The dimensional fold deposited Elias directly into the faculty residential area of the Epochal Ascendance Academy. He'd bypassed the academy's standard entry protocols—his understanding of spatial law made their protective formations trivial to navigate without triggering alarms.
The private quarters Kaelen and Sarah shared was modest by Sovereign standards—a comfortable home that existed partially outside normal space-time, its interior larger than the exterior suggested. Tasteful. Practical. Very much Kaelen's aesthetic.
Elias knocked.
The door opened instantly. Kaelen must have sensed his arrival.
She stood in the doorway, and for a moment, they just looked at each other.
Three years. Not long by Infinity Realm standards—barely a blink for cultivators who measured their lives in millennia. But long enough that seeing each other again carried weight.
