Selthia stood before the tower.
And she was, she had to admit, genuinely impressed.
She hadn't anticipated this much genius from the handsome boy... She knew Ren possessed raw, explosive talent, she had measured his growth up close, conversed with him inside the net, and felt the absolute precision of his ethereal control firsthand.
But bending Metal, an elemental affinity that virtually no one on the planet could perceive or manipulate today, and using it to engineer an architectural monstrosity of this caliber? A dual-layered fortress featuring an almost-adamantium chassis housing a Diamond-rank wooden core, directly plugged into a primordial planetary mana vein to absorb steadily without exploding, that was an entirely different tier of engineering.
The boy's understanding had evolved significantly faster than the crystal's predictive models had calculated. And the crystal had been calculating variables for a very long time.
Even so, she wasn't worried about the tower.
