Once Eirene understood the principle behind the void disc, she adapted almost instantly.
The disc was simple in concept and brutal in cost. Distance had a price. Space demanded fuel. The farther the leap, the more violent the consumption.
So naturally, Lucien expected the first jump to require another painful amount of stored energy.
That problem lasted all of three breaths.
Then Eirene solved it.
Lucien watched her place one hand over the Void Disc.
Her aura thinned.
Her Law unfolded like a scale becoming visible over the world.
The Law of Equivalence.
At first, nothing seemed to happen.
Then Lucien felt the surroundings change.
A section of pressure disappeared from the air. Weight shifted. A faint silver thread ran from the wind, from the latent force inside stones, from the accumulated vitality sleeping in roots beneath the earth, and into the disc.
They were reassigned.
Lucien's eyes narrowed.
Eirene was not merely "adding energy."
She was identifying values.
