Two hands dropped onto Ren’s shoulders at the exact same moment.
Mayo on his left; Min on his right.
"This is exactly what he wanted, boss," Mayo said, her voice surprisingly gentle, completely dropping her usual theatrical quality. "You didn’t force him to sacrifice his arm. He volunteered completely on his own, and just the other day he explicitly told us he was perfectly ready to forfeit years of his life for the cause... It would actually be a brilliant joke if..."
"And it absolutely does not matter as long as you possess the capacity to thaw him out later," Min interjected, smoothly cutting Mayo off before she ruined her previous decent line, wielding that unique brand of easy levity he always deployed whenever the atmosphere grew too suffocating.
Then he failed to not ruin his own...
"Luna’s mother flawlessly preserved her youth for the entire duration she was entombed in the crystal, correct? For Li, the process will be exactly the same. You can see the experience as an extreme, highly exclusive skincare treatment. If you take your time taking him out, he emerges ten years younger without a single extra wrinkle."
Mayo let out a sharp, genuine laugh. "Now I’m actually a little envious. I demand my own free, Platinum-tier spa treatment."
"You could certainly use the help to keep that young face; come find me in ten years," Min fired back.
"Excuse me?! I’ll also be as beautiful when old than...!"
Luna swiftly stepped forward before the duo could fully launch into their usual comedic routine.
"Li was absolutely correct to protect you," she stated softly, her eyes locked onto Ren. "We cannot guarantee your biological system can successfully repel the crystallization trap in its current, heavily compromised state. You successfully analyzed and bypassed the mechanism in the previous ruin, yes. But today, with those shards actively obstructing your flow, you cannot be certain of your immunity. Taking the absolute safest route was the correct decision. He understood that reality better than anyone else."
Ren offered no argument, simply because he knew her logic was flawless.
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"Wei, take the vanguard," Ren commanded, letting out another long sigh, fully accepting his frustrating position as the critical asset who absolutely had to remain operational to save everyone else, and therefore, could not risk his own neck. "If we are going to proceed with extreme caution, we will maintain that protocol until the end. But stay vigilant; I absolutely do not want anyone else turning into décor simply because we grew overconfident."
Wei cautiously approached the threshold. With Li’s core crystal now fully installed and pulsating in the receptacle, the new fungal expert deployed his golden network across the metal. He established a superficial uplink with Ren, allowing the Glorious General to safely analyze the intricate runic architecture from a distance. Working in tandem, they began to decipher the activation parameters.
Piece by piece, the ancient encrypted details emerged.
The mechanism was remarkably similar to the impenetrable vault resting beneath the Yano and Yino castles, even down to its specific biometric requirements. The door responded exclusively to a sovereign authority permanently encoded into the user’s mana system; a distinct right that both Ren and Luna currently possessed.
Either one of them could theoretically trigger the activation sequence.
Ren found the revelation simultaneously bizarre and deeply fascinating. There had to be a profound, historical reason why an ancient system explicitly designed, according to the encrypted data, to resurrect a sovereign dragon was actively granting administrative access to human vessels.

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