It only took Ren forty-eight additional hours to recover and free Lyzea from her crystal prison.
The physical execution of the spell wasn't the big hurdle anymore. Having successfully navigated the process with Sirius and Lykea, Ren's mastery over the biological mapping was absolute. The terrifying complexity of the magic had simply become a mechanical routine with the new extra knowledge.
Now, the genuine struggle was no longer how to execute the spell, but when he could afford to do it.
Managing a monumental, world-altering power became an agonizing logistical nightmare when that power was finite.
His mind was overflowing. There was so much he desperately needed to practice: the molding of raw crystal, stabilizing the volatile three-way beast fusion, and decoding the radical new cultivation techniques.
