Fiendish Creation
After Ves exerted a bit more effort to capture his overreacting sister, he shook her mechanical cat avatar a few more times and managed to squeeze a more liberal quantity of spare death energy from her this time.
He tossed the offended cat aside after he extracted enough value from her and quickly brought the gathered death energy closer to the statue.
Of course, that did not do much in itself aside from harming what little life that Ves had imbued in the creation of a totem.
Ves had already expected this to happen, so he worked quickly to prevent the totem from becoming completely invalid.
He needed to work quickly in order to minimize his losses as much as possible.
"Let's compact this first."
He exerted his considerable spiritual strength to squeeze the gas-like free-floating death energy into a more compressed crystallized form.