Lucian rubbed his nose.
His gaze swept over the upper-right corner. The slowly advancing progress bar finally filled its last sliver.
[Copy progress: 100%] [Magnetic Manipulation LV4, locked in]
Lucian withdrew his right hand from Robert's forehead, stood up, and stopped beside Andre.
He reached out and pressed his fingers against the young man's brow.
A faint sensation of electric current flowed back up his fingertips. Compared with his father's storm-like, raging magnetic field, the son's ability seemed far too weak.
Five minutes. The loop was complete.
Two magnetic forces of the same origin but vastly different magnitudes collided violently inside him, only to be forcibly kneaded together by the system.
[Magnetic Manipulation LV4 (Fusion Enhancement)]
Lucian slowly clenched his right fist. Invisible magnetic ripples burst outward with him at their center.
The rebar inside the walls, the precarious metal ceiling panels overhead, the ventilation ducts deep beneath the floor. The positions, shapes, and materials of every piece of metal within a hundred meters outlined an extraordinarily precise three-dimensional star chart in his mind.
He raised his hand, spreading his fingers slightly.
Inside a hundred-pound chunk of concrete wedged in a corner, several broken lengths of rebar let out piercing screeches as they twisted.
"Break."
The rubble exploded. Six lengths of rebar, each as thick as an adult's arm, shot into the air like venomous snakes responding to a command.
He curled his fingers.
The rebar twisted together in midair, compressing with showers of sparks. In the blink of an eye, all six lengths had been forcibly compressed into an extremely dense, solid iron ball the size of a fist.
Disperse.
The solid iron ball disintegrated in midair into countless grains of iron sand barely visible to the naked eye, hovering silently around Lucian like black