Chapter 347: First Test of the Runic System (2/2)
And with Players like Gou Dan running around gathering information like a journalist, there were naturally certain Players who understood certain insider information and filled in the blanks on their own.
“Elven arcane text… High elf runes…”
Though Marni looked confused by the words on his System page, a storm was stirring inside him.
Unlike the other players who didn’t understand the background setting of the high elves, he was with Edward and the others when they visited the Elven Queen and learned about the secrets of the high elves of the last age.
Even if the event quest did not offer specifics, he could basically be sure that the so-called arcane text and runes were mostly likely a power that the high elves of the last age used for controlling Mystery! In fact, the runic embedding that the page mentioned was probably to apply that same method to weapons and equipment.
To think that the God of Games could see through the secrets of the high elves and achieve such feat-he truly is the God of Games!
On the other hand, while Edward didn’t make information about the Elven SIN public, he had mentioned it to Marni who was revived at the same lifestone at the same time.
“High elven ruins, super magitek that emulates a world and whatever… it sounds great and all, but it ended up as nothing more than toys for us, believers of the God Games to strengthen ourselves.” All at once, Marni revered the God of Games even more.The truth was that Xi Wei did not actually quarantine all the distorted power that could corrupt souls in the Elven SIN. Instead, he would draw in any of the powers that came to him without rejecting any, extracting the high elves’ basic arcane text and then use it for a basis for further extraction, and the arcane text would eventually take the form of
runes.
Such was the solution Xi Wei applied to resolve the players’ risk of being spiritually corrupted by Mystery. The advantage of this was that there wouldn’t be a widespread swap for items and new equipment amongst the Players. Xi Wei would be able to spare substantial divine power needed to create new items, just as he wouldn’t have to rack his brains over what to do with the old items.
Moreover, the Players’ equipment had already reached maturity at the current phase as well. Therefore, instead of having Xi Wei waste his own strength to introduce stronger event-limited items which the Players would have to form, it was only obvious that rune embedding was a quicker and better path of improving the Players’ overall ability.
And it has been proven that the Players quite liked the runic setting (since it doesn’t cost money), and many of them were already testing different assemblies of runes. The Players who contributed less and in turn obtained fewer elven arcane text were already urging Eleena to quickly open the gates to the Faint Crystal Stratum to head within SIN for monster farming and rune collecting.
There was a total of 50 different runes, each of which could be affixed into three-runes or four-runes arrangement-but the four-runes assembly were mostly a strengthened version of the three-runes assembly, meaning that the system basically follows a Gaussian distribution.
Any plans of collecting everything in the middle of the event would be very difficult.
Still, even if the Players could really clear the Elven SIN and allow Xi Wei to completely claim the Mystery within, he wouldn’t have to rely on the Elven SIN to make runes from then on since his own power would suffice.