and strategy. He felt Lyra's memory fighting to organize the data, but his exhaustion meant he might miss a vital piece—a mistake that could doom them all. The power flowing from him felt like the last embers of his life.
The room was filled with the sounds of Kael's tormented moans, the hum of the quarantine field, and the silent, high-stakes transfer of cosmic secrets. They were safe, but they had never been in greater danger. They had given a dangerous stranger the power to save them—or to destroy them all.
Just then Lyra voice sound in her head " no need to steal it from him" she come out of aki body, aki's wings disappeared and his hair goes back to it normal color , his eye once shiny now with a normal human color, too drained too keep the form a moment longer., She just took a small orb and transferred only the fight and sacrifice memory into it .