The Wizard's Secret Journey

Chapter 247 Rune Points and Runes (4k)

Black Falcon, in the meditation room.

Lynn was focused, carefully observing the core runes of the Flying Serpent Type I and Flying Serpent Type II in front of him.

It took him half a month to finally extract the core runes from the two Black Moon relics two days ago.

For the past two days, Lynn has barely slept a wink, and has even temporarily put aside his daily meditation, focusing all his energy on the two Black Moon runes.

Lynn made some discoveries as a result, but due to the special nature of these two runes, he was not entirely sure.

Fortunately, my own source energy is almost full, and I will have another opportunity to gain insight into the principles of things today.

Lynn sat on the cushion, quietly waiting for his own source energy to accumulate.

About half an hour later, the source energy on the Vision Light Screen finally reached its full capacity.

Lynn took out the magic stone, took a deep breath, and activated the Insightful Realm.

Initially, when Lynn activated his clairvoyance, he mostly used it for specific knowledge. But later, Lynn discovered that the clairvoyance state could not only be used to study individual pieces of knowledge, but also to assist in research like the one he was doing now.

Although the effect is far less than gaining insight into the principles of individual knowledge, it can still greatly improve Lynn's thinking ability.

Without such assistance, Lynn would probably still be studying the first Black Moon relic, with little progress.

Under the influence of his Insightful Talent, Lynn's thinking became sharper than ever before, and the obscure Black Moon Runes in front of him seemed to have their surface haze wiped away, becoming clear.

Lynn observed intently, his mind gradually becoming absorbed in the scene.

After an unknown amount of time, Lynn gradually regained consciousness, and an irrepressible smile appeared on his lips.

He understood the two flying serpent runes in front of him!
'Sure enough, the black moon symbol corresponding to the flying serpent rune is "floating," and both flying serpent runes are like that!'

Lynn had actually discovered this two days ago after successfully extracting the Flying Serpent Core Rune.

But at that time, Lynn was not sure. He studied it for two whole days and still was not sure. Only now, after repeated confirmation through Kui Li, has Lynn finally been able to confirm that the black moon script corresponding to the flying snake rune is Piao.

Moreover, the flying serpent rune is the floating rune, which consists of only this one black moon character.

The reason Lynn had such difficulty in determining that the black moon text corresponding to the flying serpent rune was the floating one was because

That's because in the composition of the second-generation runes of the Traceless series, there are also sub-runes corresponding to the Black Moon text floating.

This sub-rune "Float" is completely different from the flying serpent rune "Float" that Lynn is currently researching.

Even the Serpent Form I rune and the Serpent Form II rune are basically completely different.

If Lynn hadn't accumulated a lot of experience in the study of Black Moon runes, he probably wouldn't have believed that these three runes, which looked completely different in appearance, actually corresponded to the same Black Moon character.

'Now I have found the Black Moon Rune corresponding to Piao, and I have also found the Black Moon Child Rune corresponding to Piao... According to my previous idea, I should be able to use these two research materials to study some knowledge about the Black Moon Child Rune to the Black Moon Rune.'

'But now I've discovered that even the same Black Moon character doesn't necessarily correspond to only one Black Moon rune.'

This also means that there may be more than one sub-rune corresponding to the Black Moon script.

'Therefore, there is more than one Black Moon Rune corresponding to each sub-rune.'

Lynn gradually recovered from his excitement. He thought about the countless permutations and combinations that the uncertainty of this change would bring, and suddenly felt a headache coming on.

After pondering silently for a moment, Lynn first put away the Flying Serpent Type II rune, and then took out a Black Moon rune he had made himself called "Floating".

Although the Black Moon runes, the sub-runes, and then the Black Moon runes all seem to have multiple variations.

However, the only two Black Moon runes and Black Moon runes he currently possesses, both originating from the same Black Moon script, are the Black Moon Sub-rune and the Black Moon rune.

Instead of considering too many complex variations, I decided to focus on studying the examples I already had.

I don't expect to be able to figure out how the Black Moon Rune becomes the Black Moon Rune, but at least I have a chance to understand why the Black Moon Rune can provide the corresponding effect as long as it is powered, while the Black Moon Rune has no effect no matter how much power it is powered.

