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Agh, he never felt very good at naming things. He supposed it didn't matter too much, though. This was just for himself, for his own ease of use when materializing. It wasn't like with the Candle, where picking a bad name might have negative consequences later.

...Or was it like that?

Oh fuck, now he was starting to worry. This place wasn't normal. This black metal wasn't normal. While he might've had a better sense of its nature, thanks to whatever the hell he was doing with his meditation right now, he still couldn't be entirely sure that something weird like that was out of the question.

Maybe he was overthinking. In fact, that was probably the case. He just needed to pick something that was fitting. And easy to remember. And short. It wouldn't do if he had to rattle off some long ass name in the middle of a fight.

Something like... Chaos? That was nice and short. Maybe not too fitting, though. The reason he'd thought of it was because the black stuff kinda seemed like it might be born from Chaos, like the Beast of Lorent supposedly had. So in that sense, it might've been fitting, but now that he was evaluating the name more... it seemed inappropriate for something that was supposed to protect him.

Hmm.

Well, maybe he could nail down the name later. There was still more to learn about the material itself, he felt. More to its nature.

It needed to be close to him. And it was strong. Difficult to move. Difficult to be moved. Stubborn, even.

Yeah. That was the word for it. Stubborn. It didn't want to give in to anyone or anything, even him. The only reason it made an exception for him at all was because...

Because it was him. Part of him.

Right.

He decided to make it move. To reshape both the pyramid and the cube.

He wanted to see if they could become goop again and "infect" more of the iron beneath them. It seemed as though, once they'd become solid, the infection had stopped spreading.

Maybe infection was the wrong term for it, though. That made it sound like a bad thing, and he was fairly sure that it wasn't. If it was increasing his volume limit with the Amir-9 metal like he hoped it was, then it would, in fact, be quite a good thing.