Chapter 66: Light and Darkness, Good and Evil

Hidden in the bushes, Canis couldn’t move a muscle as the shockwave spread painfully through her abdomen.

After discovering Arin’s gift for telepathy, Canis had rigorously trained in dark physical magic. One of his defenses, Dark Skin, absorbed impact by enhancing physical resistance. Even a hammer swung by a grown adult would feel like a child’s punch against it.

But the photon cannon caught him off guard—and its destructive power was beyond anything he expected. What truly baffled him was how light, something considered intangible, could carry such physical force.

“Kikiki… You felt that, didn’t you, Canis?”

A muffled voice echoed in his ear. Though the mountain appeared empty, the voice was unmistakably real.

“Harvest… What happened to me?”

“I’m not sure. But what I can sense… is mass. Something with mass hit your abdomen at high speed.”

“Mass? But light has no mass.”

As a battle mage, Canis was well-versed in the study of opposites and understood the theory of photonization.

“Technically, yes. Light has no rest mass. But it does have energy.”

In truth, photons in motion exhibit an incredibly small amount of kinetic mass. This is the same principle behind phenomena like the solar wind.