Lynn continued to immerse herself in her research.

He originally thought it would take him a long time to make progress.

But just two days later, Lynn made a breakthrough.

At first, he was just carefully comparing the Black Moon Rune Floating with the Flying Serpent Type 1 Rune.

Lynn gained almost nothing from this step of the study.

The Black Moon Rune and the Flying Serpent Type 1 Rune do have some similarities.

But there are many more differences.

There are so many different structures that Lynn even finds it difficult to confirm whether this is the essential difference between the Black Moon Rune and the Black Moon Rune.

Lynn tried to add these structures to the Black Moon rune, but couldn't make it have the same effect as the Black Moon rune.

Sub-runes are still just simple "components" and cannot exert the same powerful effect as the "whole" Black Moon rune.

After trying for a long time without success, Lynn took out the Flying Serpent Type II rune.

He first compared the sub-rune Float with the Flying Serpent II, but the result was still no progress.

Afterwards, Lynn compared the two different flying serpent runes again, but still gained very little.

But in the final comparison, Lynn vaguely grasped a certain inspiration.

He began to do more than just compare two different Black Moon runes.

Instead, it compares all three runes.

There are already few similar structures between two different runes, and now with a third, the similarities between the three are reduced to only a small fraction.

Lynn carefully studied this small part of the structure, ruled out the structure of the Black Moon rune itself, and finally successfully discovered a structure that he called the rune point!

The so-called rune points are actually the 'energy nodes' structure contained in the Black Moon runes.

This structure is exceptionally complex and condensed, and it exists both in sub-rune floats and in complete rune floats.

Moreover, although it has a complex structure, there are not many types.

Lynn concluded that there are a total of 9 types of runes.

There are a total of 11 rune points in the Black Moon Rune Floating.

In contrast, the Flying Serpent Type 1 rune, which also corresponds to the Black Moon text, has a full 25 rune points!
The Flying Serpent II rune even has 26 rune points!
This shows that there is a significant difference in the number of runes in the sub-rune compared to the number of runes in the complete Black Moon rune.

To further verify this discovery, Lynn continued to examine the other Black Moon runes in his hand.

Lynn initially failed to find rune points in other Black Moon runes, a discovery that almost made him completely overturn his previous conclusions.

Later, it suddenly occurred to him that perhaps the rune points corresponding to each type of Black Moon script were different. Sure enough, after considering this, Lynn quickly discovered similar rune point structures among the other Black Moon runes!

The three Black Moon runes that make up the second-generation Wuji runes are Float, Light, and Speed.

Among them, Float has 11 runes, Light has 13, and Speed ​​has 8.

In total, the second generation of Wuji has 32 rune points, which is very close to the number of rune points of the two flying snake runes.

Moreover, although both the Traceless II and the Flying Serpent Belt are level 1 witchcraft tools, the Traceless II is a mid-level level 1 witchcraft tool, which is higher than the low-level level 1 Flying Serpent Belt.

To some extent, this may explain why the second generation of Wuji has slightly more rune points than the Flying Serpent Belt.

As for the healing rune, it contains a total of 18 rune points, which is less than the number of rune points in the second generation of the Untraceable and the Flying Serpent Belt, but still much more than ordinary sub-runes.

Considering that it is only a level 0 witchcraft item, such a number of rune points seems quite normal.

'From this, we might roughly conclude that the number of rune points is related to the rune's strength and whether it is a sub-rune.'

Furthermore, Lynn overturned one of his initial conjectures—that the strength of the Black Moon Rune was directly proportional to the number of Black Moon characters it contained.

The floating runes contained in the Flying Serpent Belt correspond to only one Black Moon script, just like the healing runes, but it can reach the strength of the first tier.

Of course, this does not mean that the strength of the Black Moon Rune is unrelated to the number of Black Moon characters it contains.

This only indicates the existence of special cases like the flying serpent rune.

This is similar to witchcraft tools. Generally speaking, the more complex the structure, the more powerful the witchcraft tool. However, there are also witchcraft tools with very simple structures but great power.

'The Black Moon runes, in some ways, share many similarities with the system of witchcraft tools.'

