Grey collapsed to his back, taking deep breaths.
What had he just done?
Honestly, he had thought it would be simple. Just replace the eye portion of a blueprint with Esmeralda's. But the problems ran far deeper than that.
The Proving Class materials couldn't withstand the might of Esmeralda's eye, so they kept shattering apart and wasting the energy built within.
But when Grey tried to use stronger materials, he found that he couldn't manipulate them at all. It was so easy for him to form Proving Class materials that he had just assumed it would be as easy all the way up. But those materials didn't even respond to him on the Cyber Mat. It was like they were inert.
So Grey went back to using Proving Class materials, trying to see if there was a method he could use to improve the blueprints enough that he would be able to complete his idea.
Nothing worked.
