The echoes of devotion still lingered from two prayer cycles when Ashu emerged from behind the obsidian effigy. Anna slumped against the Divine Matriarch's weathered plinth, her ivory skin glistening with residual sanctity.
"Should've swallowed your essence earlier," she rasped, tracing the divine sigils glowing beneath her collarbone. "The Matriarch's Sanctuary Power... it thrums like liquid starlight."
[Anna Kagreia has acquired: Sanctuary Power of the Divine Matriarch +1]
[Critical Return! Vessel has been granted: Sanctuary Power of the Divine Matriarch +26!]
Ashu's system interface pulsed crimson. "The duality persists - Her radiance quantifiable," he observed, "while Cidi's corruption seeps through ritual acts."
His calculations materialized in floating runes: 30,000 to 50,000 sessions required to surpass Midaldas' heretical mastery. At thirty daily couplings - augmented by sacrificial accelerants - the math became bearable.
