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"It is mythic," Luna said softly, her voice a hush that echoed against the stone walls. "My grandmother once told me a tale about a fox from the starwood clans. She stumbled upon a Well of Crowned Ash, shimmering with essence so pure it bent the moonlight. After one sip, she leapt from a mere one star to a six star rank beast overnight. She accidentally get to the place." Luna's hands trembled slightly. "But when dawn came, the well's guardians twisted amalgams made of every soul it had devoured rose and tore her to shreds. She couldn't bear the power."
Kai's jaw tightened. "We won't be that fox."
He turned to the open crates beside the war table. The faint aura hum from their contents buzzed through the air. "The stinglets Skyweaver forged laced with aura magnetite should disrupt those guardians' composite fields. We'll carry mirror shards to anchor us if the fissure fractures reality. And I'll mark our path using my Aura Insight to read the ley-lines."
