Leon wasn't letting the energy disperse. He was commanding it to stay.
Leon's brow furrowed in deep concentration, eyes glowing faintly with blue and violet light. "Please," he said calmly, voice echoing faintly through their mental link.
"Try not to say anything for now. I'll need my full focus for this."
Originus fell silent at once, his pride momentarily forgotten.
What Leon was attempting defied logic, it defied the very rules the world was built upon. To restrain three separate cores without them combusting or seeking a new host required precision at the level of gods.
The air around Leon vibrated, shimmering as if struggling to contain what his mind alone was holding steady.
Every second he maintained it, he was rewriting how energy behaved, bending reality by sheer force of will.
And Originus, for all his millennia of wisdom, could only watch in awe.
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