Chapter 1721

Tessa's face fell. There was no way the raw stone in Maeve's hands could be real. "If I'm not wrong, the raw stone's greatest power lies in altering magnetic fields and reversing time. But to use it to stabilize Earth's magnetic field, you'd need an incredibly precise and intricate machine. "The Lucent has spent years brainwashing wealthy elites just to fund your experiments. And you didn't stop at their money—you took their talent too. "You've been exploiting geniuses from all over the country to create the advanced instruments needed to study the raw stone's composition, hoping to break through the limits of human civilization. "But those machines you've poured so much into—they can only survive a single failure. If you weren't gambling everything, you wouldn't be playing these games with us. "It's because you can't afford to lose at all! "And if the raw stone Liam's holding is fake, then all your dreams of building your perfect empire with that machine will come crashing d