"....." Merina slowly raised her head, her eyes fixed on her teacher, watching him with utter and overwhelming bewilderment...
What he had just done appeared far too easy. He had completely manipulated Vanier—the strongest, most dominant presence in the entire class—without even standing up, all while casually seated with one leg crossed over the other like it was nothing.
Turning slime into mist? Controlling sixty dragons, each attacking independently? Booby-trapping someone's blood itself?!
All of those techniques required immense control and an incredibly advanced, combat-oriented understanding of the law's deeper uses. In her entire family's recorded history, only her great-grandfather—the legendary Founder—had ever achieved such a refined level of manipulation, and it was through that level of mastery that he had succeeded in founding a planetary empire of great power and prestige.
