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This doesn't make sense Abominations need to expend light just to use normal darkness, Tezka using decay should be straining his cores to a massive extent.
True however he's not a perfect hybrid he hast two fallen cores that should balance each other. His warg core makes it possible for him to use the light element again allowing him the use of darkness, light and apparently decay Magic. We've also learned that for example vampires can use the light element but still consumes a lot of energy forcing them to feed. The black core however can't process the light element at all making it necessary for the warg core to provide that energy. I can imagine that that's possible, the cost should still be quite high though especially considering that it was a tier five spell and that he can't use invigoration. So it's quite dangerous to use decay magic since if he abuses his warg core he might lose as it almost happened to Xenagrosh if I remember correctly. (sorry for the long text and bad language but I really enjoyed the topic/discussion and english ist my Seconds language đ
catch1:he's not an abomination he's a hybrid. this was already explained đ
We better get an explanation on either the amount of money used to hire all these mercenaries or the influence needed to control/use them. People the amount of people that has died from this raid is almost unbelievable. These are all mages. The underworld spies didnt leak intel either with all these people as well? I understand the novel is fantasy but some logic must be kept.