Lucien reached into his inventory and drew out Breath Glass Film.
He pressed it into the air and peered through.
Aerolith's inner circulation revealed itself.
Then he saw it.
Her energy flow was wrong. It stuttered in several places, foreign Laws clung like barbed wire wrapped around her mana vessels.
Lucien's eyes narrowed.
Mana was failing to reach her beast core.
Her body persisted only because of her Law of Continuance.
He moved at once.
First, he dealt with the foreign Laws.
Lucien invoked decay.
He guided it with surgical precision through Aerolith's inner map. Each foreign strand was treated like a parasite attached to a vital organ. He did not let decay graze anything else. One slip would ruin her.
His control tightened.
Decay kissed the first foreign knot.
It withered instantly.
A second strand resisted, clinging harder.
Lucien's eyes sharpened.
He adjusted decay's angle, the clause that allowed it to remain.
The foreign Law lost its "right" to persist.
