68 Performing over their limits (2/2)

The old man's face was serious and without wasting time he took the next rune and put it above the orb replacing the previous one.

Another hologram appears, but this time two humanoids were shown, on the first, a tattoo appears on his arm, the man activated the rune and in the second humanoid, an invisible dot was adhering. The two humanoids separated inside the hologram until the rune glow turns off. Like before, the effects of the rune were displayed.

Although his expression was more composed this time, the old man was still impressed by it, and he put the final rune in the orb.

The hologram with the humanoid was generated and a tattoo that covered a great part of the upper chest appeared, before starting to glow as an invisible barrier covers him. A great ball of fire was launched against the humanoid generating an immense explosion, but when the flames vanished the humanoid was unharmed and the barrier remained.

The moment the old man and Nein saw this they were both shocked.

”Master how much power did that spell carried?”

”100 degrees of damage and yet the barrier remained without a problem,” The reason for the surprise of the old man was different from Nein, he had lived a long time and was a Rank 2 Runemaster with the ability to inscribe some Rank 3 runes. He had heard of the rune known as ´Magic Shield´ and although it was rare finding it on the open market, there were some in the Empire that were kept for personal use, he knew that the maximum degree of damage that the rune can handle is supposed to be 100 degrees, yet this one remained standing after that.

There were several ways of making a rune display power over his theoretical limit, like replacing the material that was in the diagram for similar ones of a higher rank, but this was counterproductive as the value that the rune would be inferior to the cost it took to make it.

The old man keeps looking at the rune for a long time, even using his consciousness to assess it, and in the end, he was able to determinate that the reason for it performance was due to a sublime work all the way from the processing of the material to the inscription, that could only be achieved with a great talent.

The old man focuses on Zatiel for a long time trying to see something from his expression, but he remained calm and indifferent no matter how long he looks at him.

Once again activating the orb, the same scene appeared and a more powerful explosion of fire reached the barrier, yet this one remains.

It was on the third trial that the barrier finally broke, yet the amount of power that reached the humanoid only made some light injuries and nothing more.

When the screen with the effect of the rune appear both the old man and Nein were shocked.

”Master, it was able to withstand 135 degrees of damage!”

”Yes, It is a Rank 1 runes with a power similar to the one of a Low grade-Rank 2 rune. I guess I don't have to tell you what this means and the commercial value of this rune.”

Heinz was looking from the side and didn't understand how the assessment of runemaster work, but he was able to get that the runes Zatiel created were truly impressive from the expression of the two.

When Zatiel first shows up the expression of both was of indifference and annoyance but now when they saw him there was intrigue and praise.