68 Performing over their limits (1/2)

The moment Nein saw that great amount of runes, the first thing it came to his mind was no surprise by the skill of Zatiel, but disdain, as he as seen this type of performance more than once.

´Hmph, using quantity over quality to make your skill look better than they are, these are probably sub rank runes that all they do is take the capacity of the somebody and give an insignificant boost´.

An individual has a limit at the capacity of runes his body can bear, this his correlated to the energy and vitality of his body, so unless the rune can offer an improvement they can use in the long run they usually don't spend their money on them, this is the reason most Rank 1 don't possess a rune and usually save their money and wait to find one more suitable in the future, besides most of the basic runes can be replaced by spells that are more easy to obtain.

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Even though Nein was sure that going through these runes will be a waste of time, he was smart enough to know that Zatiel had some type of relation with Heinz, and offending a prince from the Empire was not something he could afford to do. So he will checks these runes and then will have a solid excuse to reject or put very harsh conditions in the contract.

Nein took the piles of beast skin and start to appraise the inscriptions in one of them, and the moment he did, he was surprised, but being someone who has lived hundreds of years he was able to control his expression so the rest didn't notice, or at least they choose not to comment on it.

´These runes are not mere low-grade Rank 1 runes, the inscription that all of them carry is very complicated and there is not a single mistake in any of them. The precision and control needed to do this are impressive,´ Although he could not know the effect of the runes by just looking at them, Nein was a Rank 1 runemaster and he was approaching the level of Rank 2, so he was able to detect the general Rank of the work that Zatiel did.

For the first time since he enters the room, Nein gives a detailed look at Zatiel.

´The amount of energy in his body is between Advanced and Master level of Rank 1, so if he made these, his talent is impressive,´ Nein went back to the runes, this time carefully organizing them before he started to go from one on one, to see if the same quality was in all or there were some inferior ones in between.

The old man had all of his focus in the red glow that was left in the sword marks and has not paid any attention to the runes that Zatiel left, but when notices the change on the attitude of Nein, and the meticulosity he was doing his work, he became intrigued. Especially when he saw the surprise in the middle-age man was so much, that he was not even bothering in hiding it anymore, as he was reaching the runes at the ending that were different from the rest.

In that stack, there were only three types of runes, but the quality varied, especially the ones at the end, that were made in the ninth and tenth day.

The old man moved his hand and three runes at the end moved by themselves and reached his palm, and as he judges them, his eyes narrow before he looks at Zatiel.

”What is the name of these runes?” Although the voice of the old man indifferent it carried great pressure that will make any Rank 1 quiver.

”They are Ecolocalization, Hunters Mark and Magic Shield” Zatiel remained was calm without fear as he stares back at the old man.

The old man was a little surprised by Zatiel composture, but after hearing the names, he focuses on the runes again. He took a strange orb from his spatial ring and put a rune over it before filling it with energy.

When the orb appears, Heinz and Nein concentrate on it, waiting for the display that was going to happen.

The orb started to glow and the rune begins to float over it as a small hologram of a humanoid appeared. Over the man, a strange tattoo starts to generate, beginning in his throat extending to the back of his ears.

The humanoid roared and no sound came out, but in the hologram, you could see how a sound wave was generated expanding with the man at the center, before returning and the runes in the back of the ears started to glow. The hologram ended and a screen with the information describing the effect of the rune appear.