For the next two hours, Gray Porcelain was utterly dumbfounded.
Angel handled everything alone from start to finish—prospecting, mining, refining. While purifying the materials, he even occasionally used illusions to create formation anchors and inscribe intricate magic patterns.
At first, Gray Porcelain had considered whether he should help, but he later realized that stepping in would only hold Angel back.
At that moment, Gray Porcelain had the illusion that he had become "dead weight."
Moreover, given Angel's tentacle-monster-like ability to multitask, he even suspected that Angel would have had no trouble facing Nereid alone back then.
Using Phantom Limbs alone, he could have controlled multiple formation disks at once and forcibly withstood Nereid.
Interrupting spellcasting should have been as easy as turning his hand over for him.
In response to Gray Porcelain's self-doubt, Angel said, "I'm only this proficient because we went through Nereid together once."
"This place is practically identical to the dream version of Nereid. Even the positions of the ores are exactly the same. And since I already simulated it once in the dream version, if I still couldn't do it this conveniently, then I really ought to be ashamed of myself."
Gray Porcelain murmured, "You can become this proficient after going through it once?"
"Of course. You could do it too," Angel said matter-of-factly.
Gray Porcelain: "???" Then why did I feel like dead weight when I wanted to help just now?
Angel said, "Because our roles are different. As an alchemist, prospecting, surveying ores, tempering... these are all fundamental skills for me. Isn't it normal for me to be a little faster when I already have that foundation?"
"If I weren't here today, think about it carefully. Since you already went through the dream version, when you brought that experience into the real version of