Chapter 661: The Highest Signal
Leon tested the outward route himself before he let anyone near it.
He sent a marked stone through on a line, then a second, then walked into the correspondence himself for four paces and came back out. It held every time, and it held without effort — with all three anchors live and the hostile authority stripped out of the dais, the route behaved like a corridor rather than a coincidence.
"It's stable," he said. "Deacon, your people first, in order, no gaps."
The nine went through as an organised group, and Yu counted them out loud and then counted them again on the far side.
The seven prisoners went next with their cultivations sealed, Seraphine leading and Ira behind them, and Leon watched Ira position herself so that any one of them who broke would go through her before anything else.
