Exaggeration. Which the following sentence even eludes to. You don’t have to be a genius to use such a word.
Yeah, he wasn’t exaggerating. If the armor on his shoulder was obliterated in that manner, whatever did that should have also done the same to the arm underneath.
Conventional armor maybe but we’re talking about armor made out of material we can’t even fathom.
I don’t think it matters if we understand the way the armor works. The fact that something can completely destroy the layer of protection, but only the layer of protection, is quite an amazing feat if you were trying it, and very unlikely to be the result from random damaging event. it takes impressive calibration to pull that off.