Huge surprise, Min shouldn't be able to control ice yet, unless…
'A situational amplification? But he'd need…'
Ren's smile faded as he recalculated rapidly and realized his error.
He'd accounted for the Amphibian's reserves. Had calculated the attrition rate.
But he'd assumed that digestion would give small amounts of mana and take much longer to finish. Had failed to account for Min's ability to metabolize absorbed biomass faster than baseline because of his exceptional double water control allowing him to optimize the internal chemical processes.
An oversight... Small.
But critical.
Even if it wasn't ice in the sense that Ren manifested it… the perfect crystallization that achieved a structure rivaling diamond in hardness.
It was a good approximation using similar principles. Even if falling short of the perfection that complete mastery of the element achieved. It was still maybe 60-70% as effective as genuine ice manipulation at comparable mana cost.
