Elias accepted the emergency task before he could think himself out of it.
Pain pressed behind his eyes, sharp enough to make the room tilt. The broken panel finished assembling in his sight, but Elias forced himself to read it as information, not a command.
Three things mattered. Defeat the Rhino shard user. Save the teleportation shard user. Stay alive. The last one felt insulting until the floor shifted under his boots and Yui caught him by the collar.
"Elias, answer me with real words because your face just went white and I am holding a conversation alone." Elias blinked until the hallway returned to normal color.
"Call Elara back right now, because the thing that hit me before is connected to this, and the warning named a Rhino Ikona with heavy impact."
Yui did not release him. "You got all that from the shard?" "I got enough to know we are late, and Joji's son is not just missing because he is the rescue condition."
