Ronan showed no pleasure at Snake Tongue's praise. He continued rolling the fine gauze between his fingers and replied evenly, "It counts as a success, but the Soul Core design is still lacking."
What were they talking about?
Yin Le felt completely lost. On the cultivation side of things, she and Ronan truly lacked Tacit Understanding, and she could more or less accept that fact. But being so utterly shut out of the little circle between Ronan and Snake Tongue like this felt awful.
Taking a deep breath, Yin Le steadied her slightly shaken mindset and tried the most straightforward way of joining in. "What Mister just did was...?"
"Testing the interference between the constructed 'Gear Set' and the outside world."
Ronan chose Snake Tongue's "description," though its source had ultimately come from himself. Seeing Yin Le's bewildered expression, he offered a few more explanations. "I wanted to achieve two effects—no, three effects. First, the newly constructed 'Gear Set' could fit seamlessly into the world's 'Great Gear Set.' That has basically been achieved..."
Ronan reached out and made a couple of motions before him, encountering no resistance whatsoever. Then he gestured for Yin Le to try. Dazed, she extended her hand and, meeting no obstruction, touched Ronan's chest.
She instinctively murmured, "Sorry," and drew back her arm. Yet halfway through, she bumped into something. Her arm was firmly locked in place by some tough solid object, unable to move.
At that moment, Yin Le noticed a slight refraction in the way light traveled through the surrounding air. Blurred outlines of an object also appeared around her arm.
"An Exoskeleton? Is this invisibility... no, a void interlayer!" Yin Le immediately thought of the "Crystal Ball" in her handbag, along with the Devil Fish swimming freely inside it.
"More or less."
The