Dimensional Descent

In that moment, as though a ball had dropped, the movement of Jac and Leonel's hands became blinding. Anyone who might have thought that their skill would be too far apart immediately felt as though a bucket of cold water had been dropped over their heads. In fact, none of them were fools and many of them had eyes sharp enough to see through to the truth.

Leonel's hand motion was slower than Jac's, but his finger speed and dexterity was more than just a single level beyond.

By this point, Leonel had long since moved on from the beginner level techniques he used when he first started as a Force Crafter. His every action carried an air of sophistication and purpose he hadn't had before.

Years of simulations layered themselves in his every action, creating the image of an expert amongst experts.

Leonel's fingers rapidly oscillated, Little Tolly following the rhythm of his digits. The Polished Glass in his hands vibrated, its impurities being brought to the surface to be systematically cut off one after another.

When Leonel first began, he didn't have the skill to do this. As such, he could only use Little Tolly like a glorified Flame Spirit, using the little guy's ability to agitate the chemical structure of Ores to raise its temperature.

It was a simple concept. Heat actually reflected itself in the activity of atoms. By using this principle, Leonel was able to heat his Ores to incredibly precise levels, making use of sometimes even one or two degree differences in melting point to separate out impurities.

Though this level of control over heat was far beyond what a Flame Spirit wielder could hope to match, it was still considered a crude technique to Leonel's father. This alone was able to make the value of a Metal Spirit clear.

A Flame Spirit Wielder would only be able to gradually heat an entire Ore. Little Tolly, however, as long as the Ore was within a reasonable size – a size that was steadily growing as the little guy continued to evolve under Leonel's constant nurturing – could cause the same change to occur through the Ore simultaneously.

able to control the temperature of an entire Ore to incredibly precise levels… Well, it didn't need to be explain any more

many downfalls to the use of

the heating and cooling of an Ore would inevitably cause changes. One of the most useful techniques in changing the strength and structure of a chemical bond is the clever

heating would be to remove impurities, this wouldn't stop the Ore from being

subtle changes wouldn't be a big deal to a beginner. However, to an expert,

was only one for those who

[Centrifugal Oscillation] and was considered to be a technique only Silver Crafters could use. But at

first used Little Tolly to separate the several Ores of

picked them up. For a moment, it would seem to hang in the air,

could also cause a transfer of heat. However,

and

never have in its natural state, almost making it like metallic liquid. The result was a fluid far thicker than oil, even faintly beyond the

fluid state resulted in

ability to retain heat plummeted and its

changes. As long as Leonel locked onto a particular frequency, he would use a combination of vibration

part about this technique is that it put all Ores in an inert state. Even the usually violent

Polished Glass realized how casually Leonel had taken his previous time with them. He had most