Chapter 421 - 420: [Voidborn]
After testing the potency of void energy, Sol tried out most of the void skills he had obtained. He wanted to get a better understanding of them before deciding how best to combine them, but in doing so, he discovered something peculiar.
He noticed two main issues with void skills. The first was that they felt slightly weaker than when the voidlings had used them. It didn’t take him long to realize why. The voidlings had used these abilities within the void, where they had an infinite supply of void energy at their disposal. Sol unable to access that unending reserve, he could only use what was contained in his body.
While it was slightly disappointing that the skills weren’t as powerful, Sol wasn’t too disheartened. In fact, he felt a little relieved. Void energy was already more than powerful enough, easily able to harm A-Rankers. The other reason he wasn’t entirely disappointed was the reassurance it gave him. After facing the voidlings he was worried by the possibility that if they ever did manage to break through the dimensional barrier and invade their world, they would be unstoppable. Even A-Rankers would struggle against a swarm of voidlings at their peak, and that wasn’t even considering the existence of void lords. Luckily that wouldn’t be the case as the voidlings would be severely limited in void energy if they every invaded their dimension.
But the second issue...
Standing on one side of the room, Sol’s eyes were fixated on the opposite wall as he took a single step forward. Nothing out of the ordinary happened.
He sighed. "Nothing again."
The second issue was that some void skills simply didn’t work in this dimension, the most impactful of which was [Void Walk]. In the void, it had allowed him to traverse anywhere he wished, even taking others with him. But that was only possible because the void operated under different rules. Here, the skill simply failed to activate.
Other abilities like [Voidling Resemblance] and [Void Pulse] were similarly dependent on being in the void to function properly.
But [Void Walk] left him the most disappointed. He had hoped he wouldn’t need Reena, that he could return to the Great Forest, or even teleport straight to the Sapphire Scales Alliance, on his own.
’Nothing I can do about it. But now that I’ve tested them, I know what direction I should combine them into.’