Kael'thos arrived at 10:04 AM.
The Tier 4 three-star prisoner was younger than Vrynn, more aggressive, less experienced with real failure. He came at the wards not with probing but with direct assault, a Tier 4 prisoner using everything he had to break through Gorvax's protection.
The wards held.
But the assault cracked one of the secondary barriers. Not enough to create an opening, but enough to register as vulnerable. Kael'thos saw the crack and pushed harder, pouring everything into that single point.
Owen felt the pressure spike.
He gathered his manifestations and moved them to the point of assault. Not as eight separate entities but as one being expressed across eight locations, all moving in concert. The Unfolding burned through bloodline energy at a catastrophic rate — he could feel the draconic core heating, could feel the danger approaching, could feel the threshold beyond which his body would simply give up trying to hold the form.
