"You don't seem like a newbie when it comes to Cores?"

The words rang out through the lab, filled with just two things.

The first were objects, ball-like, the size of a human heart, placed inside glasses divided into sections and covering an entire wall of the lab.

While at the far end of the other wall were bed-like machines, with glass and mechanical robotic hands hanging over them.

Before the walls stood Everlearn and Lady Erendel, both eyeing the hundreds of Mecha W-Cores in the glass wall.

'So many cores…'

Everlearn mused to himself, almost in disbelief.

He had never seen so many cores in his entire existence, and he was beyond awed right now.

"There are no Anomalous Cores, though," he said out loud, turning to Lady Erendel, whose brows instantly creased.

"Why? Wait? Do you wish to fuse with an Anomalous Core!?"

She asked in surprise, and Everlearn nodded.

"Of course?" he answered, watching the crimson light from her eyes increase again.

'Ash really sent him here to fuse with an Anomalous Core. That's most likely why she wants me to personally do the surgery,' Lady Erendel mused to herself.

"The Anomalous Core section is over there," she said, pointing to the side, and Everlearn turned just to find a smooth wall.

"Huh?"

He said, but then she tapped on her glass thrice, a panel appearing over her face, and her fingers moved out rapidly, typing on the holographic keyboard.

WHIIIIRRR!

A mechanical sound reverberated through the lab, and in a minute, the wall retracted in, only to push out a smaller glass panel containing cores.

But these were a lot different compared to the former, as they were not only larger, about twice the size, they were also thrumming with visible power.

"Hey. I get Ash wanted you to do this, but… if you say you don't want it, I won't force you at all," Lady Erendel said, but she fell silent when she watched Everlearn walk through to the glass, eyes furrowed.

"That one, and that one."

He said, pointing up at two of the cores.

"Those!?" Lady Erendel said.

"Those are the lowest stable amongst them. Sixty percent and sixty-five percent destructive stability. They're too destructive," she answered.

"I know. I can't fuse with two cores, can I? I just want to check them out."

He replied, and she nodded before tapping on her spectral screen, and the glass opened up.

Her hand reached forward, picking up the cores and passing them to him, but all Everlearn did was stare at the humming core before turning to look at her in disbelief.

"Are you trying to get me killed?"

He asked, watching her snicker in mockery.

"Just wanted to see…" she answered.

Touching those cores like she was doing would have burned his hand and melted through his hand bones in seconds.

And she had purposefully done that to see if he was truly knowledgeable or stupid, like she suspected.

"Bring it here," he said, pointing to a core sink by the side of the table.

Lady Erendel didn't argue much, putting the cores down and simply watching Everlearn in amusement.

The boy looked too young to know anything about what he had before him, yet his natural mannerisms and confidence made it seem like he actually knew what he was doing.

This stirred her amusement, and she drew a chair to the side, wanting to watch how long he could continue his act.

Everlearn, though, had already fallen into a world of his own.

Grabbing an extra pair of gloves from the side, he put them on both hands before grabbing a syringe nearby.

His other hand reached out, switching on the blue flame rinser at the side and watching the light flicker between blue and orange before turning the syringe across it.

It shone with a red light, and Everlearn's brow creased before he threw the syringe away, grabbing another and turning it over the flames.

Just before it also showed red, he flung that one away too, before grabbing another.

Lady Erendel witnessed all of this, and when Everlearn flung away the fifth syringe, she tapped on her glass, and a part of the table opened up, showing a neat row of well-arranged syringes.

"Hmm,"

Everlearn hummed as his hands reached out, grabbing one of the syringes and running it across the flame.

This time, it didn't stain an orange light; instead, a beautiful blue shimmer coated it.

He nodded, satisfied, before switching off the lights.

Raising his cloth sleeve over his arm, he grabbed a bind wire at the side, tightening it around his hand before clenching his fist hard.

Veins popped out, and Everlearn dug the syringe in, taking a small sample of his own blood.

Once he filled it, he placed it over a tiny circular tray to the side.

Jumping off the table, he walked over to another lab table, dragging away the microscope-like object before carrying it over to the table.

Lady Erendel unconsciously dragged her seat closer this time, watching in dumb shock as the boy quickly set the Corescope to the right mode before placing the core on it.

With one over the Corescope, Everlearn grabbed a bit of his blood and poured it over the core, a certain drop at a time.

When he was done mixing in half the blood with the core, it emitted a different light, and he carefully carried the core off, moving to the Core Oven and dropping the core into it.

"You're remodelling the Core? But the containment has been affected by your blood. What are—" She asked, only to be silenced when Everlearn shut the oven and switched the marker to number fifteen.

With that done, he moved back to the other core, drawing forth another syringe and more blood.

He reset the Corerscope and placed the second core under it before spilling his blood over it.

When he was done with that, he moved to the Core Oven and placed the core into it.

"Three minutes, twenty-five seconds exactly," Everlearn mused to himself, bringing out his device and setting forth the clock.

When that time exactly passed, he switched off the ovens before bringing out both cores and placing them in a core sink.

This time, Lady Erendel's eyes flashed in disbelief.

Anomalous Cores were known for their brilliant lighting, which emanated through them with more destructive energy and their larger size, but one of the cores Everlearn had used had actually lessened in size, and yet still throbbed with more power.

When she scanned it, she was shocked speechless.

The first one in the oven was 1,650 Energy Level with 65% Danger Level.

The other was 1,700, with actually just a 35% Danger Level.

She was completely blown away.

"How!?"

She asked, as Everlearn turned to her before pointing to the first.

"This one is bad. You can throw it away," he said to her before picking up the second one.

"Fuse this one with me."

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