Alastor charges the Lodestone

Inside the laboratory, with many of the vials filled with rieka-embedded blood and the ones with powdered arcanium shimmering the moment they get to finally witness a single inch of light from the lantern he carries with him. It is brief, and soon enough lights up with a flicker of Rieka to active what was already inside the vials.

They all light up, one by one. The lodestone carried in the other hand, Alastor slowly observes the work-in-place plethora of poisons and the like, most based on his own magical force to have their effects applied on all magi that stood against him, or event with him in case the precautions were not properly taken.

This meant he had a small stock of already absorbed Rieka from the past, a single session with Astaria which he used to absorb it from his body and into the very vials which would make his poison. As such, the lodestone was practically ready, even if it was only barely touched by now.

A porcelain basin was covered in mythril,so it would properly channel the magical energies from Alastor's lifeblood and energy into the lodestone. As such, he grabbed three vials; Two of them, filled with his own blood, and the third filled with nigh-powdered Arcanium sheaths. While it wasn't effective for spreading it into the air like he wanted, it was effective for conducting a storage of Rieka.

Both vials of blood, taken previously, were disposed in the basin, filling it nearly entirely; And then, the rieka-charged arcanium mixed with water that rested on the other vial was put together. A glimmer of green energy emitted in the communion of rieka-charged water and blood, causing a smirk to spread through the Adjudicator's face.

How he missed this sensation.

To finally exert his own alchemy again, in a subject that wasn't as ordinary as most things he used to do were. Both hands held the Lodestone, and slowly, it was drenched in the rieka-drenched bloody substance. Ofcourse, it was absorbing, but at such a rate that it would not be feasible, or...

Even useful.

Luckily enough, Alastor was one who was well versed in the art of Energy magic. The rieka around his hands were called to coalesce upon the Adjudicator's fingers, slowly removed from their properly absorbed forms and condensing as pure, unbridled energy in the lodestone's surface.

His own circuitry lit up, using himself as a method to input it deeper inside. The leftover energy from the many cases were too strong for even him to predict properly, but he needed to put it inside. And as such, the Adjudicator digs his fingers inside slowly...

Soon enough, a burst of energy digs through his fingers, leaving and jumping towards the lodestone. Some escapes back into the pool of blood and arcanium, to which it quickly coalesces back. His circuitry already felt the consequences of a single burst, aching slightly.

But it was still far from his limit.

It happened again; Rieka was -forced- inside of the lodestone, pushing out whatever resistance it found in order to charge it. The energy coalescing around its surface slowly focused on two poles, dictated by the Oscuri's hands forcing them to do so.

It was akin to charging a battery, and nothing more. Alastor's Rieka pushed once again its way inside, a brief burst now coming out of the saturated metal, hitting him in the face and dissipating into the air. But it wasn't enough. Instead, simply rotating it slightly, Alastor dug yet another few holes into the lodestone, pushing his energy through it.

The same procedure was repeated, leaving the Adjudicator panting; It was obviously less than comfortable. If not for the storage of mana and the like that he had done a few years back, Alastor likely could never have fully charged the lodestone.

Now, it was only time for him to deliver it back.
(Alastor G. Vishkar)