Chapter 48 Thinking back and new discoveries. (2/2)

The second option was a lot siet your hands on a raw mana stone froe would becoh mana stone you could even make a weapon that didn’t need any outsidethis resource a runesmith would take an item, for instance, a sword He would then have to craft a socket for it, uard The stone would be then inserted into the special socket The mana stone would then turn into a battery for that ite more than a conduit for the mana stone

What he really needed to find here was the correct runic structure for this socket Fashi+oning an opening to fit a round object as a mana stone wasn’t hard He just needed to connect it with the main runic pathways and make a complete circuit He already tried the direct approach but it didn’t work, so he decided to evaluate his knowledge and go back to the basics

‘It Would be easier to get my hands on one of those runic weapons with these sockets but then this research would lose itsone of those ite here and could afford a coain rely on his debugging skill too much Then he would probably run into another wall down the line, that one probably far greater than this one

So there he was looking back through some chicken scratch that he called notes The candles that he was using were of the er This didn’t increase the quality of light though as his eyes were getting tired

In a slight fit, he finally tossed a bunch of notes up into the air and leaned back in his chair The stack of papers flew everywhere and started slowly descending after hitting the ceiling He closed his eyes and gave out an audible sigh before feeling soes that he tossed up, the moment he opened his eyes it was before him

He removed it from his face and furrowed his brows It was one of the runic components that he had drawn but it was upside down He looked at it for a second before realizing so at this issue in the wrong hat if the mana core isn’t a battery? Or if it's a co else’

Roland rubbed his chin From the way he saw it, the mana stones inserted into the sockets should work as batteries They were more or less an additional power source Now a new idea dawned on him, what if they worked in a somewhat different way

‘The mana stones don’t fully remove the need for a person to power the runes They mostly just lower the requirements by a set number, they sometimes even lower the deterioration rate of the runes… What if instead of a regular battery it was so ambient mana from the air it cleansed it from some kind of impurities and thus increased the power output in that way?'

This started ined mana as a river filled with mud water and the mana core as a dam with a filter on it The mana crystal would filter the mudded water and only let the clean water back into the stream

He had presumed that these crystals just storedsocketed into the iteht then the socket needed a whole new design

He brought out a new piece of paper and got out one of his pencils His entire room was a mess and the floor was littered with his scheers worked fast as he had done this h dexterity stat only added to the hastening of this process

In about an hour he had a finished schematic of a sword socket for a mana stone It was connected to the dual rune with the mana slash and thrust skills He waited a second before activating his debugging skill but when he did his bottoan to tremble

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He had previously created this combination rune and already received the experience for it Surprisingly adding the socket which was apparently just called a slot had given hihtly after running it through his debugging skill and gained another 100 XP for it This opened up a new revenue stream for him He could probably ain some bonus XP

This wasn’t ied to create the fabled design that he was trying to reproduce for raded version of his old title Apparently discovering new techniques in his profession did help his besides skills He was quick to check his new title out and was pleasantly surprised by the explanation

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He wasn’t sure howthat boosted his crafting skills would be appreciated Even if it was just 1 it orth it in the long run, the crafting process was always lengthy and this could hasten it by an hour or two

He had spent al his research and noas upon him Roland already knehat his new creation would be He already had made the sword and would just need to make a few adjustments

The easiest ould be to punch a hole through the poem into it The hard part would be toout He still had the oblin and could try to insert it there He wasn’t sure if there was a specialized skill or way to make the lue… orit…’

He scratched his head a bit while feeling drowsy He had already spent too ht and his sleep resistance skill was reaching its liht He could pick it up in thetechniques to eical sword

Roland really hoped that there wasn’t some kind of special skill required for this procedure He didn’t really have even the basic knowledge to start experi scherade to his title even showed hi If there was soure it out hiht even be i slot for a premade weapon and he would have to recreate it froh, that would have to wait for another day He was dead tired His eyes burned froet back into his research Maybe with soauntlet he always dreamed about…