Chapter 557: Brush of Wisdom (2/2)
He took a deep breath and sharpened his focus. When he opened his eyes, a cold and gloomy gleam was present on his pupils.
Raven then raised the brush and drew the same exact 'Soul' rune from before. It barely took him a second to do so. Once he did, the mood disappeared from his face...but not on the rune itself.
”Shit!” Raven gasped in disbelief. ”I'm not seeing things! This brush can be used to channel and medium to manifest my intentions to anything I draw!! Unbelievable!”
This was an unprecedented discovery. And Raven couldn't be any more glad that he managed to realize this.
An item that could act as a medium to channel someone's intentions to drawing with barely an effort. This Brush of Wisdom might as well be the last of it's kind.
One has to know that it takes a HUGE amount of effort to channel one's intention to something.
It isn't as simple as anger being channeled to; say a weapon. Just because a swordsman was mad, it doesn't mean that he/she could channel their anger to the sword itself. Swords are mostly inanimate objects, the only times that they'll have some kind of spirituality in them is when their creator bestows them one, even then the process itself was quite dangerous and takes a lot of time and energy to do so.
'Intent' this is an ephemeral substance or energy form that not everyone could possess. There are many kinds of Intents out there, Raven himself has two of them being Fist Intent and his pseudo-Slaughter Intent
Raven worked extremely hard to acquire these things, at luck was also a great factor to it. Just from the way he acquired the pseudo-Slaughter Intent alone, one could realize just how challenging it is to have one.
He had to slaughter millions and millions in order to get the pseudo-Slaughter Intent, not even the genuine one.
Just from these factors alone, enlightening one's self upon Intents were already challenging and exploring it's applications aren't even included in that.
However, the sheer existence of the Brush of Wisdom tramples upon that notion.
Raven didn't even channeled the intent but a mere 'mood' when he drew that rune. The mood of killing someone. Under normal circumstances, this shouldn't have any effect on the rune but thanks to the magic of the brush, it did.
How can he not be shocked?
This brush wasn't simply monstrous, it was heaven-defying!
Thanks to his discovery, Raven felt eager to try it more. In fact, he totally got carried away.
He messed around with a few basic runes, drawing every single one with varying volumes of his pseudo-Slaughter Intent. It didn't take long before an array composed of basic runes were formed in front of him, and it was glorious.
It radiated a heavy scent and feel of Slaughter. Just from a glance, one would even have visions of bodies forming mountains and blood turning into rivers. Even experts would find it hard to believe that this is the basic out of the basic arrays there is due to the sheer aura of slaughter it has.
Raven was still unsatisfied, therefore he created more. He tried channeling his cleansing flames on the brush and it worked smoothly.
Instead of his Cosmic Energy, the runes are now drawn using his Cleansing Flames instead. White runes sparkled and fluctuated with purity formed the same array as the last one, however there's a world of difference between the two.
Raven's heart was dancing in joy. Now, all the feeling of uncertainty and unwillingness was gone. It turns out that he made the right choice.
The only reason why Raven was somewhat hesitant at first is because, choosing this brush gave him the feeling that his future path will be inevitably be entangled by runes and seals. Which means that he'll be treading the Sealing Path.
It wasn't really that much of a problem however, what made him a bit hesitant is the fact that study of Seals takes a long time and effort to so. Had he known that he'll ended up treading this path, he would've built a stronger foundations for it but it only solidified when he grabbed the brush.
There's no turning back from here on out though. It was already decided the moment he touched this thing, which means that now, he had to catch up and do some revisions about his general plan.
”Well, since I'm here...I might as well do my best.”