"How certain are you of doing this?" Agnes asked, brows furrowed.
"Hmm, about fifty-fifty," Warden answered, holding the container of Quintessence of Light. "Pretty good odds, wouldn't you say?"
"I still think that it's a terrible idea," she said, studying the array layered on the barrel-shaped construct Warden completed last night to help him awaken his lineage power. Ignoring its misshapen shape, the array was one of the toughest stuff he had built.
The captain certainly didn't understand the art that went behind for it to come to fruition. "Void and Light attributes don't mix well together."
Warden knew that. His void energy would likely swallow down the light whole, but he had a sinking feeling that there was more to it than just that. The light-attributed power of the celestial was something special. It wasn't simply light, but the Light of life, of creation. It was radiance.
While void might seem opposite at first glance, it wasn't directly so compared with Darkness and Death. If he could make his Radiance power as strong as the void energy capacity, he felt there wouldn't be a problem wielding both powers.
"I never heard of people awakening contrasting power," she muttered. "Even if they had, they didn't survive to tell the tale."
Honestly, Warden was a little iffy about using the quintessence of light inside the subspace. However, considering it would take at least a week to advance to the next layer, he thought they could afford to spend a couple of days on this. Besides, his radiant power would aid in hunting the moon spawns.
"Well, it's not like you are going to die or get yourself crippled," Agnes said.
Warden was not so sure of that at first. That's why the array. It had taken a lot of his creative brainpower to come up with it and a lot more effort to carve it into the huge barrel, which he would use to channel the quintessence of the light.
Warden grinned. He raised his index finger and channelled the newly transformed energy. A twinkling little light appeared above his index finger, causing Agnes to frown in surprise.
"Is this a trick or something?" She asked. "Even for people with no attribute, it is terribly harder to acquire, and you did it in just like 10 minutes?"
"Perhaps, Captain, we both have underestimated my light affinity."
Well, he certainly did underestimate that. Even with all his hopes and wishes, Warden did not think it would work on the first try. He was prepared to go the long way if his first few attempts failed, but it appeared all he needed was more intensity of light.
"Are you going to get into that again?"
"Obviously," Warden said as he began removing his light armour. "The armour is light-attributed. It was absorbing much of the intensity before it could stimulate me."
Agnes nodded as he entered the array again, this time bare-chested. The intensity is set at 20% on this occasion, with five grams of the quintessence.
Warden triggered the formation, and it was an even more intense feeling than before. It was akin to being burned in a master blacksmith's forge. Light crashed into his eyes, blinding him; it surged through his skin and into his system. Void energy came to battle against the invading force, both equally impressive.
But it was the home turf for void energy. Although Warden restricted some capacity of his energies just so that the quintessence could stimulate him further, void energy claimed victory in about a quarter of an hour, though it had ravaged his skin and muscles swelled up, his channels ravaged with burning intensity. It would take at least an hour to heal them completely.
This time, a whole lot of his power had weakened, and replaced by light-attributed energy, which wasn't necessarily strong enough to be threatening to a person, but at least could illuminate the dark.
Hopefully, he could grow more. There are still 93 grams of the quintessence left for him to use.