In the weeks that followed, Mordred adopted an almost monastic discipline. Every day, at dawn, he would go to his cell-laboratory to begin his methodical experiments. He had established a protocol of impressive scientific rigor: each trial was timed, each environmental condition noted, each result analyzed from every angle.
His data chart was enriched daily with increasingly precise information. He had developed a personal scale to measure the intensity of injected mana, based on his physical sensations and observed reactions. Each explosion was studied: direction of debris, intensity of the blast, color of emitted light, duration of instability preceding the explosion.
