The spatial relay inside the lower bioreactor basin hummed with a steady blue radiance as the imperial artificers finalised the containment barrier.
Kale Ardentis stood beside the central console, his white-gold Master medallion absorbing the ambient energy shifts in the subterranean hall.
Beside him, Grandmaster Lazek Oberon placed his curved smoking pipe into his coat pocket, ready to return to the upper fortress.
With the Primordial Bio Sentinel core secured and the Void Drake nervous matrix safely sealed in his padded travel case, the initial sweep was complete.
The ancient bioreactor array continued its automated cycle, preserving hundreds of dormant genetic samples under imperial guard protection.
Grandmaster Kraul remained behind in the lower basin, supervising the construction of heavy iron barricades along the canyon entrance.
Kale stepped onto the elevated brass platform, stepping through the shimmering purple portal of the Primordial Gate.
