The mana that tamers manipulated.
The physical reality of beasts and their existence.
Laws governing how elements interacted.
All of it depended on the Crystal functioning appropriately in ways most people didn’t even know existed.
It wasn’t a metaphor. It wasn’t religion or philosophy or ancient belief systems preserved through tradition.
It was a world wide infrastructure.
Like water pipes beneath a city, invisible to residents going about their daily lives but absolutely essential to everything functioning. Remove the pipes and the city dies within days. Most residents never think about the pipes, never see them and never consider their existence until something goes wrong.
The Crystal was the pipes, the mana was the water and tamers were, at best, people who’d learned to adjust individual valves without understanding the larger network.
It was a system much more complex and powerful than most tamers understood or needed to understand to operate effectively within their limitations.
Gold-rank tamers could manipulate elements with extraordinary skill and never need to think about what made those elements exist in the first place.
But Orion had seen enough of what the corrupted Brain revealed to recognize that the Crystal was the underlying infrastructure of the runes, the fundamental code of reality expressed in physical form that could be manipulated if you knew how to access it appropriately.
The runes weren’t just to make magical artifacts. They were interfaces, access points to a system.
And everything Orion had been building toward, was aimed at becoming someone who could actually operate that system consciously rather than stumbling through it blind.
’That’s why that boy Patinder who managed to repair a damaged crystal with his own hands is so dangerous and must be...’
"So then what do we do about Julius investigating that ’Brain’ in the ruins and about Selphira and the group that Arturo is sending to the location?" Seiya interrupted, pulling Orion from thoughts that were about to become dark in ways his nephew didn’t need to witness yet.
The thoughts darkened indeed... Orion caught it, examined it, set it aside.
Not yet. That problem would be addressed when the time was appropriate. Rushing conclusions on matters like that had destroyed better plans than his.
But the implication was clear... A child who could repair the fundamental infrastructure of reality with his bare hands wasn’t just a talented tamer.
He was something else entirely. Something that may be as dangerous as corruption or worse.
Orion came back to the Seiya’s query...
It was a practical question requiring immediate answer considering that reports indicated Selphira had already begun preparations for the expedition toward this Goldcrest territory where Victor was being maintained as hostage.
Orion took a moment to organize an explanation that would clarify the situation in a way Seiya understood why there was no need for excessive worry about intervention from forces that were effectively nonexistent.
"The city’s situation makes an aggressive response limited in ways that favor our position," he began with the tone of an instructor explaining military logistics to a student. "They can’t come with anything that could be called an army or even a significant fraction of their available forces."


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