"Have you seen something like this before?"
Although Damian was excited to absorb the Blood Stone, the reality that hit him was that the conventional absorption method didn't work.
It wasn't that the Aura hooks weren't strong enough to reel them in. Rather, both the Blood Stone and the Aura hooks treated the other as if they didn't exist.
Normally, the intangible Aura would have been able to pull out the intangible energy inside, but things didn't seem to register well this time.
'Does this bloodline information fall out of the energy category?'
With only guesses to build his thoughts on, Damian could only fall back on Iris, hoping that she happened to glimpse something similar in the Duke's house.
{...I'm not sure. All I can say is that it has a high value. Back then, they said that the best Magic Stones were the ones that looked the most beautiful!}