The second chamber in Yano had been converted into an improvised research center.
Ren found himself surrounded by a carefully selected team: high-value tamers for their knowledge and analysis beast skills, plus some he had allowed to enter with his relative authority.
The space hummed with urgent activity as tamers worked to understand their enemy's capabilities.
Wei worked intensely with one of the chamber's minor artifacts, a frequency crystal that could detect certain types of corruption within a tamer.
His obsession with technical details finally found practical purpose in analyzing Han's corrupt mana flow. The device, ancient but functional, responded to Wei's careful adjustments with precise readings. Yet…
"The readings are fluctuating erratically," Wei murmured, examining the young man. "As if something is interfering with the normal patterns."
