"You clearly don't dedicate yourself to research overmuch, do you? When in the grasp of breakthrough, there IS no stopping or moving on. The only time moving on comes into play is when you've been stopped by abject failure and Ixis Naugus does NOT fail." His tail, no longer coiled around one leg, thumps onto the ground once with emphasis.

"Worth of society isn't necessarily something that needs to be tested, at least when you're one such as myself." The mage takes a moment to buff his claw against his chest. "But simply because everyone else is beneath you doesn't mean they're without USES."