The compounds moved fast.
Partly because their efficiency had improved… and partly because the order came from Ethan. Nobody dared treat it like a "maybe later" task.
In less than two days, every compound finished screening.
And the result hit Ethan like a bucket of ice water.
Out of the Atlas Federation's thirty-something million survivors… not a single person had awakened a seal-breaking type skill.
Ethan was furious.
He'd genuinely believed that with numbers like that, he'd find at least one or two. Then they could break Abyron's seal, drag Dopey back to Blackpine Wilds, settle the Titan Bull score, and maybe even hunt a few more Stage SS beasts while they were at it.
Stage SS crystal cores would've been the kind of jackpot that could send their strength rocketing again.
Instead, nothing.
Zero.
Every plan he'd been building off that idea died on the spot.
