The examples they were currently testing during their rest were the most normal elemental types of wind, water, fire, and earth. Those rifts didn’t seem to have any problems in reaching Tier 4 or 5 without losing their aspects.
They also learned that by completely draining the mana from the spot where they were forming the rift, they had increased the chances of the rift keeping the mana type they wanted. Their largest problem was that they didn’t always know if the rift truly lost the elemental aspect it had.
It was only after Erwin insisted on a more thorough examination of their latest rift that they discovered something to the contrary. The rift seemingly had no relation to the element they were using to form it. In that instance, it was a water mana charged rift that had a typical f
