Gros Tera appeared at the opposite end of the lobby as the challenge formation finished sealing the space around them. Black markings ran from his wrists beneath the sleeves of his robes, and every time his Will stirred, the Mesh of Reality around those markings seemed to settle beneath an invisible weight.
Sylas recognized the principle almost immediately, having seen a far simpler Hell Rune built around the same idea during his first visit to the Creation Tower.
Gros had taken that principle and turned it into a Path, using Runic weight to decide which portions of a structure the rest would be forced to accommodate. It suited the Sage Heaven well, especially with its long tradition of Decoders and Rune Masters who specialized in dismantling the work of others. Whether it was good enough to matter here was another question.
He likely had no idea that Sylas had deduced his path the moment he walked in.
