The Man’s Decree – Chapter 5995

As expected, an independent warning array ringed the courtyard, finer than the outer barrier. Linked to key nodes inside, it would not only scream an alarm but likely strike back or lock down any intruder.

Jared held his breath, eyes brushing over faint sigils scorched into the threshold stones and the low wall. It was a layered Groundbinding Spirit Net Array, sensing, snaring, and stabbing in one spiteful weave.

The heart of it had to be buried beneath the courtyard's center. Force it or crack it loud, and Miles would hear, the whole quarter might wake.

So, Jared let the depth of his array, craft unfold again. He lifted his right hand, index finger forward; at the tip, a fleck of grey chaos gathered, tiny enough to hide in dust.

He aimed a fingertip at open air. Gray light sharpened into threads finer than hair and sank, without a sound, into the earth‘s key runes.