While everyone else battled waves of golems, Emery was locked in a brutal soul-to-soul clash with the legendary Celestial Machinist.
Even in this weakened state, Randhall's mental fortitude was terrifying. He was a grand-master craftsman whose will had been tempered by thousands of masterpieces, each one sharpening his discipline and resolve. His soul was a fortress built on centuries of obsession.
Emery was fortunate that what he faced was only a fragmented remnant, an incomplete consciousness revived through Dravic's body. Even so, breaching such a mind required everything he possessed. After several brutal clashes—soul strikes, mental binds—Emery finally pushed through the defenses and carved a path inside Randhall's soulscape.
What greeted him was a fractured world, a mosaic of drifting memories.
