Chapter 229 - Growing Strength
Two days later, inside Angor’s soundproofed training room.
Angor was trying to construct a spell model in his mind space, which looked like a simple “W” when observed from one side.
More mana was drawn from his mana pool as the model was perfected, which only took several seconds.
The shape of a crescent moon showed up on Angor’s palm, and it began to attract wind element from the environment.
He pushed his hand forward and triggered the mana, thus allowing the inconspicuous wind blade to be released.
The blade reached the touchstone in an instant and created a shallow cut on it.
“A single wind blade isn’t so powerful…” Angor inspected the cut on the stone. “But this is not the original Wind Blade cantrip.”
The difficulty of the rune was plain to see. From a quick look, Angor believed that this one required a hundred times more work compared to “Rune of Sharpen”.
Or… this was not a rune at all. It was a magic array!
Runes and magic arrays were both used for enchantment, but they were of completely different levels. A magic array consisted of multiple functioning runes. Also, unlike a single rune, a magic array allowed the user to actively trigger its effect.
For example, when Angor applied Rune of Sharpen to his scythe, it only improved the tool’s sharpness, which was a passive effect.
With the correct magic array, he could make the scythe release energy and freeze up everything it connected with, or toss the weapon in the air and fly away while standing on the weapon. With proper materials, he could even make the weapon into a kind of space storage.
There were various magic arrays with different effects. The effects were still weaker than the result of synthesis, but they could also achieve something unique.
For alchemists, rune enchantment was all about memorizing runes, getting used to them, and recreating the runes.
Magic array required more than a memory. The process of making a magic array asked for the absolute concentration of an alchemist. Looking away, even just a little, would cause fatal flaws in key points. Besides, one had to also comprehend how different runes could work with each other.
When drawing runes, Angor could “cheat” with his tablet by copying runes with the help of projections. With enough practice, he could memorize them and proceeded to draw runes on himself without using the tablet. Also, drawing smaller runes due to limited space on items was not really hard for him.
For magic arrays, however… Angor was not sure he could do the same.
He checked “Prelude to Elimination” which contained six runes again. Angor thought “Rune of Sharpen” or “Rune of Frost” looked complicated enough, but they were just child’s play compared to what he was looking at now.
He used his tablet to project the pattern of “Prelude to Elimination” onto a piece of paper.
The 1:1 projection of the magic array looked like random ink spread on paper. Angor moved his eyes closer to the paper, and everything still appeared to be a black mess.
From the “messy blackness”, he could barely see some really thin, congested lines which were drawn next to each other.