Chapter 1111
Waking up with no indication of his parents filled Chidi with great concern. He was only slightly less worried when he learned about what happened to them. He wanted to hug them. People who went centuries without hugging anyone probably became terrible people like Zaur. Unless they just didn’t like hugs.
But he couldn’t. Or shouldn’t. Chidi awoke with new confidence, but while he was perfectly certain in his ability to negate external energy, negating energy inside of others was another thing entirely. Chidi was able to observe his parents from a safe distance, and he learned quite a bit. The energy was flowing back and forth between them. It was so tempting to reach out and disrupt it, but that could go wrong in any number of ways.
First of all, it was clear that the remnants of energy were what was powering the transition back and forth between Catarina and Timothy. If he disrupted the transfer, the constant movement that kept it contained would also become unstable. The energy could easily go wild and tear them apart from the inside.
The current solution was quite elegant, though not without risks of its own. It was unlikely to be perfectly stable, improvised as it was. But in theory, over time it would use up the excess energy. The problem there was that the timeframe to use up domination energy for such a simple process was immense.
Aconite stood with him, attempting to solve the issue much as he was. “I could… introduce some energy negating compounds into their bodies?” she growled lightly.
“That’s just as risky as what I might do alone,” Chidi said. “Perhaps I could create a longer lasting wide area negation. But that wouldn’t really free them from the situation. The energy doesn’t even really go away.” Chidi shook his head. “But this isn’t our problem alone. We should join with the rest of the Scarlet Alliance on this issue. Koralo has some plans that are intriguing. We both learned from my mother, but the exact details were different given our focuses. I’m sure we can figure something out.”
If not… well, Chidi had already been exceptionally lucky as a cultivator. The number of losses around him had been minimal. Though if there were going to be losses… he might have preferred it to be Prasad. Though obviously he would never say that to the man himself. They were still allies, even if their interests were not allied on every minor topic.
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The lower realms were still feeling the aftereffects of the wars, though spirits were high overall. The east and west, however, had different consequences.