3064 Untapped Potential (Part 2)
Lith felt his Spirit and yellow eye react, but ignored them since he had no need to amplify the silver lightning further. He also felt a tingle in his black and red eyes, just like in Jiera.
'What can this be?' He thought. 'How can fire and darkness interact with Life Maelstrom?'
Finding no answer and not wanting to contaminate the silver lightning with other elements, he kept making it flow from his Spirit eye to his life force, hoping to trigger a resonance effect.
When everything Lith could think of failed and he felt the power of the Life Maelstrom starting to fade, he let it access his darkness eyes. The silver lightning turned black and Lith recognized the bloodline abilities of the Jotunn from Verendi.
'If Life Maelstrom plus darkness produces Black Lightning what would fire-' Lith's train of thought derailed as he remembered witnessing Protheus' experiments on Valeron the Second's bloodline back at the Golden Griffon academy.
'The golden flame! In his Bahamut form, Protheus mixed Life Maelstrom and Origin Flames to obtain those weird golden flames. Can I really do that as well?'
Meanwhile, Morok felt the urge to merge his eyes to form the seventh, but he resisted it. He used Life Maelstrom to amplify his life force and connect it with the power of his emerald scales.
For a single moment, the elemental energy in the rest of his scales reached a perfect balance. The now matching six elements fused and absorbed a spark of the Tyrant's life force, painting all of his scales green.
Yet with Morok's next breath, his eyes absorbed an uneven amount of elemental energy and the balance was lost. The elemental scales rejected the spark of life force and reverted to their original color.
Morok didn't notice the phenomenon. No one did but Solus did and only because the Eyes of Menadion recorded the sudden energy spike and she could rewind the footage at will.
As for Ryla, she chose a different path.
'I don't have emerald eyes or scales but I know how Spirit Magic works.' She thought. 'Glemos, cursed be his name, taught me everything I needed to know in case something happened to him and it was up to me to help Garrik Awaken.
'I never thought the day would come when I used this knowledge for myself.' She focused on the elemental feathers on her wings and absorbed the surrounding world energy.
She couldn't use Invigoration for fine-tuning the six elemental flows but her eyes were the next best thing.
She used them to identify how much elemental energy each feather drew in, turning each one of them on and off until the six kinds of feathers absorbed exactly the same amount of world energy.
Then, she channeled the accumulated power from her eyes to her body, where the Life Maelstrom was already amplifying her life force. Ryla used the silver lightning to stir the seven flows together, in the attempt to find a way to merge them into one.
Suddenly, she felt like someone had pierced her guts with a flaming knife and was twisting her insides. Ryla, doubled over in pain, releasing the elemental energy from her eyes in the form of six pillars and dispersing the Life Maelstrom before it tore her apart.
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