Capítulo 638: Chapter 638 – Taming the Fifth Year – Broken Seal – 2
“Silence,” the head evaluator’s voice cut through the laughter.
The elderly evaluator studied Ren with eyes that had seen decades of students trying to manipulate situations to escape consequences. Eyes that had watched countless desperate attempts to talk their way out of failure.
This wasn’t the first time a student had made wild claims. But it was the first time one had done so while holding the fragments of something that shouldn’t be breakable.
“Are you suggesting you can repair it? Here? Now?”
“Yes.”
The word was simple, confident, carrying no trace of doubt or desperation.
“That’s impossible,” nobles shouted from the stands, but there was a note of uncertainty in their voices that hadn’t been there before. Because if anyone could do the impossible, wouldn’t it be the boy who’d already done it many times?
“Let him try,” an unexpected voice resonated. All heads turned toward the source.
Klein Goldcrest stood in the noble student section, his arms crossed. His expression was neutral, but there was something in his eyes. Resolve.
“If he fails, then you can mark it as definitive failure. If he succeeds…” he made a significant pause, letting the implication sink in, “then clearly the problem wasn’t his mana control.”
The reasoning was solid. Airtight. The evaluators exchanged glances, silent communication passing between them.
“Very well,” the evaluator decided finally, his voice carrying the weight of someone making a decision he wasn’t entirely comfortable with. “You have… let’s say ten minu…”
But Ren was no longer paying attention again.
He closed his eyes and activated his fusion.
His Wolverine and his Diamond Hydra, both Silver 3, finished fusing and duplicating in his system in an explosion of power that made several nobles instinctively shrink back in their seats.
The combination of both Silver 3 beasts generated a mana pressure that filled the entire auditorium.
Some of the weaker students gasped, their own mana systems recoiling from the overwhelming presence. Even some of the nobles, comfortable in their own power, felt the pressure like a physical weight on their chests.
His mantis couldn’t fuse well with the other 2 beasts yet. The level difference was too great. Generally it only resulted in a subpar combination with little power increase and massive energy expenditure. The synchronization just wasn’t there yet.
And although according to what Ren understood it was technically possible to force a triple fusion, he wasn’t anywhere close to configuring the connections the ‘would be needed’ way.
Maybe three beasts simply couldn’t fuse together appropriately yet. Maybe it required a level of mastery he hadn’t reached. Or maybe the mantis needed to reach Silver rank first.
But two were enough here…
His perception expanded dramatically. He could feel every mana flow in the emblem’s fragments, every coded pattern, every defect in the crystalline structure. It was like looking at a map written in a language only he could read, every detail laid bare before his enhanced senses.
And he saw the problem clearly.
The emblem’s use had been extensive. The pattern’s grooves were deep, worn down by years of repeated activations. Thousands of uses, each one wearing away microscopic amounts of material.
And his broken seed, filtering jade energy in the process, had been the final factor.
Jade energy flowed faster and more aggressively than common mana. The small “figure” of crystallized mana hadn’t withstood the pressure.
It was like forcing water through a worn pipe at too high a pressure. Eventually, something had to give.
But if he simply injected an enormous amount of mana around the edges, he could force crystallization just like Zhao or Dragarion did. Refilling the grooves.
With his now advanced understanding… Now even restore the pattern to its original form.
No, better than the original.
The realization was stimulating. He could see it so clearly now, the solution laid out before him like a blueprint.
Ren began channeling mana toward the fragments.
Energy flowed from his fused system in controlled waves. Not a flood that would overwhelm, but precise streams that filled exact spaces.
It was possible because it wasn’t like reconstructing it from scratch. He just had to “glue it” using the fragments as a template while his mana filled the empty spaces, solidified, crystallized in the exact form of the original pattern.
First he brought the parts together in their previous form, like a puzzle. Some of the evaluators considered this an innocent and futile attempt, a child playing with broken toys. But then they raised their eyebrows when the light intensified.
Jade light surrounded him and even more emanated from his hands with increasing brightness, enveloping the fragments in a glow that illuminated the entire platform. The fragments began to shine with great intensity while Ren’s mana surrounded them, connected them, fused them back into a whole.
The auditorium watched in absolute silence.
This wasn’t just mana manipulation. This was something else. Something that looked almost like the creation of crystals itself.
Jin Strahlfang had frozen, his mouth slightly open. The satisfaction that had been building in his chest evaporated, replaced by disbelief so complete it left him hollow.
Aldric had leaned forward, his hands gripping the back of the seat in front of him with enough force to crack it.
Min and Klein watched with expressions mixing astonishment with something like vicarious pride.
The evaluators had stopped deliberating, all their eyes fixed on Ren and the emblem reconstructing itself before them. Professional detachment forgotten in the face of witnessing genuine innovation.
The process took some time. Almost the ten minutes the evaluator had tried to allow. But nobody stopped him. Nobody dared interrupt what was clearly something extraordinary happening.
The enormous energy kept sending waves that made everyone present’s system vibrate. And as the process continued, the jade glow intensified, becoming almost blinding.
The emblem was taking on a distinctive jade tone too, Ren’s energy impregnating the crystalline structure. It wasn’t the original clear crystal. It was something new. Something that had never existed before.
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