I passed through the spongy golden layer and immediately felt its effects. It only had one effect, that is absorption.
It will absorb any energy that it will find.
It worked like a stealth artifact, but stronger and quicker. It is having been activated to save normal people, so there is no way, it would let energy spread and let it kill them.
It is going to make the fighting very difficult. To me, it will be beneficial, with some drawbacks.
Unlike most of them, inheritance, my energy attacks are compacted to my weapons. They didn't cover the vast area around it; not to mention the tiny bit of rule-bending power in them will stop it from getting absorbed.
The disadvantage of it is quite simple.
It will force these cultists to prefer attacks that increase physical power. I am weaker in dealing with them than energy, but still better than everyone else.
