The New Training Academy's graduation ceremony was over.
First place among the final ten students went to neither Bai Mo nor Feng Qiuhuang, but to a student Nameless had never paid any attention to.
After the ceremony, Nameless said goodbye to Liu Sishan and hurried home. There, he ran a series of interesting tests on his ability.
He discovered that the Myriad Laws Shell had some strange restrictions.
They were strange because they seemed utterly arbitrary, with no pattern he could discern. He could turn some things directly into shells, while others refused to become shells no matter how much Mental Strength he had.
Take peanut kernels, for example. Of two kernels he had taken from the same shell, he could turn one into a shell but not the other.
It gave him quite a headache.
His ability was still powerful, but this restriction meant it sometimes worked and sometimes did not.
"What on earth is going on?"
Nameless sat on his bed, looking at the assortment of objects spread across the covers, his head full of ten thousand questions.
He wanted to ask those things what was going on with them...
Wait.
He actually could ask.
He had the Dragon Exoshell come over, then used Communion with All Things to ask the kernel he could not turn into a shell, "Peanut kernel, why can't you be made into a shell?"
"Why? You've got the nerve to ask why? You have no sense of honor!" the kernel snapped angrily.
Nameless blinked. "How have I shown no sense of honor? If you know something, you need to explain it clearly."
"My brother has already gone off to war! Why do you want to send me too? You've gone too far! Is the Peanut Clan supposed to die out?" the kernel raged.