Chapter 66 - Chapter 66: Chapter 64: Rune Fusion (1/2)

Chapter 66: Chapter 64: Rune Fusion

Karl’s consciousness often hovered in the sky above, silently observing the unfolding events of the silver descendant incident, clearly understanding that there was no need for his own intervention.

After all, the silver descendants clan of Nasir only amounted to a few hundred people on a single street.

For the past ten years, every family in East City District who had suffered from serious illness had received Irene’s beneficence, and combined with the support of sea merchant John at the docks, the influence of the Fischer family had grown immensely.

There was no doubt that Irene’s daily toil had paid off.

“Moreover, many who learned that Irene was in trouble probably didn’t think first about ‘I have received favors, I am grateful to Irene and must fight for her’…”

“But rather, ‘If there’s no Irene in the future, what shall I do if I become seriously ill?’ is probably what they thought.”

Any action meant to attack Irene would strike at these people’s fundamental interests, which has always been a crucial reason why those “with knowledge of herbs and medicine” tend to become Priests since ancient times.

He is now also trying to do something “fresh,” since just “watching the little people” is frankly too boring, and he definitely needs to find ways to relieve his ennui.

Ever since Lucius died, the normal rune of “protect” evolved into the more advanced spirit rune “Iron Wall,” Karl immediately had a bold idea.

Whether it was possible, through some means, to cause the soul imprints linked to runes for Byrne and Irene to evolve, to become higher-level spirit runes, or even to evolve “Iron Wall,” which was already a spirit rune, to an even higher tier.

Karl gradually attempted to integrate the runes within his soul.

Given the limited number of members in the Fischer family, the soul imprint of the unoccupied “weapon” rune could only be given to the young Darren, which obviously wasn’t very useful yet.

It wasn’t until recently that he finally figured out how to disassemble the “weapon” rune into the more fundamental “rune essence” and then let other runes “consume” it.

Devouring, evolving, much like what he had been doing all along.

Karl also discovered through research that each rune contained a different amount of rune essence, and their evolutionary needs were drastically different.

If the base of the “accelerate” rune, a Collectible-class rare artefact, were to evolve into a higher-level spirit rune, it would only require three ordinary runes extracted from Collectible-class rare artefacts of the same level.

However, evolving the “healing” rune, which likely originated from a Forbidden-class rare artifact, might require more than thirty ordinary runes extracted from Collectible-class rare artefacts.

He even found that the spirit rune “Iron Wall” also held potential for further evolution.

However, the amount of rune essence it required was nearly a stupendous figure, a situation that didn’t need to be considered at the current stage.

So he ultimately decided to break down the “weapon” rune into the essence of runes, feeding them one after another to the “accelerate” rune.

The blue accelerate rune, shaped like a triangle, fluctuated slightly within Karl’s soul, growing brighter; the actual effect of acceleration also improved to a certain extent.

“It’s a success!”

But to truly evolve, it would still need to be “fed” two more ordinary runes, or alternatively, given a rune extracted from a Treasure-class rare artifact in one go.

After merging the runes, Karl’s intangible consciousness roamed through accessible places in the town just like always when suddenly, he sensed an extremely enticing aroma.

It was a rare artifact far more powerful than ordinary ones, appearing within the range of his perception!

Enticed as if by delicious cuisine, he instantly pulled his intangible consciousness over, and then “saw” a man in a black robe with a black mask sitting calmly in a carriage, moving along the street.

That was the carriage of the Isaac knight family!

Karl could feel distinctly that the black-robed man possessed the strength of Transmutation level, and also carried with him what should be a Treasure-class mysterious rare artifact.

He was a noble who controlled the power of Bloodline, with a “Earth” type Bloodline.

Odd, considering Karl’s ten years of knowledge about Nasir, there was no such person there; that guy was an outsider.

“He seems to have a bit of a problem, his exact strength is roughly low-level Transmutation, but the ‘Treasure’ he carries might be more troublesome than his actual strength,” Karl thought.

In any case, he still conveyed his will to the members of the Fischer family, urging the favored members to offer better mysterious rare artifacts.