(7 days later, Moltherak's Island, Leo's POV)
Over the next seven days, Leo made rapid progress in his mastery over space tunnelling, as not only did he refine the precision of his entry angles and strengthen the density of his aura dagger, he also learned to calculate and lock the ending vector with growing confidence, allowing him to appear within meters of where he intended rather than drifting into the vastness of the Stilled World like a lost shadow.
Day after day, leap after leap, he carved through the fourth dimension with anxious focus, as the slopes he created became cleaner, the tunnels he opened stretched farther, and the fear that once seized his chest slowly dissolved into a careful, disciplined excitement that only came when a warrior began to trust his own instincts.
By the fifth day, he was opening tunnels nearly ten thousand kilometers long.
By the sixth, he could land himself on specific reefs around the Stilled World's broken ocean.
