rune hunter

Chapter 67 Runes - Life and Death

After grooming and changing into a new school uniform, the girl's mental state also recovered, and she sat next to El and read honestly without messing around, which made El secretly relieved.

"The sequence of runes consists of seven cycles. In the current mainstream view, the core of the first cycle is consciousness, while the core of the second cycle is matter. The ancient rune master Dominican believes that the first cycle is one's own recognition of the world. Knowing that the second cycle is the world’s perception of itself. Every rune master has a different understanding of the rune rules, but no matter what, only when his runes form a cycle can he be called a true rune master ..."

Time flew by unconsciously, and after reading a long paragraph of text, Laurana stopped to take a sip of water, and took a peek at the rune that appeared in El's hand.She noticed that the runes weren't actually from El's hand, but rose and fell around the black ring on his finger.

When El was still awake, Master Stephen suddenly showed a strong interest in him, and investigated his past history in detail. It was only then that Laurana was involved, but this inconspicuous ring It escaped the eyes of the great alchemist.

Now from the appearance, this ring must be a magical item, but its weirdness is that even if it is right under the eyelids, it cannot feel any fluctuations in magic power.There is nothing to do with it other than runes.

Ancient items or legendary treasures?The lonely and boring days made the girl's heart of gossip burn like a flame, but even though she exhausted all the identification methods she had learned, she still came to only one conclusion-that is an ordinary piece of black iron.

"This is the only relic left to me by my adoptive father. I didn't think it was worth two coppers before." El played with the ring, recalling the memories of the mountain village, feeling a little heavy.

"Perhaps your adoptive father is a rune master." Laurana stretched out her finger and touched the embodied rune curiously. Feeling a chill between her fingers, she quickly withdrew her hand with a cry of surprise.

"With his lazy personality, if he had such a great ability, he would have enjoyed a good life long ago. Why would he eat and wait to die in the ravine." El sighed, and passed the ring over: "If you want, you can borrow it." I'll give you two days to play with, anyway, I'm a rough person and I can't figure out the principle of this thing."

"Just lent it to me, really stingy." Laurana smiled lightly and shook her head, but did not take it: "The teacher can't even see the real thing, it must be a very advanced magic item. Just because he didn't see it, you It’s even more important to hide it, maybe it will be used at any time.”

"The current function is limited to the realization of the runes." El looked at the four runes in his hand with a bitter face: "The reason why these two runes can answer my call is probably related to my It's about escaping from the dead."

"You mean to say that the experience of escaping from death this time gave you a clear understanding of life and death, and that's why you got the response from these two runes?" Laurana's mind turned, and she connected The words recorded in the book immediately came to a conclusion. "The book says that most rune masters can only build the first cycle, mainly because they were originally spellcasters, and their cognition of the world is not a problem, but their cognition is very difficult. Warriors like you who don't rely on magic , but more suitable for the second cycle."

El nodded. In fact, this is indeed the case. Except for the original insight rune, the other runes he obtained belong to the second cycle. Now that I think about it, it is no coincidence.

"The seven runes of the second cycle are life, growth, love, dream, sacrifice, harvest, and death, and I now own three-sevenths of them. It looks beautiful, but it is bought by life." , God knows what conditions those other runes need."

"Don't be too happy, the materialization of runes is just the first step you take." Laurana knocked on the desk with a puffed face: "We haven't finished reading the general introduction of this book, let alone every book. The runes are discussed in detail."

"Even if you finish reading it, I may not understand it. Didn't the author of the book also say that everyone's understanding of runes is very different." El shrugged. "For example, for this life rune, everyone's understanding of life is different. Even Her Royal Highness, the nun, may not dare to say that she fully understands the essence of life. And my only understanding of it is probably that day. The desire to survive in the night, and so the abilities expressed by my runes tend toward that."

"It sounds amazing, why don't you show it to me?" Laurana bewitched excitedly.The girl's eyes were full of curiosity, and her knowledge of this aspect was limited to the book she had read in front of her. The further she read, the more she could feel the mysterious power of runes. It's a pity that she didn't have this knowledge herself. talent.

"I just mastered it yesterday, and the effect is not as obvious as you imagined." El said modestly, took out the sleeping insect eggs from his bosom, put them on the table, and tore off the colored silk thread wrapped around them.

"The teacher said that these silk threads are a seal for the eggs, otherwise the sleeping larvae will subconsciously absorb nutrients, and if there is not enough supplement, they will quickly weaken and die." Laurana hastily reminded.

"It doesn't matter, I did the experiment last night." El said nonchalantly, he picked up the candlestick, and poked his arm hard with the spike of the candle, and blood flowed out immediately.The warm blood dripped on the eggs and penetrated quickly.

"Ah!" Laurana screamed subconsciously, covering her mouth and widening her eyes: "Are you crazy? You actually want to feed the groundwalker larvae with your own flesh and blood?"

"Master Stephen said that Little Langa saved my life with her 'adrenaline', and now I will feed her blood, and we will be true blood partners." El said happily.

"But the focus is not on her. Look carefully at my wound."

Laurana took a deep breath, calmed down and stared, only to be surprised again.During the few seconds that the two of them were talking, the wound on El's arm stopped bleeding by itself and was still healing at a speed visible to the naked eye!

"Fast regeneration? Isn't that the troll's racial talent?" Laurana was shocked and didn't know what to say for a while.

"Maybe in the eyes of those magicians, runes are a kind of magical power, but in my world... well, although I don't know the true meaning of this word, since it says so in the book, let's borrow it."

El waved his arm, feeling that the wound had completely healed: "In my 'world cognition', I am a beast, and runes are my survival talent."

"Each rune will be expressed as the innate ability that is most conducive to survival. The insight rune brings enhanced perception, the growth rune brings wild violence, the life rune brings rapid regeneration, and the death rune brings I haven't experimented with the ability, but it feels similar."

"If a beast has these abilities, it's indeed terrifying." Laurana nodded, but the expression on her face gradually became serious: "But if your understanding of runes is limited to this, it's too narrow. No matter how powerful the beast is, it will eventually be hunted by humans, and these seemingly powerful abilities are not worth mentioning in front of the silver-ranked powerhouse."

"Silver rank?" El frowned: "I've heard of this word before, but I don't know the specific meaning."

"It's normal if you haven't heard of it." Laurana waved her hands as if it was a matter of course: "Generally speaking, everyone only knows that fighters are divided into one to five levels, which was first invented by the mercenary guild. Because things are simple and easy to understand, they are widely spread.”

"I've heard of that." El couldn't help laughing, remembering what his old man had said.Although in his opinion, this kind of classification is too low-level and naive, but the guys in the Jupiter firm and the rookie mercenaries of the Xi tribe took it very seriously. At that time, they introduced themselves...

"The reason why you think that kind of classification is funny is because of your own strength. But in the eyes of the real strong, your level is also ridiculous." Laurana poured cold water on El's head mercilessly.

"When I was in my hometown, I was already a big hunter conferred by the lord." El muttered unconvinced.

"That's just a chess piece with a slightly higher value." Laurana folded her arms and snorted coldly, "There's an old saying called the blood of black iron, the power of bronze, do you know what it means?"

"Civilian fighters below the fifth level are all classified as black iron ranks. Soldiers of this rank are worthless and can only be used as cannon fodder on the real battlefield. Their only value is to shed their own blood , just consume the opponent's stamina."

(End of this chapter)