The hostless avatar drove white-gold failure into Ferra’s incarnation pin while Hajin’s Chain held the rising shell above the throne.
No remote Masterwork fixture received that overload, since all four surviving supports had broken during Loccy’s outer release.
Masterwork Network had zero distant pieces after Chapter 425, leaving Ferra only the pin plus tools within her physical reach.
Mundane braces carried the archive, recovery room, plus evacuation corridor under royal engineers who watched every ordinary gauge.
Aria displayed that state before the avatar struck again, preventing any dead fixture from returning through careless language.
[Remote Masterwork Fixtures: 0]
[Local Masterwork Connection: Incarnation Pin]
[Civilian Supports: Mundane Braces]
The pin’s melted point heated under divine force while Ferra closed her second Wing around its single local maker mark.
She placed two mundane ceramic screens between the pin plus archive approach, giving any scattered fragment a physical barrier without adding network connections.
An engineer secured each screen with iron feet, then wrote its location beside the ordinary brace map for later removal.
The preparation offered no magical support, but it kept Ferra’s local repair from turning broken metal into danger for the evacuation corridor.
She felt no archive route through the skill, so any failure would stay near her body unless the shell opened a new physical path.
One royal engineer checked the western gauge before reporting, "Archive collar holds under ordinary iron, with no supernatural line attached."
Ferra kept her gaze on the pin before replying, "Then protect those braces as structures, not pieces of my network."
Hajin turned the shell by one handspan with the Chain, exposing enough of the pinned seam for her approach.
The movement pulled against his Decree Wound while Vella tightened its pressure support through direct contact.
Ferra crossed the empty throne floor with insulated tongs plus a short hammer instead of opening a broad forge effect.
Didi cleared royal residue ahead of her, freezing every white-gold line that tried to connect the pin with dead blood.
Ferra waited whenever Chain tension changed, refusing to strike finite metal through a moving seam.
She raised the hammer before ordering, "Hold the shell three fingers left, then keep the Chain at that exact tension."
Hajin adjusted his right hand while the hostless body groaned against Legendary links wrapped around its shoulder.
The pin stopped shaking for one breath, giving Ferra a stable interval for three measured blows.
Her first strike straightened the outer collar while the second seated its refusal fragments against the shell.
The third blow folded the damaged point around the exposed boundary, preserving contact without pretending to restore lost metal.
Masterwork Network carried heat only between Ferra’s local Wing plus the pin beneath her tongs.
One floating gauge cracked while absorbing a sharp temperature change, then dropped into her waiting leather apron.
The evolution created no replacement, so another empty socket appeared beside the two tools lost during earlier overloads.
Ferra wrapped the fragments before placing them inside her marked repair pouch with every prior broken piece.
She checked the pin again before saying, "Local circuit stable, zero remote fixtures, plus one more floating tool lost."
The repaired collar could survive one planned sequence, but its melted point would fail under another uncontrolled palace load.
Ferra withdrew across the cleared floor while Hajin maintained Chain tension without striking the central foundation.
Both unnamed Growth blades remained inside inventory, leaving the Chain alone in his right hand during the shell binding.
Aria projected each blade’s registered frequency through Aegis so Ferra could inspect them without retrieving either weapon.
The divine blade retained its authority-severing structure without accepting Dominion’s rank order.
Its demonic mate carried no trapped soul, plus the child’s former ownership mark did not return beneath the new pressure.
Vella checked both signatures from direct range before saying, "The set remains clean, with no route entering inventory from the shell."
Ferra compared their matched registration against the Crossed Resonance wound still visible across the Court boundary.
Aria rotated the projected grip records while Ferra inspected each ridge for changes caused by the first completed strike.
Three raised lines remained on the divine hilt, while two recessed grooves remained on the demonic mate without alteration.
The registration showed no extra edge, duplicated blade, plus hidden third weapon within the matched set.
Both weapons recognized the same seam frequency while neither gained a name, foreign property, or independent behavior.