Now that Lynn understood all this, his next plan naturally came to mind.

That is to try adding rune points to the sub-runes.

Based on current research, it is clear that the number of rune points is a significant difference between the Black Moon Rune and the Black Moon Child Rune.

Lynn could boldly guess that, with the addition of the corresponding rune points, the Black Moon Rune might be able to transform into the Black Moon Rune!

The idea sounds simple, but proving it requires a lot of effort.

Lynn could only try them one by one until all the possibilities were exhausted.

However, this time, luck was on Lynn's side.

In just one week, Lynn successfully created a Black Moon Rune!
This rune was created by adding three rune points to the sub-rune "Float".

After adding these three rune points, Lynn attempted to infuse the newly created Black Moon rune with magic.

A moment later, Lynn felt a fluctuation from the Black Moon Rune, followed by a gentle force enveloping his entire body, lifting his feet off the ground and making him float gently into the air.

"Success!!"

Lynn's face lit up with a radiant smile, and he laughed heartily for quite a while before stopping.

In other words, the Black Falcon's meditation room had excellent soundproofing; otherwise, Samuel might have wondered if Lynn had some kind of problem.

Taking a deep breath, Lynn silently felt the power brought by the new rune.

The effect is very simple; it just makes me float. There's almost no adjustable range; I can only hover like this.

As for its strength, it's only at the medium level of 0 rings, not even comparable to healing runes.

'However, the Healing Rune is a high-level witchcraft item with 0 rings, and it has 4 more rune points than this new Floating Rune, so it's normal for it to be a bit stronger.'

'And the mana consumption... is extremely low, much lower than ordinary levitation spells...'

'...'

Lynn carefully tested the various effects of the new floating rune, gradually gaining a better understanding of its effects, while also raising a new question.

While the number of rune dots can indicate the strength of a rune, it doesn't seem to be a reliable indicator of whether a rune is a child rune.

'After all, the sub-rune 'Lightness' that makes up the second-generation Traceless Rune has a full 13 rune points, only one less than the New Floating Rune.'

Lynn carefully examined the new floating rune in his hand, feeling a surge of excitement.

'However, I added three new rune points, which transformed the sub-runes into complete Black Moon runes.'

In other words, the three rune points I added are the key to transforming the Black Moon rune into the Black Moon rune!

Lynn flipped his hand and took out mithril, examining the new floating runes, and copied the three rune points he had just added one by one.

He looked at it for a while, then suddenly shook his head:
These rune points were present in the original Black Moon Rune, and I also tried adding the same number of rune points, but I couldn't transform the Black Moon Rune into a complete Black Moon Rune.

'From this, we can infer that the dots I added were nothing special, and the number of dots added was not a decisive factor.'

The real reason why the sub-rune transformed into the complete Black Moon rune was how I added the rune points.

Specifically, this refers to the location of newly added dots, and even their type.

Lynn examined the new "Floating" rune in his hand; it was a pale silver rune that resembled a miniature disc.

At this moment, Lynn was staring at the miniature disc and could clearly see the position of all the runes, including the three runes he had just added.

In a daze, these 14 symbolic dots echoed each other and linked together, forming a complex three-dimensional structure resembling a witchcraft model!
Lynn gazed at the exquisite structure, completely mesmerized, his thoughts drifting like waves on a boundless sea.

He gradually regained consciousness several minutes later.

The so-called Black Moon Rune is essentially an unfinished sorcery model. It can be pieced together with other sub-runes to form a complete model, thereby exerting a powerful effect.

'The Black Moon Rune, on the other hand, is the complete model.'

Lynn's eyes gleamed with excitement, barely concealing it.

The key to creating a Black Moon rune, or a complete Black Moon rune, lies in the rune points.

'Those external rune structures are just flesh and blood; only the rune dots are the skeleton!'

Once the skeleton is built, the skin and flesh will naturally grow.

'I used to study them together, so of course I couldn't find any patterns!'

As soon as this thought arose, Lynn had a sudden inspiration and summoned the Insightful Light Curtain.

A new line of text quietly appeared in the Secret Techniques section—

Black Moon Rune (Beginner)

(End of this chapter)