Chapter 628: A Path That Keeps No Element
The circulation became easier with repetition. By the second day he could complete one without concentrating. By the fourth he could run four in succession. By the end of the fifth day the thread had thickened from something like lamplight to something like a candle, which was still absurd and no longer felt absurd.
Then he started putting affinities through it.
Fire went first, because he understood Fire as well as he understood breathing. He drew a thread, gave it fire nature at the intake, and sent it around.
It worked on the first attempt. The route carried it, the neutral section handled it without complaint, and the whole circulation closed clean.
Leon sat with that for a moment, pleased, and then ran Water immediately afterward to confirm.
Water made it to the neutral section and came apart.
