The temple in Peru had been constructed on a location where the barrier was closest to the surface. Unlike the fortress in Russia, which had been built as a defensive structure, the temple had been constructed as a place of meditation and study. Its architecture was designed to facilitate communion with the higher dimensions, to allow cultivators to approach the barrier without crossing it.
Sarah stood at the temple's center, her physical form surrounded by defensive barriers of white cultivation energy. Around her, the cultivators that the Syndicate had positioned at this barrier point were unleashing everything they had against the seal.
They were eight in total. Not all of them were as powerful as Marcus, but they were no ordinary cultivators. Each of them had been selected specifical
