'Did he just rip her mana core out of her body?' Lith asked, not believing his own eyes.
'Yes, I mean no.' Solus didn't know how to reply.
'Pick one, dammit!'
'No, he didn't. Her core was orange, not yellow. What's terrifying is that after locating the substance that generated the vortex, Manohar exploited its effects to move it all to the same spot before extracting it.
'What we have just seen was him collecting the vortex after enveloping it in several layers of life force and mana. The sphere is not her core, but it resembles it because it's made of that poor woman's life essences.'
"Did you just kill her?" Jirni had no idea what had happened, yet she knew that no matter what the answer was, she wasn't going to like it.
"Of course. Because of these stupid arrays, I couldn't store the sample inside my dimensional amulet. The next best thing was to collect the sample together with enough life force to prevent it from degrading, and that's what I did." Manohar shrugged.
