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nThe images were recorded by him before he came back.

nBloody Chariot didn't take out the piece of the crystal and the liquid he collected immediately. He just wanted to see if any of the elders here have any knowledge about this. He just wanted to test them a bit.

nHowever, apart from surprise and curiosity, nothing could be seen in their faces.

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"It seems like you cannot relate this to anything that you already know of.

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"No sir, even though we have come across several crystalline minerals before, this one appears different. Just from a glance through the screen, I feel like this is different from the rest.

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"How so? They look exactly like the regular crystals. Why do you think so?

" Bloody Chariot asked as he looked at the elder that spoke. It is one of the youngest elders that was involved in the project. He is an expert artisan and he is now part of the team that dismantled the humanoid puppet.

nEven though the senior elders didn't let him handle it directly because of their credit hogging Olympian mindset, his ideas were still applied.

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"Can you zoom it a bit?

" The young man asked.

nHe stepped forward from his seat and looked at the screen intently.

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"Just as I thought.

" He muttered and looked at Bloody Chariot.

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"The crystal's structure is most likely different from regular crystalline structures. If you observe it closely, you can see that the grain structure is different. Just from the granular pattern on its surface, I can say that the internal of this crystal might not be completely solid.

nMaybe it is semi-solid?

nOr it might even be a compound material. The white structure could be the outer part and there might be a different internal part?

nThese are just my guesses, but I feel like there is a huge possibility of it being true.

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nThe young man spoke and his frown deepened.

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"You can assume all of that just from the surface? I don't see anything wrong with its patterns though. I don't even see any patterns at all. It is smooth like any other crystal structure.

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nOne of the older elders said it directly.

nThe young man looked at him and said.

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"True, we cannot observe it directly on the surface of the crystal. But if you take a closer look at the image, you can see a small spot on the ground where the crystal is projecting some bright light.

nThat patch of the surface is also very smooth. The light patch is showing off the crystalline structure a bit. Even if the patterns are minute for us to see from here or even based on touch, if it is really insignificant, it wouldn't be visible to us.

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nBloody Chariot closed his eyes and let his conscious go into the Storage he had. He is observing the surface of the crystal.

nThe explanation of the young man almost sounded like nonsense, without any logic.

nBloody Chariot just believed one thing. In their world, it makes sense. That must be it.

nThe discussion began and the elders participated one by one. After some time, Bloody Chariot suddenly stopped the discussion.

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"Elder Yavin, Elder Grajo and Elder Mavi.

nYou three stay here. The rest of you can leave.

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nElder Yavin is the younger elder who spoke first. Elder Grajo is one of the senior elders who is the deputy in-charge of the artisan department. Elder Mavi is an energy and formation expert, the only lady that stayed behind.

nAfter discussion, Bloody Chariot compared their thoughts with the material he had in the storage and believed these three are the best candidates to analyze this place further. Then he took out the crystal and the liquid that was collected out.

nEven though the crystal was in the spatial storage where this material should have been in a suspended state, it still dripped.

nBloody Chariot has to condense his energy around the liquid like a bubble made out of energy to bring it out. The crystal piece landed on the table and he told the three.

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"This is the piece of the crystal that I brought from there. When I broke a crystal, that crystal bush started bleeding this liquid. It is also coming from the broken piece.

nIn terms of luster and appearance, the crystal didn't actually change. But it dripped out this liquid for hours now.

nAnalyze both of these things.

nYou have three hours. If you provide me with results, I will consider bringing you guys there along with me, when we go with the formation team that will build the spatial formation.

nHowever, I need some deeper analysis on the nature of that energy. We need to make sure that the spatial formation created there will stably stay there.

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nWith that, Bloody Chariot left the room.

nThe three elders were excited beyond belief. They couldn't hold themselves back and started studying the materials.

nIn that excitement the three hours went past like three minutes.

nThey didn't have enough. Their research brains were tickled to the extreme and they are now very much troubled to even let this go.

nThey did get some answers and some basic understanding.

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"Sir, this crystal. It is hard to believe that it is natural. But the way it was shown in that image, it could only be natural to grow like that.

nThe granular patterns on it surface did indicate that it is their natural growth. It propagated like how a metallic ore. I have seen this behavior in some ores that have very high metal elemental energy. They just protrude out of earth like this.

nBut the crystalline appearance and the structure on the other hand... it doesn't appear normal either.

nThe molecular structure is not the same as regular crystals. It is not compact enough. It rather feels like some crude, hard rock type structure.

nCrystal structures tend of be symmetrical and uniform. But the molecules of this crystal is anything but uniform. There is not a single sign of symmetry. This is weird.

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nYavin spoke until he is almost out of breath.

nBloody Chariot can feel his enthusiasm.

nThe older man Grajo also shared the same views as Yavin. Meanwhile Mavi's major focus was on the liquid that dripped from the crystal.

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"This liquid is highly reactive and the energy is definitely elemental. However, I couldn't identify which element it is. That is very very weird.

nI have studied various variant energies. Like the death and shadow energy of the element, the sand energy and even the crystal energy of the earth element, etc.

nHowever, I have never come across this. This energy is far from the crystal energy that I understood. But this is very reactive. Its nature is aggressive like that of fire or lightning, but at the same time,

nthat aggression has some weird stability, like that of earth element or more precisely the stone element which is a variant of earth element.

nHowever, it is very reactive and counter regular elements. Particularly, water element. It has high resistance against it. Also, regular spiritual energy shows instant results as it doesn't have that extra elemental benefit to resist the attack of this.

nThe best part is, the liquid doesn't seem to be pure energy substance. It is actually a physical substance, which we can use for making something. Maybe not directly, but it can be used for alloys and such.

nThe sample size is very small for me to examine it further.

" Bloody Chariot nodded and smiled.

nThe three people reached his expectations and he decided to take them. He called the team in charge of the space gates so that they will prepare the experts to go to that planet again. Since they don't exactly know the name of that place, they decided to called it as Crystal nest for now.

nAfter some preparations, Bloody Chariot moved with thirteen people in tow.

nThe three elders and the rest are the team responsible for building the space gate.

nWhen they arrived at the place, the whole team was stunned by the sight. Even the three elders were no exception. Even though they saw the crystal and the liquid along with various images of this area, they are still shocked when they saw it in person.

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"You guys examine, while the formation team finds a proper spot to begin setting up the formation. Meanwhile, I will look around on my own.

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nBloody Chariot watched as everyone dispersed. Then he thought of something and looked at the team leader of the formation team. That man is another deputy of the formation department. A space element user and a complete expert in formations.

nBloody Chariot went to him and said.

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"I need you to give your opinion on something. Come with me.

nThe Elder was surprised, but he went along anyway.

nSoon, both of them are in front of one of the domes.

nThey are a safe distance away. Bloody Chariot prompted the elder to test the weird behavior of the formation.

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