Nosphaleen touched down on the ground, a weapon that should have been comically too large for her resting comfortably in her palm. It looked like she had always been meant to wield it, like there was no problem at all with the fact it alone was over three meters long while she was barely a hair over half that size.
Steam was practically radiating from her body, silky strands formed of her Whale Warlord Armor dancing in the skies as though ready to be deployed in attack at any given moment.
The Fifth Prince of the Buri Clan wasn't alone. He lazily rested on a throne carried by four, his large belly leading his body. Despite the size of his gut, though, there was something particularly stocky and powerful about him, as though if he focused, he could flex this fat no less easily than anyone else could flex their muscles.
Strong.
Nosphaleen tried to check his stats, but she was rebuffed, likely by a protective treasure. However, she didn't need it to tell that Fifth Prince Buri could probably kill Authrione in a few exchanges if he put his mind to it. And maybe even that was giving him too little credit.
Maybe he wouldn't have to put his mind to it at all.
However, what worried Nosphaleen wasn't the Fifth Prince alone. It was the squadron of more than a hundred strong who surrounded him, many of whom were looking at the corpses of Authrione and his cousin with burning eyes laced with rage.
If not for the fact they didn't dare to step outside of what they were ordered to do by him, they would have long since attacked.
Nosphaleen knew of the Fifth Prince from Borun's memories. Every Clan of the Thryskai was unique in the way they used their Skai Eye, and each one could almost be considered a separate, individual race of their own. There was certainly a lot of Gene Theory involved in why they did this, and it was likely thanks to exactly this that the Thryskai were among the most successful races in the entire universe. But that was beside the point right now.
What was important was that the Buri Clan were all like this-Thryskai who stored a great amount of fat on their bodies. However, this fat wasn't for the sake of hand-to-hand combat like many others who took this route.
They instead used their Skai Eyes like a hub of concentrated world energy, almost similar to the World Jade in Sylas' possession. With their Skai Eye as an anchor, they changed their individual cells to store a great amount of energy as well.
Because they were still a Mortal Clan, right now, the only cells they could do this to were their fat cells. But even with all this said, this wasn't just a matter of controlling larger amounts of Aether.
The energy was just a conduit, a bridge that allowed them to power their Skai Eye to affect change onto the world around them, extending the range of their Skai Eye's world onto the spatial plane around them.
Essentially, every ripple of power that extended from the Buri Clan's members was able to cause vibrational and resonant changes onto the spatial plane around them, resulting in not only devastating levels of spatial control, but incredibly invasive control as well.
When Authrione was suffering cracks in his scales when facing the Fifth Prince, this wasn't because the space around him was distorting and shredding into him. It was because the space that made up Authrione himself—the latter's very imprint on the world itself—was being distorted.

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