After gaining an understanding of the Gift orbs' structure, Ivette extracted the Gift orbs from the remaining two cultists as well.
Because the Evil God had remotely shut off their power, these gray orbs had lost their luster and looked like ordinary spherical magic crystals, nothing special.
"What is this, Teacher?" Lucia leaned closer curiously.
"An Evil God's Gift. It is additional power, but also the strings used to control a puppet." Ivette glanced at her and handed it over. "Want to feel it?"
"Ugh!" Lucia hurriedly backed away and said as if facing a great enemy, "N-no!"
Ivette smiled. She had not intended to give the thing to Lucia anyway. Although she could now create and bestow the power of Gifts, it required the recipient to have sufficiently devout faith in the Silver Witch. However, the power of a Gift was fixed and could not continuously grow. Moreover, after receiving one, it would affect the recipient's original magical growth, causing their cultivation speed to plummet.
Therefore, only those without talent or strength were suited to gaining this sort of fixed enhancement. Those with talent should still follow the proper path.
Furthermore, creating the power of a Gift was also extremely costly.
It consisted of three layers.
The outermost layer required a large amount of Faith Element and determined how much magic power it could contain. With a sufficiently massive investment, it could even reach 10,000 points—the level of an Archmage. That was equivalent to creating an artificial Archmage.
The middle layer was the rune layer, which was precisely Ivette's specialty: Rune Compilation. It determined what innate spells the recipient could gain, and was very similar to the Bloodmark Secret Art of the Xite Kingdom and the Active Rune Groups of Black Tower Pharmaceuticals.
The innermost layer was a core