Inside the tent, Jake was already hard at work. His Cosmic Chitin Scale ability, being considered a bloodline power, was also restricted by the Aetheric laws of Twyluxia. Given time, he would be able to produce as much metal as he wanted with some effort, but he refused to take such a risk in case his enemies were waiting for him to reveal a weakness.
Fortunately, his beginnings in Lumyst cultivation had opened up a wide range of new options. A few hours was little time for experimentation, but with his intellect, it was enough for preliminary inferences. Relatively speaking, a hasty deduction on his part was like completing a decade-long thesis for an Earth scientist, so he could absolutely trust it.
The first rule he had deduced about Lumyst: It was better to have a core specific to each type of Lumyst than to have a single type of Lumyst incorporating all his attributes. The latter resulted in a potent cocktail that provided maximum power but was too hard to control.
