"I don't know who it was, but they managed to injure the master this badly."
"When the time comes, the master will inform us. Stay vigilant and don't let anything interrupt the master's healing."
"True enough. Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I've seen such a blue sky."
Around the Rift Gorge, Pandor and Yan Changkong spread out, one for monitoring the environment, the other for gathering external intelligence.
For several days, the gorge area was unusually quiet.
And in the deepest part of the great crevice, an ancient construct resembling a pyramid lay still, sunken at the bottom of the gorge.
Occasionally, magnetic light flickered from it, with sparks flying and scattering.
A closer look revealed several cylinder-shaped silver mechanical arms, inside a melting alloy chamber, attempting to weld and repair the Ark device according to some command.
Sizzle!
Sparks rose and then extinguished.
