95 Crafting (2/2)

Raven finished looking through his time table, he placed the book back to his spatial ring and looked at the back of his right hand.

Activating his ocular technique, he was able to see the marking that the Director placed on it before. The marked followed the outline of a tower sitting on top of a cloud, which is the sign of Heavenly Cloud Institute. When the director stamped this marked on their hands, he told them that this mark would serve as a proof that they are a part of the Genius Class from then on. They set up this security because they are afraid that someone might impersonate as them, stealing their identities to do notorious things.

However, aside from added security, the marks do more than just that. In this mostly invisible marks, sealed a special energy that will be activated upon a time of emergency.

When the individual who bore this mark encountered a dangerous situation and were heavily injured, the sealed energy would act as a distress signal which will alert the guardian elders as well as the director about their situation. They could then use this signal to track their location and send help as soon as possible. Aside from that, if mark bearer dies, it will also capture the last moments before they die, allowing the institute to have a solid proof whenever they investigate.

The people of the institute might hide this factor very well from others but Raven could instantly tell from one gaze because this mark is composed of Inscriptions, something that he poured a great amount of his time to research during his past life. Initially, Raven had plans of tinkering with this mark but since the functions aren't necessarily going to matter with his plans, he might as well keep it as it is.

Raven paid no more attention to the mark and took out some materials out of his spatial ring to start making something again.

After two hours of tinkering, he wiped off the sweat on his forehead and smiled with satisfaction. In front of him lies twelve small flags that shone with a silver light as well as a black orb that has numerous inscriptions on it's surface. He picked the flags and the orb and sat at the center of his cave dwelling.

He calmed his mind for a couple of minuted in meditation and as soon as he felt better, he picked up the flags one by one and stabbed it onto the ground in front of him in a circular formation. Once he was done doing that, he took out a needle and pricked his finger, he then placed a drop of blood on each flag as well as the black orb.

As soon as the black orb absorbed his blood, it hummed with a tune and flew out from his hands. It dropped down at the center of the flag formation and started spinning. At first, it was slow but as time goes on, the speed picked up until the spinning force was enough to influence the wind around him to blow a bit fiercer.

Shortly after that, the flags as well as the black orb levitated off the ground. The black orb emitted a brilliant flash of light, temporarily blinding him and when Raven's vision adjusted, he saw that the flags disappeared and only the black orb remained.

He sensed a faint connection with the orb in front of him. A smile flashed pass his lips as he used his ocular technique to inspect his territory once more.

The small flags did not disappear entirely, instead they just flew away and transported to some spots 100 miles in radius around his room. Some flags were even embedded at the depths of the cliff just to fulfill the requirements for the formation. Moments later Raven felt the energy around him become purer and thicken.

Holding the orb on his hand, the image of everything inside a 100 miles around him appeared in his head, he could also see the precise locations of the flags embedded deep on the cliff. Using his thoughts, he focused inside his room, more specifically onto a spot at the northern side of the room.

He then tried using his thoughts to push the a small part of the wall, Raven then felt a great resistance from it but he knows that it's not impossible to do so. With a great effort, he felt the wall cave in a bit.

He opened his eyes and looked at the same spot of his room, he then saw that there's a spot which seemed to cave in ever so slightly. This placed a huge smile on his face.