Max kept the challenge review short.
Aderic reported the decisions that led to each seal, the attempted alliance with Varkesh, the third team's destruction, and the final battle. Dagna described the mechanisms they encountered. Siv explained where enemy scouts succeeded and where they failed. The revived orc bulwark listened to the portion of the battle he had missed.
Max approved replacing damaged equipment and adding the ruined city's mechanisms to future training exercises. He did not rebuild the entire elite unit around one challenge. They had succeeded because they adapted, not because they guessed the correct terrain in advance.
The twenty Eternal Souls returned to training after two days of recovery.
Anna returned to her ordinary work before they did.
Her morning began with a clipboard, three messages from settlement representatives, a request for larger cooking pots, and a complaint written on bark because the dryad who sent it disliked paper.
