A Bold Assumption

Regarding Hao Ren's operation in the Umbral Realm, Raven 12345 expressed her great appreciation for her own ability to have a sharp eye for discovering capable ones. She admitted that the information Hao Ren had gathered on his trip far surpassed her expectations and that the most valuable part of it was about the Umbral Realm's nature.

Hao Ren lined up tube-shaped metal containers containing samples of rock, soil, air, water, and a bouncing shimmer of light trapped in a force field, in front of Raven 12345.

"These are the specimen I asked the Petrachelys to collect. These are samples of materials from L'Haronne, and the shimmer of light comes from the edge of the Umbral Realm. The edge of the Umbral Realm isn't completely dark. There are some cool glowing clouds scattered and floating there. They have weird properties somewhere between matter and energy, completely out of line with the laws of physics, so I collected them."