How's that possible, Xavier said with a confused expression. He recalled when Asrotth's said no mortal could harness zhin, but now he is saying there's a way to harness it or create something similar?? Xavier could not comprehend what zhin itself was, and now this??
Asrotth, seeing Xavier's expression, decided to explain further. Don't be mistaken, you humans still can't harness zhin, and we made sure of that. "But a being from the 4th dimension created a theory called" "xiy" "Although it was imperfect, and she..... Passed away before she could complete it"
Xavier, noticing the pause before the 'passed away', knew immediately that these gods basically made a form of energy only they could harness and would go to any length to keep it that way, and some lady tries to reform ziy into zhin, of course, she had to go....no, I'm sure she must've shared her formula with someone else. There's a possibility...that they might've killed everyone and everything she had come in contact with, there's a possibility that her world itself might have been wiped out of existence.
Finally understanding how dangerous the being that stood before him was, Xavier felt cold sweat roll down his back. Xavier swallowed a mouthful of saliva; he was scared. Asrotth, as always, cut Xavier's thoughts short and continued with his statement, "I decided to continue her research and perfected it, but I couldn't let it be in pair with zhin, so I removed the most valuable ingredient one has to absorb to complete it and erased any trace of it from all dimensions. Only I know it, and only I can recreate it" Ahhhh, I see, that's why he is willing to share it, knowing fully well that it can never be perfected. Xavier thought.
"Now let's start; I have other things I need to attend to..." Remember, I said ziy is life itself; without ziy, living things or mortals are bound to perish?" Xavier nodded his head to affirm that he did remember. Seeing this, Asrotth continued his explanation. "Ziy is also like a river, ever-flowing; it has no start nor does it have an end. All it does is give life to those who are in need of it and to those who strive to survive. It has no enemies nor does it have a friend. You either learn to harness it, strive to be the best among the best, or get swept away by its current or get killed by those who have learned to harness its full potential.... Ok, then what exactly is "xiy", Xavier asked.
"Absorbing high levels of ziy and gradually compressing it into a small sphere-like object that is xiy" Xavier, who was more confused now, couldn't help but ask, How exactly does it make it more powerful? Asrotth, who saw that his simple explanation was still complex to the being in front of him, could not help but wonder if Xavier was worth his time, but he had to continue. Uham... With a cough, he responded to Xavier's question, "If a mage is that what they are called on your ship? Yes, a mage," Xavier responded. "If a mage was to cast a spell that spell uses up a limited amount of the mage's ziy in his core, limiting the spell's efficiency, but with xiy, it is different. It's —" —pumping one's entire ziy into one spell, making its efficiency higher? Xavier said, completing Asrotth's statement.
With a chill smirk, Asrotth responded, "Actually, no, xiy will not do that since it's incomplete. It would either have no effect or a negative effect on the mage. Take, for instance —" In a split second, Asrotth conjured a simple flame spell, which was extremely hot and powerful, and threw it towards a training doll 50 meters away from where he and Xavier stood. The ball of flame flew almost at the speed of sound and clashed with the doll, burning it almost to ashes in less than a second. Uh...uh... Xavier was speechless; he couldn't comprehend what he had just seen in just two seconds. Asrotth conjured both a spell and a doll, hurled the spell towards the doll, and almost immediately, the doll was turned into ashes.
He had not seen anything like this, nor had he read about anyone on the ship being able to achieve such speed. Would the leaders of the 4 major families be able to pull such a feat?! He did not know their strength nor their capabilities, but he was sure — almost sure that none of them could.....that means this being in front of him was on the same level with the 4 heroes. (One thing that Xavier tended to forget was that Asrotth was far beyond any mortal that has and might ever exist