Loccy opened one controlled release through the direction Hajin had cut across the Ordered Court, separating outer palace mass from the central foundation.
Ferra painted the dividing line across the throne support, western archive wall, plus three corridors carrying Didi, Hajin, and Vella.
Exactly four Masterwork fixtures remained connected after one had failed during the final forging, with no replacement made during the intervening battle.
The four surviving points appeared on Ferra’s map while the King’s dais plus the Crowned core stayed at its protected center.
She checked every marker before reporting, "Civilian supports remain outside the release, all four fixtures hold, plus the outer mass has a clear mountain path."
Rumi touched the palace mark through two amber Wings while Nari fixed the distant basin endpoint with two smoke-gold planes.
The twins could mark a direction without carrying the central foundation through its middle, leaving that greater burden around Loccy’s four Wings.
Hajin’s wounded boundary gave enough direction for the outer portion while his Decree Wound remained suppressed behind Didi’s protected line.
Ferra knelt beside the painted boundary before warning, "Any foot crossing this mark changes who receives the next foundation fracture."
Loccy looked toward each cleared corridor as she asked, "Which part of this palace am I allowed to release from Worldbearer?"
Ferra traced the outer map before replying, "Failed nodes plus disconnected halls leave, while the throne, archive supports, plus central heart remain."
The finite declaration gave Worldbearer a burden Loccy could separate without dropping the entire palace onto the capital.
Rumi’s claws shook around the opening while Nari kept the far endpoint from bending toward occupied passes below.
Hajin watched both marks before saying, "Hold the direction only, since your paired Wings cannot carry the mass between those points."
Loccy flexed her fingers while foundation weight answered through her bones, making every fracture visible across the floor.
She released the declared outer mass through the seam as stone entered a controlled fall away from the throne.
The movement deepened fractures along both arms while Vella stabilized one wrist through direct physical contact.
The first outer hall tore free along Ferra’s painted boundary, raising dust that turned toward Rumi’s amber route.
Nari held the distant mark against the capital, forcing each broken section toward the verified mountain exclusion belt.
Loccy’s knees dipped under the central weight that remained, but all four Wings stayed planted around its occupied structure.
Vella caught her wrist before Loccy reported, "The declared outer mass is moving, while the central structure still belongs to my body."
The first Masterwork fixture snapped when released stone dragged white-gold backlash across its maker mark.
Ferra cut that dead point from her network before the broken tool could send force toward the archive supports.
The second fixture failed beneath a separated corridor, but its mundane braces kept the recovery room above the remaining foundation.
Ferra held the last two connections through another wave, grounding its force outside every civilian boundary before the third maker mark began shaking.
The broken outer halls pulled against the network from different heights, forcing her to choose which surviving fixture received each fragment’s recoil.
She sent roof weight through the northern point while the western piece accepted a collapsing stair, keeping both impacts away from occupied rooms.
An ordinary archive clerk watched the mundane support gauge while calling each change to Ferra without touching the dying Masterwork circuit.
"Western brace remains seated," the clerk said as its needle crossed red, "but another direct transfer will bend the upper collar."
Ferra shifted that transfer toward empty foundation stone, preserving the mundane brace while the northern fixture took its final safe load.
The third piece cracked after the final hall crossed Rumi’s mark, leaving one Masterwork fixture active inside Ferra’s network.
Its broken maker mark went dark on the map as Ferra wrote the third loss into Aria’s operation record.
That last piece received the outer node collapse as divine mechanisms shattered throughout the moving foundation.
Loccy felt the final impact enter her declared burden, then held the central mass still while Ferra separated that weight from the outgoing debris.
Vella kept one hand on Loccy’s wrist, checking pulse plus bone strain without sending healing into the active foundation law.
"Central declaration remains stable," Vella said after the last outer corridor moved, "with no released fragment returning through her four Wings."
Ferra checked the civilian map once more, then allowed the final fixture to ground the white-gold recoil waiting beyond it.
Its maker mark flashed once, then the fixture split beneath its collar while Ferra felt the network go silent.
"The fourth fixture has failed," Ferra said as she closed Masterwork Network, "so zero remote Masterwork supports remain active after this release."
Mundane iron braces held the western archive plus recovery corridor after every personally forged fixture had been lost.
Didi kept Crowned Frost across the royal line while the capital received one short tremor instead of a complete collapse.
Vella confirmed that no unwilling mind remained inside any released node before Aria reconciled the fixed operation ledger.
