Chapter 41：The Timer Circuit (1/2)

The first circuit Mack chose to carve in his body was the timer circuit. The first one he learned.

”I hope I'm choosing wisely.”

His firm hand grabbed his dagger and like a man doing a surgery his head came extremely close to his left hand observing the minute details of his skin.

The tip of the blade touched the skin slightly and blood started to leave the small cut but Mack's gaze did not change a bit and slit the dagger over the skin of his left thumb.

And the runes were the same as the timed activation runes he first learned. But with two small differences....

The circuit multilayered design.

And the time for activation was almost one second from Earth.

Mack carved the rest of the runes and cleaned the residual blood from the cuts and finally could see a rune circuit pattern over his fingerprint on the left thumb.

It looked like a sand clock from Earth with a hexagram around. Small yet beautiful.

The hexagram was responsible for the circuit overlapping and the runes carved inside it formed a symbol of a sand clock.

Mack didn't delay pondering over the beauty of such a symbol and directly focused on activating it.

He could not lose too much time, or else he risked damaging the rune with his passive inhuman healing.

If the rune was not activated while the blood was still on the cuts it would just heal normally and disappear forever.

Mack focused his mind on that circuit and tried to activate it. But was hard for him. His Essence density was too huge and his will not strong enough, it was like trying to lift a car using only one finger.

Three long minutes later and the rune finally started to blink in red light.

Mack, covered in cold sweat, opened his eyes and could finally see that all his efforts until now finally paid off.

The rune was now a perpetual rune. Using the essence inside Mack's body to continually blink at each second.

~sigh~

”It worked!”

[Congratulations]

”All thanks to you. That overlapping circuit rune didn't exist on the cube. Even being as simple as an 'odd' hexagram I would never have guessed.”

[The merit is all yours. As I said already. Information is the only thing I can provide you]

”Thanks anyway”

[...]

”Now to the real hard part.”

Said Mack, looking at several circuits draw on the ground.

The circuit he carved in his hand was useless alone.

And around him, in a radius of more than 20 meters, not a single patch of grass could be seen.

The ground was brown and full of carved runes. And in the middle of all those runes a man and a cube.

Mack looked at the various prototypes he drew over the days and could not choose one. All of them seemed insignificant. With no great damage output.

He needed one to use in battles. That was the only reason he spent all those days researching and learning and practicing how to carve runes.