"What was that?" Kroya caught the grapevine, which was already rather weak, and asked in puzzlement, "I can feel that he's been revived, but the revival isn't exactly... complete?"
The Astral Body Inscription Technique was still working.
He could clearly see that the magic runes inside the jelly-like sun beneath its steel shell were missing their most crucial core. That area was still utterly lifeless.
He could not even communicate with this "Icarus."
Icarus was like a brain-dead patient in a vegetative state. Though his body retained its vitality, he was merely lingering on, and only his innate properties kept him shining.
The grapevine could not answer Kroya's question either.
It conveyed a weak thought: "I need to go back and rest."
Then it returned directly through the spatial passage it had come through.
Clearly, it was so exhausted that it could no longer even transmit its thoughts.
There was little Kroya could do. He could only ask the Skeleton King, Theodore, and the others back there to keep a closer eye on it before turning his attention to the sun.
Unfortunately, even Kroya had moments when he was powerless.
He tried hard to communicate, even using the Rainbow Poem and the Astral Body Inscription Technique, but nothing worked. Only the sun's "body" was still alive.
By then, the Ring of Radiance had mostly finished its survey:
"Charging is progressing smoothly."
"The farm's damaged ecosystems and Elemental Plane passages can also be repaired."
"The only problem is that too many things are missing here."
The waves of platinum rings released by the Ring of Radiance had completely taken over the place. With the spatial key reinforced and rewritten by it, not even the empire's emperor could intrude.
Its power could even force the issue. Even without Kroya possessing the spatial