Valyr could not believe what he was reading.
When he first heard his other self tell him that he got a skill that replicated what the shards did, he unsurprisingly felt both shock and disbelief from it.
As far as he could remember, it took a number of random coincidences and chance encounters just for him to find the door that eventually led him towards the first Shard of Defiance.
After he had gotten all the other shards and left the inheritance, he then had to scour through the entire Four Pillars' Inheritance one more time just to get his hands on a skill that would allow him to willingly make use of the shards' power.
…And that was only after Vaughn told him it was possible to willingly make use of its properties.
Yet, compared to all the hardships he'd gone through for that skill, Ataraxia was actually able to get his hands on a skill that did something similar just by ascending to Rank 5?
