So Ren's iron-clad alibi was the manual, back-breaking labor of tower installation...
But the reality was vastly different.
In practice, Ren actually finished constructing the massive defensive structures in a microscopic fraction of the time he officially reported.
Before his descent into the ruins, he had meticulously faked his own limitations when installing his previously made runes.
But those being hard to make and taking time had been true...
He had spent agonizing hours carefully carving the mana-absorption runes by hand, utilizing a disgusting, tedious solvent made from acidic Golden rank beasts blood just to make the runes.
Now? He executed the entire process in a matter of minutes.
Utilizing his newly downloaded techniques, he effortlessly molded raw mana crystals. But he wasn't using the previous standard Gold-tier shine and density anymore; he casually compressed them into flawless, hyper-dense Platinum-tier-and-shine cores.
