Chapter 769 - Secret under the Well
There was an “alphabet system”, which all rune crafters needed to learn. As long as one fully mastered the different meanings of every pattern, they wouldn’t have a problem discovering the true effect of composite runes via “reserve engineering”.
However, even if Angor managed to figure out the general effect of the runes, he wasn’t able to recreate them because one also needed to learn the exact process for how runes were drawn, such as the orders of strokes.
For now, he was only going to work on the first task.
It wasn’t easy because the job required an eye for detail. There were also many different patterns that overlapped each other, in which case he had to refer to the “contexts” that surrounded them and pick out the individual strokes one by one.
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A night had passed.
It was still snowing outside. Angor dropped his pen and rubbed his sore arms while looking at the big pile of papers on his desk.
After taking several minutes to fully clear his mind, he began the final calculation.
When searching the ship using a scout puppet, he didn’t have the time to check thoroughly. Now, he wanted to see if there was something he overlooked last time, such as the content inside Lucas’ drawer.
He walked to the desk where he found the logbook and pulled the drawer open.
Apart from the smell of rotten wood, there was a piece of parchment inside the drawer, which seemed to be the same material used in the logbook.