Inside the chamber Arthur began experinting more boldly.
Instead of simply stopping the stones he began redirecting them.
Two collided mid air with a sharp crack.
Another bounced off the ground and flew upward again.
He guided one projectile in a slow circle around his body before sending it crashing into the wall.
A grin spread across his face.
The excitent returned.
That familiar rush.
Every ti he practiced sothing new it felt like this.
Like his mind was opening doors one after another.
"Let’s push it a bit further."
He raised both hands slightly.
The machine fired a heavier volley.
Six stones at once.
Arthur didn’t panic.
He simply let his senses expand.
Vector Sovereignty reached out like invisible hands gripping the motion itself.
The stones slowed.
Stopped.
Then moved.
Outside the room more explorers had gathered.
Two more bronze squads had wandered over after hearing the commotion.
"What’s happening?"
"Soone maxed the machine."
"Who?"
The older explorer answered quietly.
"That guy."
All eyes turned to the chamber.
Arthur barely noticed them.
His focus stayed on the skill.
Still... he could feel the audience growing.
The whispers.
The attention.
He muttered quietly under his breath.
"Don’t you people have training to do?"
Of course none of them heard him.
Arthur rolled his shoulders slightly.
"Well... if you’re going to watch..."
A smirk appeared again.
"Then watch properly."
His excitent grew.
The training had already gone beyond his original idea.
But he still hadn’t tested everything.
Arthur narrowed his eyes.
Ti to mix things.
Mana stirred around him again.
Thin threads of energy spread outward.
Intent Weave.
The familiar skill slipped into place easily.
The next volley of stones launched toward him.
But this ti they didn’t freeze imdiately.
Instead thin strands of mana caught them first.
Like invisible webs tightening in mid air.
The stones slowed.
Hung there.
Arthur’s other skill followed imdiately.
Vector Sovereignty.
The mont the threads halted their motion, his control took over.
The projectiles shifted position.
One rotated slowly in the air.
Another dropped to the ground before rising again.
Arthur laughed quietly.
"Now that’s interesting."
Outside the viewing room the crowd grew larger.
More explorers abandoned their own training.
One whispered.
"Those are two different skills."
Another replied.
"He’s using them together."
The older explorer rubbed his chin slowly.
His eyes never left the chamber.
"I’ve trained here for twelve years..."
He paused.
"...and I’ve never seen sothing like this."
Inside the room Arthur’s grin widened.
Now the training truly began.
Threads of mana caught the projectiles the mont they launched.
Then Vector Sovereignty guided them.
Every moving object inside his range beca sothing he could manipulate.
He sent stones skidding across the floor.
Then lifted them again.
He redirected others into the machine’s firing ports.
The chamber filled with motion.
And yet...
Arthur still stood in almost the sa place.
To the crowd watching, it felt unreal.
Soone whispered.
"He’s not even moving."
Another voice answered.
"He really doesn’t need to."
Arthur rolled his neck slightly.
The excitent was building again.
But he wasn’t finished.
There was one more thing he wanted to try.
His original idea.
The reason he ca here in the first place.
Arthur lifted his hand.
Mana gathered in his palm.
The air ward instantly.
A fla appeared.
At first it was small.
Then it grew.
The watchers outside leaned closer to the glass.
"Fire magic?"
The fla swelled into a large fireball above Arthur’s hand.
But it didn’t stop there.
Arthur focused.
The fireball split.
One beca two.
Two beca four.
Soon several smaller flas floated around him.
Arthur watched them carefully.
Control over fire wasn’t new to him.
But what he planned next...
That was the real experint.
His eyes sharpened.
The flas drifted slowly through the air.
Vector Sovereignty stirred again.
And Arthur prepared to test his new idea.
The mont the fire appeared above Arthur’s palm, the watchers outside the chamber reacted almost at once.
A few of them leaned even closer to the glass.
"Fire?"
A explorer frowned.
"What’s he doing with fire in there?"
The room he was using was ant for defense and reaction training. The machine launched projectiles ant to test movent and timing. Fire magic didn’t really fit that kind of training.
Yet Arthur stood calmly in the center with a burning spheres floating over his hand.
Several smaller flas hovered around him.
The whispers grew louder.
"That control..."
"Did you see that?"
"He split it without losing stability."
Even among bronze explorers, elental control like that wasn’t common.
Most people struggled to maintain one solid spell, especially in the middle of sothing chaotic like the projectile chamber.
Arthur wasn’t just maintaining it.
He was shaping it.
And doing it casually.
The older explorer who had warned Arthur earlier stared through the window with his arms folded.
His expression had grown serious now.
"That kid..."
Soone beside him spoke quietly.
"He’s not bronze."
Another shook his head.
"No way."
Yet the badge Arthur carried on him said exactly that.
Bronze rank.
F rank.
No class.
The thought alone made a few people uncomfortable.
Because what they were watching didn’t match that description at all.
One young explorer muttered under his breath.
"That rumor... about the C rank boss..."
Another scoffed automatically.
"No way soone like him could—"
But the words died halfway through.
Because the scene in front of them made the rumor feel less ridiculous.
Arthur stood there controlling flas, halting projectiles, bending motion itself.
For soone who supposedly had no class, he looked like a walking contradiction.
Soone whispered quietly.
"He’s a misfit."
Another corrected him.
"No."
His eyes stayed fixed on Arthur.
"He’s an anomaly."
Inside the chamber Arthur didn’t hear most of that.
His focus remained on the flas hovering around him.
The idea had been simple in his head.
Vector Sovereignty controlled motion.
Fire magic created sothing that could move.
So what would happen if he combined them?
Arthur narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Let’s see."
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