The avatar rebuilt its choir through divine route bodies instead of mortal healers, and white-gold forms appeared at both ends of the marked mountain road.
Palace-side constructs tried to reopen Court law around Loccy’s burden while distant bodies formed inside the verified basin to create a second escape route, so Rumi and Nari felt both attacks through their linked anchors.
"Two hunts," Rumi said, spreading her amber Wings at the palace mouth, "cannot stand together."
Nari looked toward the distant mark and opened both smoke-gold folds before she said, "We stay separate, and you cross."
Rumi opened the known road and traveled alone toward the mountain basin while her two Wings sustained one person because no foundation mass entered behind her.
The route closed after she crossed, leaving the sisters on opposite sides of real distance while the crossing consumed more mana than every earlier person-wide route because the palace and mountain marks sat far beyond ordinary range.
Rumi landed on all fours, remembered her humanoid body, and stood without Nari’s hand available to steady her. Nari felt the stumble through their linked anchor at the palace and kept World Nail closed until Rumi confirmed her footing.
Their linked anchor remained intact without physical proximity, so the sisters had separated their bodies without separating the contract.
At the palace, Vella entered the attempted choir through direct touch on Hajin’s Spirit Ring while her demonic range stayed burned and she could separate mortal remnants only from nearby regeneration branches.
Ferra connected one remaining masterwork gauge to the palace constructs while the network identified heat or force but not souls, which left Vella responsible for every host distinction.
Didi froze royal commands when they tried using the Prince’s dead blood as fresh authorization, and Vella said, "Palace constructs contain three copied voices and no living hosts, while mountain bodies are divine route structures beyond my range."
Nari closed the palace-side constructs inside Last Exit, fixed every exposed spatial route while ordinary movement around Loccy and Hajin remained available.
One construct abandoned special movement and attacked physically, but Nari’s technique could not stop that change, so Hajin intercepted it with the Chain while she maintained the exposed exits.
Last Exit remained a route-control ability rather than a general paralysis field, and that limitation preserved the agreed sequence.
Rumi reached the mountain mark and faced bodies forming around the endpoint. She used Borrowed Distance across routes she physically touched, moving each divine attack into another construct without inventing destinations.
The basin remained inside Eirwen’s verified boundary, but recent palace debris had changed the local ground, so Rumi touched every new route before using it and avoided a fresh crevice that drained toward one marked headwater.
Her combat stayed inside surveyed space without assuming the map remained unchanged, and the avatar attempted to rebuild its central choir through both groups.
Vella entered the circulation between them and separated every remaining mortal echo from the hostile current. None retained a soul capable of rescue, but she preserved the residues in a Spirit vessel before destroying the regeneration branches.
Vella closed the palace current and said, "The choir cannot rebuild through these bodies, but spatial constructs remain active."
Nari destroyed the first palace mechanism after Ferra marked its empty core, and the valid contribution entered her progression.
Across the basin, Rumi tore through two route bodies whose attacks had already entered Borrowed Distance. Their destruction entered her separate ledger, while Nari received no duplicated credit.
The sisters continued through their linked sense rather than shared anatomy. Rumi described open approaches from the mountains while Nari reported closures around the palace.
Neither could see through the other’s eyes automatically, so their impressions carried direction, danger, and trust instead of a shared visual field.
At first, both tried answering the same threat through the bond. Rumi opened distance when Nari needed closure, while Nari fixed an endpoint her sister had already abandoned.
They corrected the mistake by naming each location aloud and building coordination around information instead of an imagined shared mind.
"Far endpoint widening," Nari said as she felt pressure through the mark, "can you hold?"
Rumi planted both claws into mountain stone and said, "I can break bodies, so you hold the road."
Nari fixed the palace mouth even when the avatar attacked her from three sides. Didi froze one royal remnant, Hajin pulled another away with the Chain, and Ferra marked the third.
Nari closed all exposed escapes and destroyed the cores inside their own failed routes. The final palace core tried following Rumi through the sibling anchor.
She closed only that hostile route while preserving their natural contract connection, which distinguished a chosen bond from an invading use of it.
At the mountain endpoint, Rumi opened a dead route through the remaining bodies. The path carried no traveler because it redirected the divine structures into distance they had already abandoned.
She crossed each touched seam and destroyed the active cores while both progression ledgers reached the threshold through separate achievements.
[Rumi: Experience Gained: 1,500,000]
[Wing 3 Threshold Reached: 1,500,000]
[Current Progress: 0 / 7,500,000]
[Technique Acquired: Dead Road]
[Nari: Experience Gained: 1,500,000]
[Wing 3 Threshold Reached: 1,500,000]
[Current Progress: 0 / 7,500,000]
[Technique Acquired: World Nail]
A third amber plane opened behind Rumi in the mountain basin while every assigned support remained intact.
Dead Road allowed her to sustain a previously touched known route after its ordinary middle died, but it did not invent destinations or move unlimited mass.
The Wing angled farther outward than her first two and carried faint path marks from locations she personally touched. None activated without a chosen endpoint, and its appearance did not grant awareness of unknown roads.
Nari’s third smoke-gold Wing unfolded at the palace. World Nail fixed one known spatial endpoint against hostile change without controlling ordinary movement around it.
Its inward plane formed a narrow point where the three folds met. That point could anchor a marked location while Nari remained present, but it could not fix distant ground she had never touched or survive limitless mass.
The evolution restored no mana to either sister, and both remained tired on separate ground. Rumi used Dead Road to preserve the burned connection between basin and palace while Nari placed World Nail through the far endpoint.
"I can hold it," Nari said, and her words reached Rumi through the linked contract without pulling either body across.
The mountain road stabilized enough for willing travelers before the central mass, but it still required Rumi at the far mark and Nari at the palace mouth.
Their separation became part of the function rather than a temporary trick, since the palace mass still required a stronger evolution and neither sister could abandon her endpoint.
Ferra sent one marked tool through the restored road, and Rumi received that same singular object in the basin without duplication or a hidden branch.
The safe arrival established a traveler path before Loccy tested the central structure. Rumi checked the basin’s headwater again before accepting another body through Dead Road.
Nari checked the palace mouth for Court interference before allowing the next tool, and their abilities did not erase distance or make the twins one mind.
Vella destroyed the final regeneration branch after all mortal residue cleared, so the avatar lost another method for rebuilding its choir.
Aria reconciled the twins’ ledgers independently and confirmed that neither received copied experience from the other’s battlefield. Their matching totals came from separate route bodies destroyed at opposite endpoints.
Rumi stood alone among broken divine bodies in the basin while Nari remained beneath the palace beside Loccy’s burden.
Both chose their ground and trusted the bond to remain without standing together. Their third Wings stayed open without refilling the mana spent reaching separate endpoints.
Vella recorded both exhaustion levels through the independent contract ledgers, and the records stayed separate just as the twins had chosen.
The restored road was narrow but real, and a willing traveler could cross if both sisters kept their endpoints while the palace mass waited for a stronger evolution.
Rumi held the basin while Nari held the palace. Between them, a single marked tool could travel, so chosen separation supported the rescue without becoming shared control.