Chapter 359
Matt looked at the guild bustling beneath him and a part of him wished he could delay their trip to the Sects just by a few years. With the release of the aura rifts, Titan’s Torch had most of the pressure removed from their shoulders now that they weren’t in a rush to deliver on their signature innovation before the self imposed deadline. Not that they were slowing down now that the decade had passed. In fact, the various teams were now starting their own testing to explore the aspects of aperology that interested them.
Which was exactly why Matt wanted to stay for just a few years longer.
The aperology department was finally starting to look into other aspects of the field and Matt wanted to help. Aura was fun, it had been and would continue to be an intriguing puzzle, but they had cleared the lowest hanging fruit off that particular tree. Now, there was a forest of other trees laden with fruit.
Even as he watched, there were two teams working on trying to isolate variables seen in rifts by carefully tweaking the mana types and amounts they fed to a rift both during and after formation.
Another interesting trend were the three teams trying to create more utility rifts. Rifts rich in metal, harvestable trees, or even water, oddly enough.
Metal, he could understand. Metal was the backbone of all permanent tech, and Tiered metal was all the more valuable for its increased potency as it Tiered up. Even on Lilly, they happily collected the metal weapons rifts produced and either melted them down or sold them to enchanters. A single low Tier rift like the goblin rift might not produce a lot of material, but it was a steady supply that added up quickly when pooled together.
Trees were an odder demand, but he could see the desire to not cut down local forests on more populated worlds. The amount of labor to pull full trees out of a rift didn’t seem proportional to the cost, but he could see the value.
But water?
Matt hadn’t understood why anyone would need or want a rift to produce a source of water.