The cycle of improvement

[Anastasia]

"I will endure," Gathgorian agrees, "Even if you are right and Creation is meaningless, than I will force meaning onto it. Be silent and perform your duties, Guardian."

Then it is before you. A twisted mass of vein-like lines around the divine seed, a tiny mote deep within a castle sized mass of those lines.

The duty the Incarnation of Balance gave me is meaningless as the wars on this accursed plane. As meaningless as your momentary lives. I welcome what comes to this Creation. Let rubbish be tossed into a bonfire and burnt away.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa inspects it to try and figure out what's wrong with it.

"Letting your personal frustrations affect your duties? Poor form. What did you do to it?"

[Anastasia]

The divine seeds allow apotheosis, without the risk of becoming something broken.

But what if you try and break such a thing?

[Iron Dragoon]

Any K check for this?

"Wait, let me get this straight. You got upset at your duty and the... world... and so you broke it because of it?"

[Anastasia]

Nothing meaningful, no.

"It lies. The work of an Incarnation will not be undone so trivially," Gathgorian declares, a gesture, a sweep of his sword out. "No, you lie and seek us to think that our entire ordeal is meaningless."

[Iron Dragoon]

"He's had enough time to study it... It's very possible he was able to do... something to it. I think we should have some of the higher authorities look it over before we try anything with it."

[Anastasia]

If you desire it, come and take it.

Gathgorian glances at you but a moment, "We will speak of it later," he decides, no hesitation as he heads towards the mass of vein-like lines.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Don't forget the agreement. We're allies in this. But be careful, it might be sabotaged, whatever he did to it."

[Anastasia]

Going forward as well?

[Iron Dragoon]

Yeah.

[Anastasia]

You advance. The veins do not move - you'll have to go around or through them somehow.

[Iron Dragoon]

What do you mean? Are they actively blocking the way, like moving? Otherwise, just.. fly.

[Anastasia]

They surround it, including from above.

[Iron Dragoon]

No path through at all?

[Anastasia]

None, you'll have to get in somehow.