Corven's first attack branch crossed the ridge through three empty sockets, splitting toward the wounded from separate angles.
Hajin sent the Chain through the nearest line, breaking its fitted route before the ash spear reached Aegis. The other two branches turned beneath his weapon, using the circulation bank to remember their targets.
One Ring held the treatment panels above the ground while the remaining halos fed his next pull. His damaged pathways tightened under both demands, slowing the Chain before it reached the second branch.
"You will choose them again," Corven said, advancing behind seven open Shards while the cylinder worked across his back, "Dreth only needs you to keep choosing."
"You are attacking wounded soldiers to prove that," Hajin replied, drawing the links around the second route, "come closer and explain it."
