"Silence," the head evaluator's voice cut through the laughter.

The elderly evaluator studied Ren with eyes that had seen decades of students trying to manipulate situations to escape consequences. Eyes that had watched countless desperate attempts to talk their way out of failure.

This wasn't the first time a student had made wild claims. But it was the first time one had done so while holding the fragments of something that shouldn't be breakable.

"Are you suggesting you can repair it? Here? Now?"

"Yes."

The word was simple, confident, carrying no trace of doubt or desperation.

"That's impossible," nobles shouted from the stands, but there was a note of uncertainty in their voices that hadn't been there before. Because if anyone could do the impossible, wouldn't it be the boy who'd already done it many times?

"Let him try," an unexpected voice resonated. All heads turned toward the source.

Klein Goldcrest stood in the noble student section, his arms crossed. His expression was neutral, but there was something in his eyes. Resolve.

"If he fails, then you can mark it as definitive failure. If he succeeds..." he made a significant pause, letting the implication sink in, "then clearly the problem wasn't his mana control."

The reasoning was solid. Airtight. The evaluators exchanged glances, silent communication passing between them.

"Very well," the evaluator decided finally, his voice carrying the weight of someone making a decision he wasn't entirely comfortable with. "You have... let's say ten minu..."

But Ren was no longer paying attention again.

He closed his eyes and activated his fusion.

His Wolverine and his Diamond Hydra, both Silver 3, finished fusing and duplicating in his system in an explosion of power that made several nobles instinctively shrink back in their seats.

The combination of both Silver 3 beasts generated a mana pressure that filled the entire auditorium.

Some of the weaker students gasped, their own mana systems recoiling from the overwhelming presence. Even some of the nobles, comfortable in their own power, felt the pressure like a physical weight on their chests.

His mantis couldn't fuse well with the other 2 beasts yet. The level difference was too great. Generally it only resulted in a subpar combination with little power increase and massive energy expenditure. The synchronization just wasn't there yet.

And although according to what Ren understood it was technically possible to force a triple fusion, he wasn't anywhere close to configuring the connections the 'would be needed' way.

Maybe three beasts simply couldn't fuse together appropriately yet. Maybe it required a level of mastery he hadn't reached. Or maybe the mantis needed to reach Silver rank first.

But two were enough here...

His perception expanded dramatically. He could feel every mana flow in the emblem's fragments, every coded pattern, every defect in the crystalline structure. It was like looking at a map written in a language only he could read, every detail laid bare before his enhanced senses.

And he saw the problem clearly.

The emblem's use had been extensive. The pattern's grooves were deep, worn down by years of repeated activations. Thousands of uses, each one wearing away microscopic amounts of material.

And his broken seed, filtering jade energy in the process, had been the final factor.

Jade energy flowed faster and more aggressively than common mana. The small "figure" of crystallized mana hadn't withstood the pressure.

It was like forcing water through a worn pipe at too high a pressure. Eventually, something had to give.

But if he simply injected an enormous amount of mana around the edges, he could force crystallization just like Zhao or Dragarion did. Refilling the grooves.

With his now advanced understanding… Now even restore the pattern to its original form.

No, better than the original.

The realization was stimulating. He could see it so clearly now, the solution laid out before him like a blueprint.

Ren began channeling mana toward the fragments.

Energy flowed from his fused system in controlled waves. Not a flood that would overwhelm, but precise streams that filled exact spaces.

It was possible because it wasn't like reconstructing it from scratch. He just had to "glue it" using the fragments as a template while his mana filled the empty spaces, solidified, crystallized in the exact form of the original pattern.

First he brought the parts together in their previous form, like a puzzle. Some of the evaluators considered this an innocent and futile attempt, a child playing with broken toys. But then they raised their eyebrows when the light intensified.

Jade light surrounded him and even more emanated from his hands with increasing brightness, enveloping the fragments in a glow that illuminated the entire platform. The fragments began to shine with great intensity while Ren's mana surrounded them, connected them, fused them back into a whole.

The auditorium watched in absolute silence.

This wasn't just mana manipulation. This was something else. Something that looked almost like the creation of crystals itself.

