Yu Lin Bloodhawk had long since absorbed and refined the source power of Malygos, King of the Blue Dragons. This was not his first time examining its state, either. Since Shidewa and Guluoge had told him to feel its power carefully, they must have had their reasons.
The source power he had absorbed was different from the Infernal energy the Elf Rangers in the current experiment were absorbing. That was merely pure fel energy, not source power.
Yu Lin Bloodhawk's spiritual consciousness rested quietly within his sea of energy. Through it, he sensed a spectral blue flowing through that sea, something close to "emptiness"-not blue as a color, but the cold stillness of arcane magic power itself. He could feel that the power was not dormant. Instead, it pulsed at an extremely slow, almost arrogant rhythm, as though answering a summons from somewhere unknown.
What was resonating with this energy? What was drawing the magic power within him into these tremors? Yu Lin Bloodhawk wanted to find that unknown source, but its elusive presence was like a white horse flashing past a narrow gap. Whenever he noticed it, it vanished in an instant.
"Your heart has never stayed in this world. Or rather, deep down, you treat this world more like a game, and yourself as nothing more than a player who has entered it. That's why you've never truly become part of this world. If you can't become part of it, you'll never settle down and truly understand its rules. And without that, reaching Legendary is out of the question."
Yu Lin Bloodhawk recalled what Old Charlatan had once told him. At that moment, he seemed to grasp something. Game, world, player, becoming part of the world-those key phrases kept cycling through his consciousness.
*Yes! Was he treating this