The silence was heavy.
It didn't look like Sylas had done anything impressive. And yet, they felt shell shocked.
The solution should have been obvious to them all. They were all masters in their own right to even be able to afford to enter this city in the first place. So, they could obviously tell that Sylas was manipulating the Runes of the chain.
It was somewhat difficult, and it was impressive how smoothly he had been able to do it. But anyone on the Breath Master list would be capable of such a thing.
The chains weren't like the hidden Runes in the Secret Realm, they were similar to the beasts. Although they were constructed of Runes, they were designed to be manipulated as well. If all the Runes in the Secret Realm were locked down like the foundational ones were, then no one would be able to pass them at all.
However, in the midst of battle, to figure this out and then reverse the situation so easily…
