Ferra unloaded the five severed bands beside the torso of the fallen custodian upon the gravel floor.
The three corrupted reinforcement fittings sat isolated inside separate ceramic containers, their modern conductive channels safely disconnected.
The intact refusal socket rested within a divided porcelain cradle, its empty central void pointing toward the open sky.
Hajin kept the discharged socket wrapped within the coils of the Legendary Chain, maintaining his defensive rings in dormant silence.
His fresh boundary burn throbbed beneath a clean linen dressing, reminding him of the foreign gaze that peered through.
"Rebuilding the uncorrupted assembly might preserve the final trajectory recorded by the ancient architects," Aria advised through their link.
"The original configuration existed centuries before any secondary modifications forced corrupt energy through the frame."
