"You will need to work a lot on your control abilities... your Arcane Crest is immensely powerful because it uses the Eye of Destruction as the foundation, something that is a top-notch Wonder of Void. The power of the Destruction Energy within your body is something that is dangerous and close to the existential level of the Tier 13 Primarchs."
It didn't take me long to figure out her problems that she was facing with her Arcane Crest... that was certainly problematic, but nothing that couldn't be addressed with enough time and training.
For that, I was pretty sure.
"I know... the power is very hard to control, for every second of the Arcane Crest was activated, it kept draining my mental powers tremendously, and I have a feeling that the Destruction Energy is somehow sentient right now... or at least semi-somehow sentient..."
In an instant, my eyes sharpened, hearing that because that was a pretty dangerous thing to happen, but it seemed that this was one of the unforeseen consequences of what had happened...
"I should have known that Eye of Destruction could develop a certain degree of sentience, albeit a very primitive one at that, but it still presents dangers. For now, you need to obtain at least a rudimentary understanding before exterminating the possible sentience from the Arcane Crest. Or..."
I stopped my speech, because a somewhat outlandish idea came to me as I was thinking about her unique situation.
"Or what? I always have very bad premonitions when you do something like this."
Indeed, they knew me well, because it was indeed something to have a very bad promotion about... In fact, the idea that came to my mind was absolutely suicidal to almost everyone, but the opportunities hidden within were almost as much staggering as the danger present.
"This would be another suicidal idea from our dear beloved husband."
Grayfia voiced her dissatisfaction slightly because she, too, was often the subject of several of my crazy ideas, though, at the same time, she was aware that every single one of my ideas was also extremely profitable.
"If my assumptions are true, and for sure they are, then the semi-consciousness that was within the Eye of Destruction could be assimilated by you and become something like secondary consciousness within your mind, basically acting like an adjusted supercomputer, making predictions and handling various tasks."
It would be basically like she gained a secondary brain out of nowhere, and something like this wasn't really possible. For that, with her current strength could be achieved only through an extraordinary means, like the consciousness within the Eye of Destruction.
"That's your brilliant and best idea! It's almost as stupid and suicidal as the previous one!"
I frowned, seeing that Vena wasn't really thrilled at my idea, even though I knew that she was aware of the benefits, despite not really wanting to admit the fact.
"Actually, it is a very good ritual; as long as we have something of the equivalent exchange to sacrifice for the ritual to suppress the consciousness while you assimilate it, it would be okay, and you would gain something on the level of most super-advanced Artificial Intelligence."
Hearing my reasoning made them pause, and even Grayfia, who was typically most skeptical of all my excellent ideas, was now considering it wholeheartedly. Within our family, it was Grayfia who often acted as the voice of reason and logic.
"That would work, but where do you want to find something of the equivalent exchange to the Eye of Destruction... the Wonders of Void don't grow on trees, as we all know."
I nodded my head in agreement with the statement because it was true that the Wonders of Void were not growing on the trees, but at the same time, with the addition of Witch Queen Iggwilv, we obtained the methods of traveling from Oerth.
In fact, their Magic was so exotic and advanced that it wasn't that advanced to the Baatorians in some aspects, and it was even outshining them in several others.
With that addition, we managed to develop methods of scrying through the Endless Void far more effectively than ever before.
And it paid off tremendously because, after a few errors, Mephisto Pheles, with his students, came up with methods of locating newly birthed Wonders of Void within the Endless Void.
Most interestingly, when the Wonder of Void was birthed from the Endless Void, it released a wave of specific energy on a unique frequency that would linger in the Endless Void for some time, or rather, it would spread through certain areas of the Endless Void.
Simultaneously, the energy released by the newly born Wonder of Void would remain in effect for a rather long time if you consider a few years a long time. This gave us enough time to compete for the Wonder of Void, and thus, we have several of them in the Imperial Vaults right now.
So, finding something that would fit the requirements of the equivalent exchange won't be hard, hopefully, to say the least. It would probably take some time, but I had no doubt it would be successful.
"Hmm...we would be going with that plan. How long would it take you to find something of the equivalent exchange for the ritual?"
In the end, Venelana decided to go with my plan, fortunately at least, because she, too, was aware of how beneficial it was for her.
Even though it may seem hard and would take some time to accomplish.
"Maybe in a few years, I will order everyone to dedicate all of the free manpower to search for the Wonders of Void... it would be at least several years at best and a few decades at worst... when we find it, we could start the ritual."
For the time being, the various Magisteriums of the Chthonian Empire of the Baator would have a lot of work for the time being.
At least they would be doing something productive for the time being, as for most of the time, they were either researching Magic or new Technologies. Now, that I have reached the Primarchy, there was one thing that I could finally do and get rid of it from my mind.
Once again, seeing my home Universe.
The Immaterius Universe.