Lin Mo tapped the glass surface of the central command console in the sanctuary pavilion.
The holographic interface flickered, shifting from regional logistics to the active feed of the Sect-Wide Talent Poaching and 100x Buyout Radar.
A three-dimensional topographical map of the western volcanic range materialized in the air, glowing with crimson heat-signatures.
Thirty miles to the west, the jagged, blackened peaks of Pill-Cauldron Mountain spewed towering columns of dark, sulfurous ash into the evening sky.
Deep within the mountain’s core, four thousand feet beneath the active volcanic caldera, the radar detected a dense cluster of brilliant lights.
Three hundred radiant emerald-and-gold merit halos lit up like a constellation of trapped stars.
The System’s audit readout unspooled across the terminal:
[RADAR TARGET ACQUIRED: THE SUBTERRANEAN FLAME-VEIN FURNACE CAVES!]
