The first was a staff worthy of a high magus. Aurora's Heart.
The shaft was carved from a pale, silver-blue wood, deeply etched with delicate frost runes that actively expelled a faint, chilling mist. But the crowning glory was the Butterfly's Frozen Heart at its peak. The legendary core pulsed with trapped aurora borealis—shifting waves of violet, sea-green, and pale blue.
As Elise reached out and wrapped her gloved hand around the haft, the aurora light violently flared, recognizing her mana signature.
"It amplifies your baseline ice affinity by roughly forty percent," Vex explained, watching the frost spread down the staff. "Your [Glacial Lance] is going to hit like a siege engine. Your [Mana Bolts] will now flash-freeze on impact instead of just providing concussive force. I also wired a passive cooling loop into the runes—you can maintain your Frost Golem in super-heated environments without the sublimation issues you had in the Tower of Ash."
