Ed didn't originally look at the blood gauntlet beast as an opportunity but hearing A's response it was possible he was being too pessimistic.
'Yeah you are right, an opportunity' Ed still had parts of the hydra's corpse in his storeroom. It might be possible to make a vastly superior hydra gauntlet with those materials assuming he received the proper insight.
'If the ancients could do it, why can't I?' Ed asked giving himself some confidence.
'I'll leave you to it then' Ed finally transmitted to A before focusing back on the real world. He trusted himself.
It was a new day since Ed first fed the orphans and put the elves to work. The events of that day transgressed in an unexpected manner. The elder water mage who had been sick from hunger and collapsed before was able to douse water on all the elves to calm them down.