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----Shin'i.
It was the energy that Elf Users needed to expend when commanding spirits, using Spirit Armaments, and casting Spirit Sorcery.
When Grayvas turned that pitch-black, clump-like spirit into her weapon and drew out the power of the weapon known as a Spirit Armament, the phosphorescent energy that swirled around Noah was this power called Shin'i.
Noah's guess had indeed been correct.
Just as magicians needed to consume magic power when using magic, Elf Users in this world also needed to consume an energy called Shin'i when commanding spirits.
Naturally, without Shin'i, one could not command spirits or become an Elf User.
When Grayvas examined Noah's body, there had naturally been no way to detect even the slightest aptitude for becoming an Elf User, since there was no Shin'i within him.
However, that did not mean Noah truly lacked the aptitude to become an Elf User. It was merely that, without Shin'i, he could not become one, which was why his aptitude could not be detected.
Yet just now, when Grayvas poured the energy called Shin'i into Noah's body to examine whether he had the qualifications to become an Elf User, Noah's Magic Source absorbed traces of the Shin'i that came from Grayvas.
After all, Noah's Magic Source could absorb and memorize all foreign energies that entered his body and differed from magic power, thereby gaining the ability to transform into those energies.
In other words, in that instant, Noah gained the ability to transform his Magic Source into a Shin'i Source.
Under those circumstances, Noah had already guessed from the start that commanding spirits required some sort of energy akin to magic power or Divine Power. Thus,