He's not the sort who lets praise like that go to his head, but he can't help but grin. Mostly he's amused by her attempt at breaking his web, like, she didn't half ass that at all, she really went all out on it. Credit where it's due, man.

"Yeah, I made it. My first couple formulas for it were made of stuff I picked up in my school's chem lab. I've had to get a little creative since then, I didn't really have access to the same stuff in Hadriel. But nah, I wouldn't say I'm the smartest person here. Like, maybe when it comes to science and tech? But there are plenty of people here that are great at things that I just have no talent for."

Like anything plant related. Don't ask this boy to grow a tree. Anyway, he's going to just take a moment here to pull that web off the jeep and. Just. Drop it on the table. That was anticlimactic.