I tuned out the prickling gaze of the Demon Wolf when I began to circulate the mana inside of my body, slowly and carefully guiding it from my palms up into my arms, making sure to keep it steady and consistent no matter where it was.
Whenever the mana - now mixed with the herbal paste that had been smeared across my palms - rushed through my veins and through the mana pathways beneath the places that had been marked by Leone I was embraced by a deep chill that swirled around my bones.
This was probably what had pained Anput during her time in the array, the element she wielded rearing its head against her this time as it 'attacked' her body, putting her through a trial that was going to hurt just as much as it was going to benefit her.
Where she probably had felt an impossible heat that was burning her from the inside out I was feeling the opposite; a deep, debilitating chill that numbed me completely before it came back with a roaring vengeance as it inflicted a cold burn on me.
