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Unlike the other two, Ezequiel and Tyrus did not show surprise. The Abomination Gorilla was confused since he did not understand how impressive a Soul Rune was. Tyrus' magic knowledge had grown over the years, but he never truly cared about things that did not directly help him to grow stronger.

The Supreme Neo-Demon, on the other hand, displayed calmness. For him, Zatiel creating a Soul Rune was not a reason for surprise. In his mind, he and his Master performing what others think impossible was normal.

When Ezequiel saw the confusion in the Abomination Gorilla, he shook his head lightly before speaking.

”You need to learn about this kind of thing, they may not enhance your strength, but it will allow you to react to them when an opponent is using them. You should not always depend on the Sun Tadpole to give you information about everything.”

Tyrus was very unruly, but although Ezequiel was weaker than him, the Abomination Gorilla admired him from the bottom of his heart. He gave a respectful bow and made sure to remember his words before using the Sun Tadpole to gain knowledge about Soul Runes.

Immediately the Sun Tadpole used its connection with the Elder Brain to share the information with the Abomination Gorilla.

Rune crafting is considered the hardest profession that exists. Rank 4 Runes, and above, use Soul Origin to be made and have the power of the laws in them. Those capable of making them earn the title Origin Runemaster.

The uses that runes have is uncountable. They can be put in territories to give them special defensive and offensive abilities like the golden flames that fill the Daybreak Magic Tower. Runes can also be engraved in someone's body to allow them to use the power of elements and schools of magic from which they have no knowledge.

Runic sets are a higher level of rune crafting, in which you engrave runes with different properties before fusing them into a sole entity, whose power is much greater than the mere sum of their parts. This is one of the greatest levels of mastery a Runemaster can achieve, but they are not the peak.

That position belongs to Soul Runes. They are the absolutely highest boundary and the pinnacle of rune crafting.

Soul Runes are the runes that can interact with the soul of life forms, and they are the ones who display the greatest of powers. Each of them is in itself a runic set, but the difficulty to make them is more than ten times than a Runic Set of the same Rank.

The reason for Totto's shock was that although there were Rank 6 Runemasters in the Aeternum Empire, there was not a single one who could create Soul Runes. If Zatiel succeeded, he would be the only Soul Runemaster of the empire!.

The Neo-Demon did not care about the shock of the people looking at him and just kept working. His Eye of Life and Creation, Eye of Death and Destruction, and Rebirth Eye were pushing his perception to a higher level, but that was not all. His True Will was also enhancing his discerning skills allowing him to drive his rune crafting abilities to the limits.

Zatiel kept moving his right hand in the air, creating runic lines faster and faster. He raised his left hand, and he dragged Kolo's unconscious True Soul to his side.

The True Soul had been floating in the sky all this time after the dragon body's destruction. There was nothing it could do to resist the Neo-Demon even if it wasn't in a comatose state.

Once the True Soul was in front of him, Zatiel made a purple aura cover his left hand before clenching his fist. The next moment the blue humanoid was crushed until the only thing that was left was pure soul force.

With unbelievable dexterity and with hand moves that were almost too fast for a Rank 4 life form to see, Zatiel began to fuse the soul force into the runic lines.

The Neo-Demon kept working for several hours, but all those around him remained quiet and kept watching the Soul Rune forming in the sky. It was the size of a fist, but it already had more than a million runic lines, and they were all connected in a way that it was impossible to decipher.

Out of nowhere, an explosion of blue and purple fire appeared in the distance, and the light it generated was so powerful that it appeared as if a new sun was rising from the ground.

The blast was so potent that although it occurred very far away, even a Rank 0 life form in the City of the Sun could see it at plain sight. Totto and the rest were surprised when they saw the explosion and felt they contained Zatiel's power.

Less than five seconds after the first one appeared, a new purple and blue explosion hundreds of kilometers away from the last one occurred.