[Ordered Court Outer Nodes Destroyed]
[Operation Ledger Reconciled: 2,800,000 EXP]
[Hajin Current Experience: 100,000,000 / 250,000,000]
The receipt closed without opening another Ring, leaving assigned stats plus the Decree Wound unchanged after the release.
Rumi closed the palace mark after the final fragment crossed, while Nari sealed the mountain endpoint behind it.
Eirwen’s riders confirmed every piece had landed inside the exclusion belt, away from passes, headwaters, plus the sealed mine.
Loccy remained beneath the throne with the central avatar-occupied structure held across her four Wings.
She tested the smaller burden before saying, "The outer mass has cleared, but the central structure remains declared under all four Wings."
Empty gaps replaced the destroyed Court nodes while the central core still held the Prince’s heart, foundation key, plus incarnation center.
Didi advanced from her tenth pace as Crowned Frost isolated her brother’s mortal heartbeat from the surrounding divine circulation.
The separation did not rescue him, but it kept his next answer from being hidden beneath Dominion’s voice.
Hajin remained behind her line with both unnamed blades lowered, giving the final royal exchange no physical interruption.
The Prince’s face appeared beneath his cracked white-gold helm while one hand closed around the foundation key.
Didi saw the brother who had once trained beside her, then watched the same fingers tighten around the object used to order her death.
She kept her sword sheathed before saying, "Release the key now, stop your command, plus leave your heart outside the God."
White-gold pressure closed around the isolated heartbeat while the Crowned core produced a vibration that numbed her wrist.
The Prince held the key before answering, "You ask me to abandon the only authority that ever made my value visible."
Didi tightened her frost while blood opened across her palm, yet she gave him enough silence to finish in his own voice.
He watched the broken city beyond the throne before adding, "I won’t return to a Crown that measures me as disposable."
She let that refusal enter Aria’s record before saying, "The outer Court is gone, but a tribunal still receives surrender."
The Prince’s mouth twisted as he replied, "You destroyed the only order that recognized me, so I reject your pity as law."
Didi kept her grief inside the hand gripping her sheath while asking, "Will you release the key before your heart becomes this foundation’s last lock?"
Dominion pushed through his throat with the command, "Remove the refusing blood, then complete the incarnation through the royal line."
Didi refused to draw against the God’s borrowed sentence before saying, "Answer through your own breath, or this command proves nothing about you."
Divine Eye separated the Prince’s heartbeat, breath, plus eye movement from the rhythm pressing around his mortal body.
His own focus returned while the hand around the key turned by one deliberate fraction.
He looked at the God within him before ordering, "Use every remaining part of me to kill Didi before the Crown takes what I built."
The key answered his blood authorization while Dominion received explicit permission instead of seizing a silent host.
Aria recorded the voice, heartbeat, plus physical movement as Vella confirmed his mortal soul remained present during the order.
She completed the finding before saying, "Final surrender refused, with the willing vessel ordering lethal action against Didi."
The King maintained city containment without sending any Shard toward his son, leaving the chosen consequence with Didi.
Loccy carried the central foundation while Juna guarded the sky route, plus Ferra watched the damaged incarnation pin.
Didi closed her eyes for one heartbeat while silver frost kept her brother’s mortal circulation separate from the God.
She opened them before saying, "Your answer is recorded, so I won’t let Dominion revise it after your voice ends."
Her sword left its sheath under her own authority, with no system receipt or Crown command deciding the movement.
The King moved containment away from the throne while Hajin kept both matched blades lowered behind her line.
Ferra cleared mundane debris from the frozen path as Loccy held the central mass without shifting its declaration.
The Prince tightened the key once more, sending gathered force toward Didi’s chest through his authorized divine core.
She fixed his mortal heartbeat within a narrow silver path before saying, "Your final order turned this choice into a physical attack."
The blade entered that frozen route while his death pressure tried to spread outward through the royal foundation.
The King’s twenty Shards received the first discharge, carrying it toward empty reservoirs instead of occupied streets.
Didi’s wrist shook as her edge approached the isolated heart, but she refused to let that pain disguise who had chosen the attack.
Her brother’s mortal pulse struck once against Crowned Frost while the Dominion God gathered behind it for another command.
Silver authority carried her blade across the final pace before the fused heart could release that force into the capital.
The Crowned Avatar lost every outer law while Didi’s strike entered the one path that would end her brother’s chosen command.