"...and that's what happened gr-Patriarch."
"Huh... you're just full of surprises today," Patriarch Zhen Shi muttered as he observed the crystal red orb that Zhen Liu had brought to him.
A little after Zhen Liu had deposited the iced man, who he learned was nad Gregory, to his uncles for "an exchange of information", he made his way back to his grandfather's office chamber in order to give him the orb thing that started this chain of events, as well as update him about the Moka situation.
"You'll have a report from the uncles either by tonight or by tomorrow morning."
"Excellent...," Zhen Shi muttered in a mildly distracted tone, "Xiao Liu, you said you got this from that chanical beast's head?"
"Yeess? Why? Should I not have?"
"Well for starters this orb is actually an aether beast core. Belonging to a sixth rank Ignati beast no less, a Steel-Fanged Salamander."
"A Steel-F-wait, sixth?!," Zhen Liu exclaid in shock as his eyes went wide. From what he called, sixth ranked aether beasts could match Aether Emperors when it ca to raw might and aether power. If it wasn't obvious by this point, materials harvested from sixth rank aether beasts tended to be incredibly valuable and useful.
'Waitaminute...a sixth rank aether beast core should be valuable enough to set off my hand, why did-'
'Oh joy, more foreshadowing...,' Zhen Liu ntally griped, a light grimace on his face. Unaware of his grandson's plight, Zhen Shi ran his hands over the aether beast core and continued examining it.
"It's a pity it's not an Aquarii beast core, this would've greatly helped Zhen Hai...these markings..."
Zhen Shi placed the core onto his desk, and pulled out a blank roll of parchnt and a piece of charcoal. He then wrapped the bright red core in the parchnt until it was tight, then proceeded to rub the charcoal all over the parchnt. Zhen Liu squinted at the markings that were slowly appearing on the parchnt.
"Is that..."
*Clack*
Zhen Shi stopped rubbing charcoal once the parchnt looked completely black and unfurled the core from it. A distinctive pattern was left behind, one that Zhen Liu had so vague understanding about.
"An aether array? Wait no...two aether arrays on top of each other?"
"Yes," Zhen Shi nodded, "I'm sure your more familiar with this first array than myself, but I believe it's what gave that strange puppet you faced the ability to move and act the way you saw it act. I'll be sure to make another copy for you to make use of."
"Thank you patriarch," Zhen Liu said as he pald a fist in gratitude, "but what of the second?"
"The second is a bit more interesting...If I'm deciphering it correctly, it's a natural cultivation array! One ant to convert sources of heat into the user's aether. Excellent!"
Zhen Liu looked mildly shock for a brief mont before screwing his face back to normal. If this ant what he thought this ant...
'Voice in my head? Did you inscribe an array into my formula? Which is basically my soul?!'
'Why? I could've exploded! Literally!'
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