That particular detail stumped them for a while. The new rift creating plates that they had made actually created a flat portion at the bottom of the rifts, which should have prevented any mana from coming up through the ground. But there was clearly still something influencing the mana.
Their theory was that Matt’s personal mana wasn’t completely pure anymore despite Erwin, Luna, and Kurt all agreeing that it was unaspected mana.
They even made a special trip to the largest city on the planet and found a group of kids being awakened.
To isolate that as a variable, they brought with them a struggling Tier 1 monster pulled from the most neutral rift they had made so far. For the first time, Matt got to see the other side of a mortal’s awakening.
A monster was placed in the machinery con
