The altered soldiers here wore different configurations of the same green uniform, distinguishing marks on their collars that suggested rank differentiation rather than the uniform anonymity of the ground floor squad and the barrack district's occupants.
They moved between the floor's sections with purposeful direction, conducting work rather than standing guard, and Jake's Mana Sight found the command crystal network immediately—denser than the previous floor's hierarchy, with multiple nodes rather than a single central crystal, distributed through the floor's sections in a pattern that suggested redundancy had been built in deliberately.
Someone had learned from the floors above and adjusted the architecture accordingly.
Ankerita saw the same thing Jake's Mana Sight was showing him, reading it through her spatial talent rather than magical perception, and her jaw tightened fractionally.
"They've split the network," she said quietly.
"No single point of failure."
