Forged Destiny [Book 9: Ch. 1]

Other ideas were thrown back and forth, from Tailors using linen to wrap up Grimm, to a huge portal being opened out into the ocean or an army of Blacksmiths creating a chain several miles long to wrap around the walls of Vale, then superheating it to a thousand degrees when the Grimm hit.

Most of them were fantastical. I couldn't generate enough heat for that much metal, nor would Vale be able to procure it – and since my Passive was unique in letting me handle it, no one else could touch such a chain. There was also no telling what it might do to the structural integrity of the walls themselves.

But they were ideas and they were filled with hope, and in some strange way that was all we needed. Hope. It was enough to have me thinking about attaching a chain to my sword, or even just making a suit of armour with little links that would spin out and clip Grimm as I fought, and which could, in theory and with immense concentration, be heated up at will to cause more damage.

—Forged Destiny [Book 9: Ch. 1]