"Bye!" The Pixie enthusiastically waved her hand while she activated the array, giving the impression they'd knew each other for a long time instead of a few months.
Until a while ago, Awakened had to invest a lot of time and resources to keep their laboratories hidden. They had lived for centuries afraid that an Eldritch might barge in and rob them blind and now they had to welcome the hybrids inside their homes with open arms.
Regular Abominations couldn't practice Forgemastering due to their inability to produce light magic so the only way they had to procure themselves powerful equipment was to steal it from others.
That and the fact that many Awakened positioned their labs above mana geysers made them into the equivalent of a full course meal for an Eldritch.
They would get to steal hundreds of years of magical research, dozens of artifacts, and would get themselves a nice place to crash until the Council forced them on the move.
