Chapter 827 Four Pillars: Long Road Ahead

Chapter 827 Four Pillars: Long Road Ahead

"Hmm..."

Rubbing her chin with her hand, Sellifer watched as Valyr used a great portion of the skills in his arsenal that were related to the matter at hand.

Keeping her judgment of Valyr's control over the skills more or less within the perspective of achieving the first stage of Azure Energy in mind, a number of thoughts had already popped up in her mind.

For one, she was quite surprised at the amount of control the young man showed whenever he unleashed his skills.

Recalling how he had mentioned to her earlier that he had no support from the Zeihardt clan whatsoever in his journey to power, Sellifer was surprised to see that the young man showed a level of expertise and prowess that could put him amongst the top of the elite.

Then again, with how Valyr had poor mana and Shadow Energy quality, the young man could not show all of that prowess through his skills, which Sellifer found quite a shame.

'Well, it's been a long time since the notion of purifying one's energy for greater power died down,' thought the woman to herself, reminiscing over a long-forgotten past.

With the amount of information she knew on what was happening in Veldanyr as of late, only mages and magic-related classes would bother attempting to purify their energy for greater power.

And that was only after they had done everything to elevate their power.

Returning her attention to the actual skills Valyr was showing, Sellifer noticed that although the skills the young man unleashed were using both Shadow Energy and mana at the same time, its approach was vastly different to the one she used.

'Before I discovered the Azure Trace, I was braiding my Shadow Energy and mana together to achieve greater power,' muttered Sellifer to herself inwardly.

'On the other hand, Valyr's utilizing both energies as if they were pieces to a jigsaw puzzle.'

From her point of view, whenever Valyr unleashed a skill that used both, he would summon the two energies together like she would do so in the past.

However, by the time he released the skill, it was as if the mana and Shadow Energy he summoned had already separated themselves into their respective areas, reminding her of a well-managed business.

Going through all of the skills Valyr had shown thus far, Sellifer felt that the delineation between both energies was fully shown when he threw out what he called an [Arcane Shadow Bolt].

'Shadow Energy to form the main body of the bolt, bringing forth the property of destruction,' thought Sellifer to herself. 'Then, mana to act as a propellant, while at the same time protecting the Shadow Energy from external interference.'

If Sellifer were still in her phase of trying to grasp Azure Energy, she would have thought that this method of using both energies was groundbreaking.

However, with her having more than mastered the concept of Azure Energy at this point, another thought filled her mind instead.

'What a waste.'

Rather than make use of the properties of Shadow Energy and mana to its fullest, Valyr instead focused on their properties separately in a way.

According to Sellifer, his skills had some areas where it was powered by only mana, as well as areas that were powered by only Shadow Energy.

However, if one were to use the hybrid car analogy to describe Valyr's situation once more, then his skills still lacked a feature that could be said to be a staple of hybrid cars.

Making use of both types of fuel in the same place at once.

In other words, Valyr had to incorporate Shadow Energy in areas that were only powered by mana while doing the same thing in the other direction for areas only powered by Shadow Energy.

Once Sellifer had brought him to this realization, Valyr could not help but scratch the back of his head, realizing that there was still a long road ahead of him before he could achieve even the most basic level of Azure Trace.

In response, Sellifer assured him that it would take far less time for him to achieve the same things she did, considering that there were many things he was better at compared to her at the time.

"Plus, you're way younger than me. You have a lot of time ahead of you to work this out," said Sellifer, reminding Valyr of the two that were still asleep.

Opening up a rift back to the inheritance proper out of nowhere, a wave of relief washed over the young man's body as he saw the moon still near the peak of its trajectory.

Though, at the same time, it made him curious as to how much time had passed since he touched the Azure Serpent Staff.

"There's not much point thinking about the ratio of time dilation in this place," said Sellifer, getting an idea of what was going on in the young man's mind.

"We'll definitely be here for a considerably long time, but it'll only feel like we've disappeared for a day or two from the others at most."

Recalling how he'd promised himself that he would only traverse the Gates of Awakening while the two were asleep, Valyr bitterly smiled as he thought about how he would make the two worry over his disappearance for the next few days.

'Then again, in front of an opportunity to gain more power...'

With that in mind, the young man took in a deep breath before focusing his attention once more on Sellifer.

Asking her what he needed to improve upon after that, the woman faintly smiled in satisfaction as she began to speak. "Obviously, the end goal for now is to have you make full use of both Shadow Energy and mana in your skills."

"And when I mean make full use of both energies, I mean incorporating even the small interactions between Shadow Energy and mana in your skills."

"But before we get to that, there's one thing we need to fix first."

"As long as we don't fix that, you'll end up wasting far more energy than needed whenever you activate your skills."

"What do I need to fix first?" asked Valyr in response, feeling a bit uneasy from how Sellifer worded her statement.

Though, after hearing her reply to his question, all of that unease quickly subsided.

"Of course, it's none other than the quality of your mana. Can't have your mana and Shadow Energy in different levels of purity, lest you want to create a new type of energy altogether."

"With that being said... let's get the two energies balanced, shall we?