"The amount of terrain manipulation alone..." another professor trailed off, shaking his head.
They were not used to Ren, so very obviously not from the Central Academy…
The audience hadn't seen the Jade Wolverine launch powerful lightning bolts of the type the hydra had used to devastate opponents, but most knew that was in a certain way more a specific skill of the hydra species with added elemental control than a pure elemental control lightning in its most fundamental form.
Species-specific abilities versus raw manipulation… different categories entirely.
Feats like controlling the entire field in little more than an instant, generating dozens of massive stakes and transforming the terrain so completely that it seemed a beast of superior rank had executed the technique with just elemental control, were too "different in nature".
