"Maybe it’s because my wings are made of pure energy, but I can’t make way for the world energy. I need just a thought to push my mana out, but moving it away? I’m trying everything I can, but nothing."
"Try emitting your mana from your eyes, big brother." Garrik said. "Split it into the six elements and breathe it out until only your life force is left. Then close your eyes and focus on your wings."
Morok followed his little brother’s advice and produced six elemental pillars from his eyes. He shot them towards the sky to ensure that nobody would get hurt and not trigger the defensive arrays of the Mansion.
"Not like that." Garrik studied the pillars for a few seconds, noticing that Morok kept a constant output. "All at once. You don’t breathe out this slowly with your nose. You do it at once because you know you can take a breath in just as quickly."
"Yes, master." Morok replied, making the young Fomor-Tyrant hybrid chuckle.
The Tyrant exhaled from his mouth and emptied his eyes at the same time. Then he inhaled from his nose and wings, but only air flowed through both.
"It’s not working. Sorry, little brother."
"Because you have stopped." Garrik said. "Keep pushing elemental energy, no matter how little it comes out. Like this!"
He generated a thin stream of red mystical flames from his hand while his wings absorbed the surrounding world energy.
Morok noticed how Garrik’s wings failed to split the world energy correctly. Only a few patches of his feathers became red, and the resulting stream of flames was erratic. One second was smaller than a candle’s flame, and the next it resembled a proper tier one spell.
"I understand my mistake now, little brother." The Tyrant nodded. "When you talked about breathing, I imagined my eyes as my mouth and my wings as my nose, but the mental image I pictured is wrong.
"My wings and eyes can work at the same time. I don’t need to breathe in the world energy first and then breathe it out as I’ve done until now. I must do everything at once."
’And that’s why I told you that it’s not like breathing but more like opening a channel.’ Solus grunted via the mind link.
’Too many cooks spoil the broth.’ The Tyrant replied. ’I can only follow one advice at a time, and yours made no sense. Now it does. Thanks, Solus.’
"Thanks, Garrik." Morok took a deep breath with Invigoration to replenish his dwindling mana and gave the young Fomor’s technique another try.
Morok kept emitting elemental energy from his eyes, and nothing happened for several minutes. Then, a faint crackle accompanied sparks of world energy arching on the reverse-V shaped bones on his back that generated his wings.
The Tyrant’s six eyes lit up with the power of the elements and started to emit short pulses of energy. It was at that point that Morok doubled over in pain and coughed up blood.
"You did it, big brother! I always knew you were a genius!" Garrik jumped with joy.
"Thanks, little brother, but this is nothing." Morok spat a lump of blood and phlegm out as the sparks on his wings and the light in his eyes faded. "I can bleed much, much more than this. One time I had one of my hearts pierced-"
"He’s talking about your success in absorbing the world energy!" Ryla shut Morok’s mouth with her hand. "Stop talking about your wounds. You are scaring Garrik!"
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