Any mana crystal was accumulated energy that had transitioned into behaving as a solid, and affected the surrounding mana system by fusing with the tissue as well.
That was all it was.
And what became solid after being fluid, given the right conditions of density and frequency, could, in theory, have those conditions reversed. If someone knew precisely which conditions to modify and in which order.
In theory.
The practical side was where the actual problems lived.
The first order of work was analyzing whether the solidification process caused damage to the transformed tissue, and whether reversing it would cause additional damage. Two different questions, and no one knew if the answer to the second one didn't follow automatically from the answer to the first.
