Alex put away the pillbug for a week and cultivated before getting back to it. He wanted to check what would happen if he left the pillbug alone for a while. Would it retain the information about the aura it had produced before, or would it completely forget it?
That was the very first test he wanted to do. If the little critter couldn't remember the aura even after just a week, then there was no way it could be considered a Grade 10 insect.
So, when the pillbug did successfully recreate the Metal aura, Alex wasn't surprised in the slightest.
The information he received during his purchase of the insects said as much, but he had to test it anyway. There was no way he could place blind faith in information that had never been successfully replicated by anyone in hundreds of thousands of years.
After completing the first test, Alex moved on to the next one. He had many of them planned, so he got right to it.
