Seeing that Walker had been fairly forthcoming, Lynn withdrew his attention and looked away from the scene Myriad Phenomena had relayed.
Now that all the materials for the restraints had been gathered, it was time to deal with Aldric.
With Myriad Phenomena here, he could not stir up any trouble.
Lynn returned to the cathedral laboratory.
The door closed behind him, and gray-white light seeped from the edges of the walls, illuminating the stone platform at the center of the room.
He took out the materials he had purchased from his ring and arranged them across the platform.
Several metal solutions in different bottles, a roll of rune cloth soaked in stabilizer, a set of runes specifically for restraints, a polished crystalline core, and a small pouch of dark silver powder.
Lynn untied the pouch and poured a small amount into his palm. The powder glimmered faintly upon contact with the air, its color like dried ashes.
He removed Aldric's body from the sealed container and laid it flat on the stone platform.
The body had been preserved perfectly, with no obvious changes since his breathing had stopped.
At a glance, he looked like an ordinary old man who had just fallen asleep.
Lynn gripped the black rune pen again, dipped its tip into a little metal solution, and began drawing at the starting point of the first rune.
When the tip touched the skin, it left a fine dark-gray line that extended along the collarbone, split at the center of the chest, and curved outward to both sides.
Lynn's hand was steady, and every line precisely matched the paths in the restraint blueprint.
The restraints designed for Aldric were exceptionally complex. Not only were the materials used to inscribe them expensive, but the restraints were also linked together. Triggering