She approved their later retrieval, but Hajin kept them stored while his right hand remained occupied by the Chain.
The avatar struck the Chain again, sending ordinary physical backlash into his already damaged shoulder.
No refusal brace protected his forearm now, since the replacement used in Chapter 421 had been stripped away as unsafe debris.
Vella separated the shoulder injury from his Decree Wound, treating one burned pathway without feeding the royal command.
Her fingers followed the torn branch beneath his collarbone while gold pressure closed its worst opening.
She stopped at the approved limit before saying, "This restores function for one Lever turn plus one crossed strike, not a duel."
Hajin tested his fingers against the Chain while answering, "Then one turn plus one strike is the complete plan."
Ferra built an ordinary motion support around that medical finding from leather, rigid splints, plus one uncontaminated forge strip.
The new support contained no refusal lattice, absorbed no decree backlash, plus carried no promise beyond limiting unsafe shoulder movement.
She drew Vella’s approved range onto the leather before saying, "This is a movement guide, not armor for your pathways."
Hajin practiced one empty rotation, stopping as his knuckles reached the marked line without placing force through it.
Vella watched the motion before confirming, "That endpoint preserves one later Lever use if no extra strain reaches the joint."
The avatar sent another pulse into the pin, but Ferra caught it within the single local connection.
She vented its heat into a mundane sand tray beside her feet instead of sending it toward nonexistent remote fixtures.
The tray’s iron rim warped under the load while every western archive gauge remained unchanged.
Rumi plus Nari held the mountain marks as direction only, while Loccy kept the central mass across four Wings.
Juna watched the sky aperture while Didi protected Ferra’s local work area from remaining royal commands.
The child stayed inside the western archive under physical wards with no Masterwork route entering that refuge.
Vella checked Sanctuary through its separate buffer before reporting, "Her core remains stable, with no forge backlash reaching the protected bond."
Ferra inspected Breaker’s Lever while Hajin held the Chain, keeping the artifact inside inventory during her external registration check.
Its partially opened seal remained intact, so Incarnation Wedge could still engage one exposed physical seam.
She arranged the next inventory order for Aria, placing the Lever after the Chain’s storage confirmation.
Collector’s Grasp required Hajin’s bare left hand, while both matched blades could appear only after those artifacts cleared.
[Next Sequence]
[1. Store Legendary Chain]
[2. Retrieve Breaker’s Lever: Right Hand]
[3. Manifest Collector’s Grasp: Left Hand]
[4. Release Both Artifacts After Pin Placement]
[5. Retrieve Matched Blades: Right Then Left]
Ferra checked the strongest Chain link while Didi froze one false ownership seal across its outer surface.
She scraped that dead command away with a mundane tool, leaving the restored Legendary metal intact beneath it.
Another local pin overload bent the sand tray while Ferra kept Masterwork Network closed beyond arm’s reach.
Royal engineers signed every mundane support check before she accepted that no distant maker mark remained available.
The lost network range did not reduce her second Wing’s progression, but it removed every remote path she once used.
She reviewed the broken-tool pouch, repaired pin collar, ordinary shoulder support, plus intact Lever before closing the forge ledger.
Vella signed beside the shoulder range, while Didi signed beneath the scraped Chain seal as witness to its removal.
The senior engineer added zero remote fixtures beside his support map, making the absence part of the shared operation record.
Ferra read all three entries aloud, then sealed the page against any later claim that destroyed equipment had returned.
Nothing in that record promised survival, while each remaining object carried one stated purpose within the coming sequence.
Ferra approached the shell again as the Chain groaned, keeping her second Wing folded around the local pin alone.
Zero Masterwork fixtures stood beneath the archive, while mundane braces plus named engineers preserved every civilian support.
She touched the repaired collar with insulated tongs, then waited for Hajin to announce the next stable tension.
Her masterpiece remained finite, held together by prepared hands instead of tools resurrected after their recorded destruction.
Every surviving option now had a witness, limit, plus physical place.