Every rank thread reversed toward the exposed incarnation core before Hajin could begin Divine Sever. White-gold numbers vanished above the room, feeding their stored measurements into the northern procession armor.
The Witness Avatar abandoned its raised hand plus all remaining pretense of judgment. Its crowned helm split along the Chain-forced seam while condensed light flooded the nullstone floor beneath everyone.
[ Witness protocol changed ]
[ Measurement objective: abandoned ]
[ Final action: detonate recorded archive / rupture accepted rank cores ]
[ Hostage or mortal soul within avatar: none ]
One discharge route drove downward through the coronation storage toward every preservation ward below. Another divided into three command threads aimed at Didi’s pinned Shards beneath her royal claimant mark.
The archive route reached Gazel’s prayer case, the First Prince’s withdrawal ledger, plus every western index shelf through their registered seals. Detonation would turn the same preservation network into ignition across the surviving records.
Didi pressed her sword against the three threads entering her rank label while their script remained visible. The unstable silver-gold current did not return anywhere along her blade or pressured pathways.
She drove ordinary pale-blue frost from her three established Shards through the pinned sword arm instead. Ice surrounded each exposed command line where it crossed the sword, slowing the moving script without challenging its distant authority again.
[ Command threads under physical frost restraint ]
[ Source: Didi / three established Shards ]
[ Additional royal current: none ]
[ Estimated hold: one breath ]
Freezing the threads delayed their instructions without erasing the governing law or claiming control over its source. Didi supplied one measured interval through established frost, leaving the permanent answer dependent upon destroying the incarnation core.
"One breath," Didi said, locking both hands around the sword hilt, "after that, these lines finish inside me."
Hajin kept the incarnation core inside the Phase-Locked Chain instead of spending her opening immediately. Killing it before the archive route separated could release the gathered detonation through every connected record beneath them.
"Juna takes the downward discharge," he said, tracking its clean path inside Divine Eye, "Loccy keeps the floor between this room plus Ferra’s archive supports."
Juna opened her second and third Wings beside the northern wall inside the cleared strike corridor. Pale-gold pressure crossed above Didi without entering the frozen command threads or touching Ferra’s sealed royal pin cup.
The archive discharge passed through one empty vertical ward chase beyond the armor cabinets. Hajin marked its upper and lower edges, giving Juna a route containing no person, shelf, or occupied room.
She crossed the white-gold current once above the empty ward chase with both claws held together. Solar light formed between them, cutting the discharge route across its narrow center before the gathered detonation reached the archive seals.
The upper half recoiled into the Witness Avatar while the lower half extinguished above the preserved western index. No fire, command, or divine pressure entered Gazel’s prayer case or the demonic-core withdrawal ledger.
[ Archive-record detonation route: severed ]
[ Records reached by hostile discharge: zero ]
[ Juna contribution confirmed ]
Feedback from the severed route entered the coronation floor through its remaining ward connections instead. Nullstone squares lifted around their seams while the damaged western load circuit beneath them lost contact with Ferra’s emergency ceramic supports.
Loccy planted at the central floor junction with both numb arms hanging beside her body. Three broad Wings spread beneath separate nullstone sections, catching the first downward shift before it reached the archive ceiling.
She carried no stored Burdenfall impact inside her numbed arms after the statue-line release. Holding the floor required direct three-Wing force through her planted body, leaving no second release available against the avatar.
[ Coronation floor collapse initiated ]
[ Burdenfall stored impact: none ]
[ Temporary support: Loccy / three-Wing physical brace ]
The nullstone pressed her ankles into widening cracks while dark fault lines crossed every pale-gold span. Loccy kept all connected sections above the western archive without moving either planted foot.
"Floor stays here," she said, lowering her shoulders beneath the descending junction, "finish before my Wings choose another height."
Juna’s cut plus Loccy’s brace removed both routes the gathered detonation could use beyond its own shell. Didi’s ordinary frost still held the three command threads for the remainder of her promised breath.
Hajin corrected one final phase change as the Witness tried reversing incarnation behind the procession plate. Four Rings drove the Legendary Chain deeper through the visible seam without healing his burning shoulder pathways.
He released Divine Sever through the right hand holding the weapon after completing the final correction. Gold-purple light entered the first synchronized link, then crossed every Phase-Locked section at the exact incarnation frequency Aria had preserved.
[ Divine Sever channeled through Legendary Chain ]
[ Target seam: Witness Avatar incarnation core ]
[ Phase Lock: stable ]
[ Transfer vessels: none ]
[ Mortal hostage exposure: none ]
The severing line reached the core from every Chain contact instead of striking only its outer armor. Measurement split first, command separated from Didi’s frozen threads, plus incarnation lost the distant joint using this body as one inserted finger.
White-gold light tore backward through the procession armor when the local authority tried holding those phases together. Hajin maintained the corrected frequency until Divine Sever crossed the final narrow connection inside the exposed core.
The Witness Avatar raised one hand toward him after its governing law had already separated. Its smooth face fractured beneath the crowned helm, revealing no flesh, soul, or hidden mortal expression inside the dying body.
Hajin closed his right fist around the Legendary Chain and pulled once through the visible seam. The incarnation core divided into two silent halves before every remaining command thread vanished from the room.
Procession armor collapsed upon empty nullstone while the remote joint closed beyond Divine Eye’s reach. No replacement shell, soul transfer, rank label, or governing pressure appeared around the broken body.
[ Witness Avatar destroyed ]
[ Empty divine incarnation confirmed ]
[ Mortal souls harmed: 0 ]
[ Hajin gained: 15,000,000 EXP ]
[ Hajin — Ring V Progress: 42,630,000 / 50,000,000 EXP ]
[ Summon Juna contribution reward: 900,000 EXP ]
[ Juna — Wing Progress: 5,470,000 / 7,500,000 EXP ]
[ Summon Loccy contribution reward: 600,000 EXP ]
[ Loccy — Wing Progress: 6,740,000 / 7,500,000 EXP ]
[ Ring or Wing evolution threshold reached: none ]
Fifteen million EXP raised Hajin close to the next threshold without supplying the missing total. His fifth Ring remained unopened, leaving all final output inside the same four Rings used to win the battle.
Juna’s larger contribution reflected the active divine discharge she severed, while Loccy’s award recorded the floor plus archive she physically kept beneath the final strike. Neither support ledger duplicated Hajin’s larger authority-reclamation reward from severing the incarnation core itself.
Didi’s frozen threads broke harmlessly after their source disappeared, leaving three strained but intact Shards. Ferra’s removed royal pin remained sealed inside its ceramic cup, while Vella confirmed no pulse reached the preservation rail.
Loccy lowered the nullstone floor onto Ferra’s emergency supports only after Aria marked every load path stable. Her arms stayed numb, though all three Wings folded without losing a span or opening a fourth.
Hajin kept four Rings open until the last shard of procession armor stopped carrying hostile light. The Phase-Locked Chain remained around two halves of the empty core, while gold began gathering where ordinary monster loot should have formed.