Kobold Wizard's Journal

Chapter 464 Origin and Runes

Familiar pages turned before his eyes, as if he had rediscovered the feeling from the past. Ruger held his breath, full of anticipation, until the thick page was successfully turned, and the corners of his expectant mouth finally curled up in a relaxed smile.

A long-lost feeling, and a slight dizziness surged up my head.

Ruge slammed the book shut with a loud bang, startling Mahama, who looked at him in surprise.

But Ruger wasn't in the mood to talk to the big guy. He gave a sheepish smile and buried his head in his book again.

That thick page no longer seemed like a simple book page, but a stone slab. On the hard material, there was only a simple symbol. Since it was two pages that were folded open, it should be said that it was two stone slabs that could be pieced together when flattened. Luger gradually discovered some details. Only when the two pages were flattened could the simple symbol be complete. And the degree of dizziness was different depending on the angle at which the pages were opened. He slowly opened the pages again and felt his own state.

He still vividly remembered the scene where the Black Book had caused the heads of several kobolds to explode.

Perhaps the correct approach would be to start by turning the pages of this slate from a small angle, but Ruger wanted to engage with the learning process more directly and comprehensively, to confront it head-on, rather than just lifting a corner of the veil.

This world is so ever-changing, and there are so many geniuses and talented people, even people who are thousands of years old can be called little guys.

Lost in thought, Luger finally managed to overcome his dizziness and lay the black book flat on his lap.

Apart from a simple symbol, there is no textual explanation.

Ruger suppressed his dizziness and tried to examine the symbol. With just one glance, a wealth of information flooded his mind and flowed through his heart.

It's as if this simple symbol tells a whole story.

After becoming a wizard, the ultimate goal after reaching the third ring is to condense a point of origin in the mental space. In other words, condensing the point of origin is the goal. Becoming a second-ring wizard or a third-ring wizard is just a secondary process. Another way to describe condensing the point of origin is to gather oneself. This process of gathering oneself to condense the point of origin is the most effective training for mental power. The point wizard is the pinnacle of the third ring, which is also the limit for low-level wizards.

Gathering one's own origin is merely a stage goal, or rather, a preparation that begins from the moment one becomes a wizard apprentice. All of this preparation is for fusing runes—not the runes in meditation, but runes that are ubiquitous yet not easily seen. They are found in various parts of the world, perhaps in the corner of a greasy table in a tavern, or perhaps in the raging flames in an ultimate perilous place that even high-level wizards find difficult to reach.

These runes, which can only be understood intuitively and are difficult to describe, are also called world runes by wizards.

What the Black Book is teaching Ruger now is how to capture, see, and feel those runes.

Of course, it's still too early for him.

By gathering one's own essence and then fusing it with a world rune, one can transcend the limits of a third-ring wizard and become a fourth-ring wizard, thus entering the ranks of true high-level extraordinary beings.

What Luger needs to do now is simply to use the process of condensing the origin point to enhance his mental power while creating a pair of eyes.

The content of that symbol can be roughly summarized as follows: in the mental space, during the process of condensing the origin point, create an eye, an eye that can capture the world's runes.

Most meditation practices go through a similar phase during this period, with practitioners beginning to create things that enhance perception.

The term "eyes" is merely a description based on Ruger's understanding; after all, he only saw a general direction, and he might not be able to fully grasp the specifics until he became a third-circle wizard.

Ruger looked at the fur on his body again. These things might be more useful to him than he had imagined. As he learned more, he gained a new understanding of the things around him. The highly spiritual fur could make it easier for spiritual energy to gather around him, allowing the light of spirituality to shine on him forever.

The Black Book mentions that creating those eyes, as well as encountering and perceiving the world's runes, all depend on spirituality. Spirituality gradually ceases to be such an indescribable abstract thing, but rather a kind of harmony—the harmony between scenery and objects, the harmony between people and the world. Although this statement can only describe a part of spirituality, it has given Ruger many new ideas.

As Luger looked at it, he drifted into a daze, and the black book was closed again.

Simply looking at this symbol is a process of exercising one's mental strength.

Ruger thought for a moment, then took out the Seed of Flesh and Blood's notebook, flipping through it randomly to keep it open. When he felt dizzy, he would look at the notebook to recover, and when he felt better, he would pick up the Black Book.

so repeatedly.

However, it wasn't always ideal or efficient, because he was always a little dizzy when he first picked up the notebook, and sometimes he would get so engrossed in reading it that he would lose track of time and still be holding the notebook even after he had calmed down.

This guy, who unknowingly died in the shape of a suitcase, was extremely dedicated to this spell and even collected and studied a lot of information from his predecessors.

He had a complete set of ideas about this spell, and each step was roughly verified based on the information of his predecessors.

After reading through several notebooks, Ruger gained a deeper understanding of this spell.

The notes mainly focused on a type of research in the early stages: some people could be infected with the blood of the Corrupted Giant, such as modified bodies. These were humans who survived the contamination of the Corrupted Giant's blood. They were people whose bodies were decaying throughout their lives, but the vigorous vitality they received from the giants made them live longer than ordinary people. These people were encountered by wizards and brought into the laboratory for research and enhancement. Some bloodline wizards even transplanted and modified them as a bloodline to complement certain spells.

The notes state that this constitution is well-suited for the Solidification of Flesh Seed spell, which allows one to amplify their infectivity and better control the target after assimilating them.

That guy even fantasized in his notes about how he could devour the targets he assimilated, thereby accumulating power to become a resurrected Corrupted Giant, and have the opportunity to become a high-ranking wizard. After all, according to the records, the Corrupted Giant was a strange creature that only a fourth-circle wizard could barely defeat in a forbidden land.

After repeating this process several times, Ruger finally couldn't take it anymore. He stopped looking through his notes and began to meditate to recover whenever he stopped reading the black book.

Over and over again, I simply broke free from the cycle of interspersed note-reading and switched to a different kind of cycle.

After persisting for several days, Ruger finally mastered the first stage of meditation when he heard a sound coming from Valin's room. With careful observation, after a simple round of attempts, the Silent Seal that was slowly rotating in his mental space seemed to have shrunk a little bit, but upon closer inspection, it seemed that it had not shrunk at all, it was just a psychological suggestion.

As the noise Valin made grew louder and louder.

Luger also stopped looking, stood with Mahama, scratched his head, and stopped worrying about it.

"Ready?" Ruger asked softly without turning his head.

"Ready."

Hearing Rug's strange tone, Mahama was taken aback for a moment, but finally nodded.

(End of this chapter)