Lith burned with envy for a brief moment before his fatherly pride trampled all over his petty feelings.
"That’s my girl!" He peppered Elysia’s face with kisses, making her giggle. "Why are we so different?"
Lith pointed at himself and then at Ryla.
"Isn’t it obvious?" Baba Yaga said, and everyone stared at her dumbly. "I have no idea why Balors and Fomors have blue skin, but I know why yours is red. It seems that a rank 3 human’s body is infused with so much life force that it spills over your skin.
"I wonder what would happen if the power of your mana core flowed just as strongly." To Ryla and Urhen, it sounded like an idle question, but everyone else knew the answer.
Once mana joined life force, Spirit Magic was born. Lith’s red skin proved that he was just one evolutionary step behind the First King.
"As for your wings, they are no different from a white crystal." Baba Yaga continued. "Unlike those of a Fomor or a Balor, the elements are perfectly amalgamated. Your feathers can absorb all elements at the same time instead of one at a time."
"This is amazing!" Lith spread his wings, and he felt the world energy flood his seven eyes.
Elysia managed to imitate him a moment later, lighting her eyes with the power of all elements.
"No, this is underwhelming." The Red Mother snorted. "This is nothing like the form you reached in Jiera. You are not like Ryla and Urhen, Lith. You are already Awakened."
"That’s a very good point." Quylla pondered. "Do you think this is like the Voidfeather Dragon missing the Dragon Eyes? Something Lith’s human side has lost to balance itself with the other aspects of his life force?"
"No, silly child." Baba Yaga shook her head. "This is the first time Lith takes the true form of his human life force. It’s like a muscle he never exercised."
"I don’t have the time to practice my skills as..." Lith looked at himself, yet no name came to his mind for that new form.
"Red Human." Tista suggested, obtaining countless glares in reply, even from Elysia. "What? So, he can call me Red Demon, but I can’t call him Red Human?"
"You could have always named yourself differently, Sis, but this is beyond the point." Lith sighed. "Zoreth doesn’t have long. She can’t wait until I work this thing out."
"Luckily for her, she doesn’t have to." Baba Yaga shapeshifted into her Asura form and wore the Master and Apprentice Hands of Menadion, matching the elemental gems with her corresponding arm.
"We don’t need the Elemental Storage for this. Ryla and I will be enough." She placed one elemental hand near Lith’s corresponding eye while staring at the Spirit Eye. "Activate one elemental power at a time, Ryla, starting from now."
The Asura channeled the endless flow of world energy from the mana geyser below her feet, the two towers she was connected to, Starforge and Bloodhaven, and the Hands of Menadion inside her body.
She wrapped Lith in it and then flooded him with the raw power of the elements. At the same time, Ryla unleashed the golden lightning, the red fire, the swirling water, the orange aura, the shadow double, and lastly the inner light.
Father and daughter absorbed the power of the elements from their wings one by one and channeled it into their eyes. The human bloodline abilities flooded their bodies, filling them with more strength than they could handle.
The wings on Lith’s and Elysia’s back unfolded and released the excess energy in the form of colored plumes of smoke. Yet Baba Yaga never lowered the pressure, taking care it remained just above Lith’s and Elysia’s respective capacities.
’I don’t know how developed Elysia’s instinct is, and I’m not going to endanger a baby.’ She thought. ’I’ll keep her safe while Lith figures it out. Once he does, she should be able to imitate-’

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