It had been fifteen days since Allen returned to Deep Blue Residence from Hub City, and his study was utterly transformed.
There was no longer any trace of a homely feel; it looked more like a precision laboratory that had been forcibly crammed into a residential apartment.
Multipurpose workstations, brought over from the Cybertron Half-Plane by his workshop drones, took up most of the space. Along the walls were piles of various texts purchased from the Association's knowledge base—
An Introduction to Basic Rune Structures (Fourth Revised Edition), A Primer on Magic Power Spectrum Analysis, Battlefield Residue Disposal Protocols, A Guide to High-Tier Alchemy Production Line Design...
In the very center of his desk, several date-pit-sized, self-regulating metal cores were suspended in an energy field next to a large pile of design drafts.
