Chapter 537: Rune Breath Secret Realm (1)
[The Life of Runes (Secrets)]
[Limited Access: Rune Breath must be awakened]
[Cost: 3,000,000 (F) Coins]
Sylas stood in the first door, gazing ahead with a calm expression. He seemed to have never been so focused before, and his comprehension of Runes was quickly getting fuller and sharper.
Without the influence of the System Cities, the Runes of Earth, at least in this region, were healing somewhat.
It seemed impossible for them to turn all the way back to what they had once been, but the small changes alone made Sylas feel what he should from Rune Soul with much more clarity. This left him confused in part, though.
If there was such a drastic change between a partially healed and unhealed Earth, then why didn't he feel this difference so clearly while he was in the Sylph Dungeon? Wasn't it located off Earth?n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
It was either that that location was influenced by the connection it formed with Earth... or Earth wasn't the only world targeted by this figure in the background.
Sylas didn't find this to be too surprising. Considering the odd occurrences that took place after he left the Sylph Dungeon, and his run-in with the Sylph prince he had replaced for the event, it was clear that the Sylphs very clearly weren't a single cohesive power.
Someone had tried to target him and suffered for it, and there were likely others that didn't take too kindly to their interference.
The question was... just which of those factions had the upper hand, and how could he take advantage of it?
These questions, though, were too far from him for now. He instead just basked in the clarity of the Runes. They communicated with him with much greater strength now.
As he moved through the doors one by one, he took his time. He didn't want to accidentally miss the core purpose of his Secret Realm like he almost had in the World of Runes.
This Rune Breath Secret Realm was truly no different; it too held a profound truth, and the challenges were much more taxing on Sylas. It took him an entire hour just to pass through the first door.
If Rune Enlightenment was gaining the instinct for what a Rune could do just by seeing it, Rune Breath was a step further, building up on the first three stages to create a holistic feel for Runes.
It was said that the "Breath" of the title Rune Breath referred to the life of the Rune, and some often mistook that for a Rune Master breathing life into a Rune. However, this wasn't quite accurate because the entire hidden truth of this Secret Realm was that...
However, the configuration that Sylas settled on...
WHOOOSH!
The Runes trembled as the last one snapped into place.
The four core Runes, as though they had been infused with magnets, snapped together, forming a Frankenstein Rune that spun once and then sucked the surrounding Runes into it.
SHHOOO.
A blinding light echoed out, and when Sylas' vision cleared, he was standing on the white, cloudy path outside.
Still, his gaze was unfocused. He absentmindedly walked to the next door to find a five by five grid waiting for him.
He stared at it for a long while, but this time, he wasn't calculating anything.
Sylas knew that he was missing something. If he continued to calculate like this, he would eventually succeed, but it would take months to make it to the end.
What would he do when he reached a ten by ten grid?
This five by five grid was easier, and it would only take him half an hour because it had a core Rune he could make use of. But the even grids would take him months by the time he got to
ten by ten.
He didn't have that kind of time.
But that didn't make sense. Why did a core make a difference?
Unless...
"I see..."
Sylas' green irises blazed with a furious light.