Chapter 70: Testing Ground Infiltration
The thirty minutes before the challenge began was a blur of frantic activity for Ryan. He didn’t waste a second. While his team checked their gear and Emma studied the map of the Testing Ground, Ryan was in his own little world of high-tech crafting.
He stood in a quiet corner of the Core Chamber, a collection of strange and powerful items floating in the air around him. He had the Stormheart Crystal, still buzzing with the power of the Alpha Sky Titan.
He had several shiny components he had extracted from defeated Precursor robots. And he had his amazing Weaver’s Interface Gauntlet.
"Okay, let’s see if we can make you even better," he muttered to the gauntlet.
He used his Ultimate Infinite Extraction System, but not to break things down. He used it to carefully weave the items together. He pulled the pure lightning energy from the Stormheart Crystal, shaping it into thin, golden threads.
He took the "Targeting Matrix" from a sentinel’s brain and the "Energy Flow Regulator" from another robot’s chest. He carefully combined them, guided by the schematics he had learned from the Weaver. It was like being a super-advanced magical blacksmith.
His gauntlet glowed brighter and brighter, until it was almost too bright to look at. When the light faded, the gauntlet looked different.
It was sleeker, with fine golden lines running through the silver metal. A small, perfect crystal, a tiny piece of the Stormheart, was now embedded on the back of the hand.
[Item Upgrade Successful!]