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Each piece he removed brought another update.
[Target distance: 11.7 meters.]
Sekhmet pulled out another slab.
[Target distance: 8.1 meters.]
Another.
[Target distance: 4.6 meters.]
Sekhmet slowed further.
He stopped using chaos energy.
From this point onward, he relied only on physical strength.
He pulled loose stones out one by one.
Dust covered his clothes.
Small fragments fell around his feet.
Then his fingers touched something different.
Not rock.
Smooth.
Sekhmet froze.
He slowly removed the surrounding dust.
A small section of black material became visible.
At first glance, it looked almost exactly like the surrounding Void Land stone.
Sekhmet carefully cleared more.
The object was much smaller than he remembered from the middle of the battle.
Or perhaps it had simply looked larger while surrounded by all that power.
He removed the final stone covering it.
The black seed rested inside a narrow pocket of crushed rock.
