Zen didn't waste a single second running for the obsidian stairs.
Drawing immediately on the icy, dense power he had just siphoned from Nyx not long ago, he bypassed physical movement entirely.
He activated his newly enhanced 'Shadow' abilities, feeling the massive, immediate 400% boost to his spatial processing kick in. The heavy shadows cast by the vault's burning runes rose up and swallowed him whole.
He melted through the spatial layers of the palace, bypassing thick marble walls, and vaulted ceilings in a blur of motion. The physical world outside the shadows became nothing but a muted, gray smear.
In less than three seconds, he traversed a distance that would have taken a normal person ten minutes to sprint, materializing seamlessly from the darkness of a secluded alcove in the eastern guest wing.
"Maya!"
He found her instantly.
