Only enough flesh to keep Lith's mory and mind intact remained, everything else was an ever-shifting mass of pure darkness, so thin that it was nigh-two dinsional.
It was the Shadow Step bloodline ability that belonged to Dark Phoenixes like Kigan and Raaz, were Lith's father ever to Awaken his dormant abilities. The Demons followed suit, disappearing from sight and slithering along the corners of the streets to go unnoticed while they spread throughout the city.
The Voidfeather Dragon's mass was much greater and sothing of his size moving around was hard to miss, no matter how thin he made himself. He split his body into smaller pieces moving small groups of them at a ti but always keeping the fragnts close enough to not lose control over them.
This way, he could hide in plain sight, even using bystanders and carriages to move around more quickly.
'I don't get it.' Lith pondered. 'What's the point of compressing the space and blocking dinsional magic inside the city? Sure, most monsters can't use magic above tier three, but so like orc shamans and Fomors can.
'Even if it protects the city from invasions, the mont the position of the underground complex is revealed, dinsional magic would be the least of their problems.'
The Voidfeather Dragon could move solely when nobody was looking in his direction and the Demons confird to him that there was no one at the windows of the buildings around him either.
If not for the space compressing array, he could have just sent the smaller and faster Demons as advance scouts and then Warped to their coordinates as soon as they found a safe spot big enough to hide him.
'The real purpose of the array is to focus and compress the world energy. This way, not only does the presence of the mana geyser escapes magical detection from the outside but its energy is also more easily assimilated by the children of Glemos.' The Voidfeather replied.
'The dinsional magic seal is just a side effect since the array doesn't discriminate, compressing the space simply because it's filled with world energy. Modifying the magical formation so as to not hinder dinsional magic would greatly increase its complexity for little return.
'Aside from orc shamans, no unfallen race can use dinsional magic, and out of here, the monsters revert to their fallen state so they wouldn't be capable of Warping inside anyway.'
'How do you know that?' Lith was flabbergasted.
They were supposed to be the sa person, but now that the Voidfeather Dragon had cald down, he seed smarter and more logical than Lith himself.
'Because I have eyes. How else?' The Divine Beast shared his senses with Lith who remained amazed by what infusing each of his seven eyes with elental energy achieved.
There was no sudden developnt of skills like Earth or Water Vision, but by splitting the elents between the seven eyes, the Voidfeather could observe their individual flow.
The air and earth elents from the arrays compressed the world energy and in turn the life force of the monsters who assimilated it, allowing them to keep a semi-unfallen state.
The water elent condensed inside the buildings every ti soone pushed a button, giving them the equivalent of tap water. The light and the fire elents coursed through street lamps and ho appliances to generate respectively light and warmth.
Unlike Life Vision which showed the strength of a person or the runes of a spell, through the Voidfeather Dragon's seven eyes Loth could witness the effects of the flow of magic inside both living beings and inanimate objects.
On top of that, through the Spirit Eye Lith could also see how the life force and the fallen core of the various monsters interacted with each other. The Spirit Eye showed him where they knotted, clashed, and where they instead harmonized.
'I've used my seventh eye many tis but this never happened. How can-'
'Because you filled all the eyes with Spirit Magic.' The Voidfeather cut Lith short. 'The other eyes work as a filter, removing the undesired elental flows that would otherwise hinder your perception.'
By focusing the Fire, Light, and Spirit Eyes one at a ti on the sa person the Divine Beast obtained their thermal readings, their health scan, and a glimpse of how their fallen life force had ssed up with their mana cores.
'This raises another question.' Lith said. 'If you are this good with my bloodline abilities and have an agenda of your own, why didn't you manifest sooner? Not that I'm complaining but the Void has been much more vocal during my life and a huge pain in the ass.'
'An agenda?' The Voidfeather Dragon snorted. 'My agenda is for you to be happy instead of the lonely, miserable man you've always strived to beco. The little voice in your head that told you that Solus was right about making friends at the academy was .
'Just like I was the one who pushed you to trust Phloria with your secret and forgive Solus after she lied to you about Protector. I don't want to take your place. I want you to stop surviving and start living. There's a big difference, you know?'
'I know.' Lith sighed. 'But why have you been so discreet? I could have used-'
'More power?' The Voidfeather Dragon's mind flared in outrage. 'That's the last thing you needed. Power is what made you shut everyone out of your life, thinking you didn't need them.
'It's weakness that taught you the lessons you needed to grow up and showed you your limits. Also, it's not like I had much of a choice. Keeping the jackass sealed took everything I had and the few tis I tried to influence you, you ignored .'
'Point taken.' Lith nodded. 'Then how co I didn't notice any of your abilities until now?'
'How many tis have you taken this form for more than a few seconds?'
'With this mission, it makes four tis.' Lith telepathically scratched his head in embarrassnt.
'Once back in Urgamakka, when due to your split life force I had no power.' The Voidfeather nodded. 'Once inside the Golden Griffon, another after Phloria's death, and now.
'You've always been fascinated by Chaos and the Cursed Flas but you've never bothered asking yourself what, or rather, who protected you from their side effects and allowed you to employ them safely. You are welco.'
Lith felt a jerk toward himself, which confused him even more. Luckily, the Voidfeather Dragon was too focused on following Solus' light to give him a second glance.
During the trip, Lith could observe from up close the living quarters of the different fallen races, being surprised by the Tyrant's bloodline ingenuity. The darkness elent that filled the houses of the trolls kept the Decay of their cores at bay. It further slowed down their tabolism and extended their lifespan.
The goblins didn't live in huge condos just because of their numbers, but because this way they were capable of sharing their powers with the inhabitants of the whole building.
This allowed them to perform magical experints that required lots of mana despite their flimsy orange cores.
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