Jin Strahlfang had frozen, his mouth slightly open. The satisfaction that had been building in his chest evaporated, replaced by disbelief so complete it left him hollow.

Aldric had leaned forward, his hands gripping the back of the seat in front of him with enough force to crack it.

Min and Klein watched with expressions mixing astonishment with something like vicarious pride.

The evaluators had stopped deliberating, all their eyes fixed on Ren and the emblem reconstructing itself before them. Professional detachment forgotten in the face of witnessing genuine innovation.

The process took some time. Almost the ten minutes the evaluator had tried to allow. But nobody stopped him. Nobody dared interrupt what was clearly something extraordinary happening.

The enormous energy kept sending waves that made everyone present's system vibrate. And as the process continued, the jade glow intensified, becoming almost blinding.

The emblem was taking on a distinctive jade tone too, Ren's energy impregnating the crystalline structure. It wasn't the original clear crystal. It was something new. Something that had never existed before.

But the patterns were there. The coding was intact. The kingdom's "general password" was perfectly preserved.

Nine minutes.

The jade light began gradually diminishing. The fragments were no longer fragments but a unified whole. The energy around Ren began decreasing while the last connections solidified, like watching ice form in fast-forward.

Finally Ren's fusion dissipated with a sigh of released power. The jade glow dimmed until it became a soft luminescence.

And there, in Ren's palms, was the emblem.

Reconstructed. Complete. Perfect.

Except for the jade tone that now characterized it.

Ren took it with trembling hand, feeling the familiar weight but also something new. It was denser than before. More resistant. The worn grooves had been refilled, the structure reinforced.

It should be more resistant now. Capable of withstanding many more uses without degrading. Now even capable of handling his jade-corrupted mana easily without breaking.

He looked toward the evaluator, who observed him as if Ren had grown a second head.

"Does it work?" the evaluator asked with hoarse voice, barely above a whisper.

"There's only one way to find out," Ren responded.

He placed the jade emblem over the invisible letters and the prepared wax on the document. He channeled mana again, this time without fear of the filtered jade energy.

The emblem resonated. The patterns activated with a hum that was felt more than heard. And it left a perfect impression.

The kingdom's official pattern, clear and defined, appropriately sealed on the document. The invisible ink revealed itself, glowing briefly before settling into permanent visibility.

He lifted the emblem, revealing the complete seal.

Functional. Perfect. Improved.

The silence in the auditorium was dense.

Nobody could believe it.

Ren had taken a broken emblem, something supposedly impossible to repair without the tools and specialized knowledge of master artisans from a lost past, and had reconstructed it with pure mana in less than ten minutes.

Not only that, he had improved it.

Made it stronger. More durable. Changed its very nature while preserving its function.

The head evaluator approached the platform slowly, taking the jade emblem with trembling hands. He examined it closely, turning it under the light, feeling its weight, testing its structure with the careful touch of someone who understood a bit of what they were holding.

"Extraordinary," he finally murmured. "Completely extraordinary."

He looked at Ren directly in the eyes, and for a moment, they just stood there. Student and evaluator. Innovation and tradition. Future and past.

"Ten out of ten," he announced, his voice resonating in the silent auditorium. "Perfect score. And..." he paused, something like a smile touching his elderly lips, "a demonstration of technical skill that goes beyond anything I've witnessed in a life of evaluations."

The auditorium erupted.

Not in applause. In absolute chaos of overlapping voices, nobles shouting objections, students celebrating, evaluators heatedly deliberating among themselves.

"This is unprecedented!"

"The emblem is altered!"

"He changed its fundamental structure!"

"But it works!"

"It shouldn't be possible!"

"But he did it!"

The voices crashed together like waves, each one trying to be heard over the others. Some demanded the score be reconsidered. Others argued that innovation should be rewarded. Still others simply stared in stunned silence.

But in the middle of all that, Ren simply descended from the platform, holding the sealed document.

He had passed.

All ten exams.

With perfect score.

And in the process, he had demonstrated something nobody had anticipated. Something that changed the entire narrative that had been building against him.

That being "abnormal", having "excessive" power, wasn't a weakness.

It was exactly what made him, the innovation, unstoppable.

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