Adam quickly adapted to different situations. Perhaps adaptation was the only thing in which humans surpassed monsters, and the more experience and dangerous battles a person had behind them, the faster it happened.
A few clashes were enough for Adam to understand what his threads were capable of now. Basically, everything was limited by his abilities, the length of the threads, and his imagination.
Sure, control was also an important component, but at the K4 Level, he had control incomparable to the K1 or K2 Levels.
Moreover, when he had to create something really complex, like the thread grid for defense, Lone Blaze could help him finish the last touch.
The Red Bloom realized too late that Adam was not an ordinary Phantom, that he was one of those who could defeat her.
If the First Star paid attention to a Phantom, it meant that he was a real threat.