Valor
"Why haven't our cores returned?" Alaric grumbled. He had been trying to do the Flow, the breathing technique that takes mana inside his lungs and breaks it down to arcane in his core.
Belialthorn started and checked his and he found nothing where his core should be. He shuddered, he didn't even know it hadn't returned. "Why? We finished the trial."
"It's still having effect I'll say. It'll take some time to wear off completely." Kat said. "Don't worry, your cores are safe. It's there but you can't feel it."
Weirdly, it's there but they can't feel or do the Flow with it, they really put a lot of thought into the trial defense.
Rota was frowning, rubbing her chest as she did. She was thinking about the Eldritch and what the guardians had said. "What did the guardians mean by saying they hope our Eldritch Crowns won't return to Twilight soon? It sounded like a threat."