This was a pale golden crystalline sphere in the shape of a regular icosahedron. Its outer layer was a relatively light, translucent crystal, while the deeper one went, the more its core took on the texture of amber.
When Ian had first seen this brain-marrow crystal, Scott's eyes had been the first thing that came to mind—the Iron Folk squad captain's eyes were roughly this same amber-yellow color, though obviously not nearly as large as the crystal.
Now, before the campfire, Ian held up the enormous crystal and considered how he should process it to make it easier to carry.
The campfire lit by the Brain-Eating Worm proved that there were plants around the hall, and that they were not too different from those on the surface. The flames burned fairly steadily, and there was little smoke.
For an alchemy master, a fire like this would have been enough to process the vast majority of materials.
Ian had not reached that level yet. He needed the aid of specialized instruments.
But while he was no alchemy master and had no instruments—
He had the Silver Chip and the Ancient Dragon Core!
At that moment, Ian could sense that the Ancient Dragon Core behind his heart was gradually "activating" as it came into close contact with the brain-marrow crystal in a stable environment.
The core Hilliard had left behind was a Fifth Energy Level, "Authority-class" sublimation organ.
It was also the highest-level, highest-quality sublimation organ Ian had seen to date.
With Ian's current quantity of Origin Matter, let alone using the core, even activating it was difficult.
The only way to make use of it was as a warehouse for storing Origin Matter.
Over the past four years, the youth had continually transferred the excess Origin Matter he refined into the