The elemental crystals already Bonded on the top of the staff syphoned the conflicting energies and neutralized them.
Normally, elemental crystals needed to process world energy to replenish themselves, but the Balor’s eyes absorbed so much light and darkness elements that the crystals acted as exhaust ports, taking what they could and discharging the rest.
"Don’t worry, it’s working." Solus answered to Lith’s worried look. "I’ve checked with the Ears and Eyes thrice."
Lith nodded and repeated the process two more times. When the final elemental eyes and crystals merged with the Yggdrasill wood, the power they conjured produced an audible hum.
’This never happened during the simulations.’ Lith said via a mind link not to waste time while he cast the Bonding spell for the Spirit Crystals. ’There is no trace of the network that should link all the eyes with all the crystals.’
’That’s because you always connected them at the same time as the Spirit Crystals.’ Solus saw the conflict between the elemental energies grow more violent by the second. ’If I’m right-’
She was.
The moment the Spirit Crystals fused with the Sage Staff and completed the circles, the Balor’s eyes stopped clashing with their opposite twin. The energy of the six eyes now flowed into the emerald gemstone, which redistributed it evenly among them until they matched.
The elemental crystals on top of the Staff, instead, became capable of redirecting the excess energy they received from the Balor’s eyes into the Spirit Crystal, forming a mana circuit.
It was a permanent mana circle that only needed one or more proper sequences of runes to become an array.
"Wow, this amazing! Much better than our previous version of the Sage Staff." Solus said while checking on both the sets of eyes and crystals. "The elemental crystals fuel the mana circuit with no burden on the wielder or the staff itself.
"The extra energy produced by the Balor eyes is now channeled into the circuit instead of being discharged out of the staff. Not even a speck of world energy goes to waste. Royal Forgemasters can teach a thing or two even to ancient Awakened bloodlines."
"Please, Epphy, you’re making me blush." Menadion said, blushing as if she were the inventor and Forgemaster of Vorgh’s staff.
"The best part is that even though we don’t have any legacy to guide our work, no offence, Ripha..." Lith said.
"Much taken." She snarled.
"We have one advantage even on the Royal Forgemasters, and I’m not referring to the Spirit Crystals. That’s something any Awakened can do." Lith ignored her remark and continued. "Take a good look at the Sage Staff’s new mana circulatory system."
Solus blinked a few times in confusion until the realization dawned on her.
"By my Mom, you’re right. How could I forget about that?" She activated her breathing technique, Sky Blessing, to observe how much the Yggdrasill wood had changed since the last time she had taken a good look at it.
When Bonded to magic metals, mana crystals created a unique mana circulatory system based on their position, number, the shape of the metal, and the impurities it contained.
The Yggdrasill wood, however, had once been part of the World Tree, a powerful Awakened who had constantly refined their body for almost ten thousand years. Bonding the eyes and elemental crystals to the wood had revitalized the dead branch.
The world energy naturally flowed through the wood fibers without encountering any resistance because the Yggdrasill staff already had a perfect mana circulatory system.


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