Rumi held the mountain endpoint while Nari nailed the palace mouth into place, and Dead Road stabilized the burned connection as willing travelers crossed before any mass entered.
Hajin went first with Vella withdrawn into her Spirit Ring, so the healer’s singular body traveled with him instead of remaining in two locations.
He carried the suppressed Decree Wound through the crossing while Phase Lock stayed inside his personal circuit and the external Court command remained attached across distance.
Rumi confirmed that the road moved his body and inventory together without separating the protected Sanctuary connection.
Ferra followed with the physical incarnation pin, Breaker’s Lever, and her own masterwork tools.
Ferra’s presence at the endpoint mattered because the avatar seam could not be repaired remotely.
The artifacts remained singular inside their assigned storage or physical sheaths, and she checked each one after arrival to ensure Dead Road had not distorted the pin’s maker mark or Breaker’s partially opened seal.
Juna remained on the capital roof route while Daybreak Path surrounded the divine sky aperture and waited for the core to commit. Didi and the King protected the final western archive circuit as civilians stayed beyond the foundation boundary.
Loccy stood beneath the central palace mass with four Wings spread, and Aria spoke through Hajin at the mountain basin after she verified the travelers.
"All willing travelers clear," Aria said, "Rumi holds the far mark, Nari holds the palace mouth, and the central structure contains only the avatar shell plus Loccy’s declared burden."
Eirwen supplied the final mountain occupancy check through riders beyond the boundary. Both passes remained closed, no trapped traveler appeared inside the basin, and headwater markers stayed outside the projected impact.
The destructive relocation proceeded only after the updated report, so Nari tightened World Nail and said, "Road fixed, move mass now."
Loccy released forward, but the first push moved only the palace edge. Worldbearer refused partial transfer because the declared structure remained connected, forcing Loccy to align every bearing plane toward the road.
Nari held the palace mouth while Rumi widened Dead Road around the complete boundary. Worldbearer then drove the entire connected foundation into the one-use passage.
Stone, throne supports, plus the bound avatar shell entered as one declared structure while Loccy followed through her physical attachment to what she carried.
The palace vanished from the capital, but the empty foundation socket tried to pull the King’s ward network behind it.
He anchored all twenty Shards inside the western archive circuit and severed royal supports only after Ferra’s engineers confirmed civilian protection.
No district wall followed the departing mass, and Aria recorded the result while every civilian support Loccy had excluded remained behind.
The western archive circuit shook but did not follow, and the King’s twenty Shards caught residual pressure across the emptied foundation while no district boundary collapsed.
At the mountain endpoint, Rumi’s three Wings spread around Dead Road while the central mass emerged above the verified basin with Hajin and Ferra already beyond its impact line.
Loccy drove downward as the entire palace foundation smashed the avatar shell into the mountains, three peaks collapsed around the impact, and white-gold armor cracked beneath the connected stone.
Ferra’s incarnation pin remained lodged in the shell edge rather than striking the still-hidden core, and the impact carved a basin within the existing exclusion belt while dust rose above the range.
Juna’s distant path stayed in open sky beyond the cloud while Eirwen’s riders withdrew behind the surveyed passes before debris arrived. Both of Loccy’s arms fractured, and Aria recorded the result inside the active ledger.
The breaks occurred after the central mass landed, when Worldbearer carried the rebound away from the capital and through Loccy’s body. Vella heard the bones fail through direct Spirit contact and prepared splints before Loccy reached the ground.
Worldbearer carried the final impact through Loccy’s body before release. Two manifested Wings collapsed, leaving four progression Wings intact but only two physically sustainable for the rest of the battle.
Loccy fell beside the broken foundation while the nearby formation held every assigned position. Vella emerged from the Spirit Ring at Hajin’s location and reached Loccy by touch.
She set both arms, stopped bleeding, and examined torn Wing pathways before she said, "All four Wings remain part of you, but two collapsed manifestations stay closed during this fight, and full four-Wing use requires six weeks of recovery."
Loccy breathed through the splints and said, "Record six weeks, and do not shorten it because the shell cracked."
Aria added the restriction without removing progression inside the established operational boundary.
[Loccy: Worldbearer release complete]
[Physical injuries: Both arms fractured]
[Manifested Wings collapsed: 2]
[Progression Wings retained: 4]
[Minimum full-manifestation recovery: 6 weeks]
The ledger did not erase the four progression Wings or convert the collapse into a permanent loss. It recorded only the two manifestations that Worldbearer had forced through Loccy’s body during the impact.
Loccy’s remaining Wings could still support controlled movement, but Vella barred a full display until the six-week recovery ended. Any attempt to bypass that restriction would risk the same torn pathways.
Ferra kept the broken foundation outside the inventory while Aria separated the physical damage from the unchanged progression record. No experience came from the palace impact, and no Fragment entered the ledger.
Dead Road burned out after the palace mass crossed, so Rumi’s third Wing remained part of her progression while the one-use route stayed closed during this battle.
Nari released World Nail at the empty capital mouth after she ensured that no returning fragment crossed, and the spatial middle collapsed into harmless amber dust that could not carry a traveler back.
The mountain team became separated from the capital until ordinary roads or a later recovered route became available.
Rumi remained beside Hajin, Ferra, Vella, plus injured Loccy in the basin while Nari stayed in the capital with Didi and the King.
Their linked contract carried confirmation but no sensory panorama, so Rumi knew Nari remained alive and exhausted while Nari knew the palace had arrived without seeing the battlefield.
Neither could see the other’s position or lend mana across the distance, so Rumi dismissed her shaking Wings and said, "Road gone, sister safe there."
Nari’s answering impression carried exhaustion and confirmation through their contract inside the established operational boundary.
The avatar shell cracked but did not die as white-gold light rose through broken palace stone and the hidden core began leaving the ruined mass toward its open sky route.
Aria registered no kill, experience, or Fragment increase from the impact because the palace destroyed the armor and its location rather than the complete incarnation.
Hajin kept the progression ledger closed while Ferra inspected the lodged pin and avoided Loccy’s fracture treatment.
Ferra touched the damaged metal and said, "The pin remains in the shell edge, but the core is moving beyond it, so I must recover the pin before the shell dies."
Juna’s voice arrived from the distant capital roof, and she said, "The sky route is stretching toward the mountains, and the Daybreak return line remains complete."
Hajin stored the Legendary Chain after the shell stopped moving, and the matched blades waited in inventory while Breaker’s Lever remained available for one approved shoulder sequence.
Ferra recovered the Chain anchor from broken throne stone before Hajin stored the weapon, which ensured that no palace fragment entered inventory with it.
Vella finished Loccy’s first splints and positioned her beyond the expected core route. Rumi touched every approach between the treatment ground and Ferra’s pin, providing short known paths without attempting the burned Dead Road.
The new third Wing remained available, but its one-use mass route did not.
Nari confirmed from the capital that World Nail had closed behind the palace, and no return debris or divine command entered the western archive through the vanished road.
Loccy had dropped a palace on a god and paid with both arms. The road, two Wings, and three peaks were gone from the battle while the complete incarnation finally stood beyond every civilian wall.
Eirwen’s riders recorded the collapsed peaks inside the exclusion belt and kept both mountain passes sealed. Vella maintained the six-week restriction before turning toward Hajin’s approaching duel, and Ferra secured the recovered pin inside its damaged physical sheath.