Chapter 44：Middle Finger (1/2)

After a few hours of practicing that circuit and being sure that it would work in a reduced size, Mack took his dagger and maimed his left middle finger.

Four minutes later, a bloody runic circuit could be seen in his middle finger.

Mack touched his thumb on the back of his fingernail, and the entire finger blinked. That was the signal that the runic circuit was perpetually carved on his own body.

No matter if his nails would grow or his cells get older and die. That circuit would be there forever.

Seeing the circuit was done, It was time for Mack to test if it would work properly.

Every time Mack wanted to activate a runespell, he would need to touch the tips of his fingers with the thumb finger. Then the Compression circuit would activate and 'drain' Essence from his body and compress that Essence. While the runes activated on the finger would change how that compressed Essence worked.

This was possible all thanks to the multilayered design of the circuits. Otherwise Mack would need to carve those runes in other bigger parts of his body. And that would become cumbersome to active during a battle.

Mack could have also opted to carve those runes on tools, using his thumb to activate them. But by doing that he would lose the advantages of his freak body.

If he carver runes on tools than the used Essence for the circuits would be the Essence of the tools or from the environment and they were far less denser than the Essence inside Mack. And he would need to keep carrying all those tools with him all the time. And for Mack, that was annoying as hell.

And that was the biggest advantage of Mack freak body.

Mack touched the tip of his middle finger.

~zummmmmmmm~

The 'Forcefield runespell' was activated.

But Mack didn't felt the 'Gravity' increasing like he expected.

”What a heck?”

The circuits were working.

But not as he wished!

[We did not account for that]

Mack suddenly felt his blood churning. Like several ants were crawling over his skin.

”Fuck. Whats this red wind over my hand?”

Mack touched again his fingers, deactivating the runespell, and the weird feeling along with that red wind stopped.

Mack felt slightly tired.

”We tested it several times!”

[Indeed. But not in a living being]

”Lets try to figure what went wrong.”

Mack touched his middle finger again and activated the Forcefield runespell.

Mack looked around and could see the grass on the ground slightly moving in a circular pattern around him. Like wind was passing by it. It was the effect of Essence moving quickly on the grass and air.

Mack looked at his hand and arms, and they were covered in a reddish thin layer of wind.

Red Essence?

”Why red?”

[Maybe it's your...]

”Blood!”

”Essence is fucking moving my blood out of my body! Thats why I feel all my body churning!”

Mack touched his finger and quickly deactivated the runespell again.

”What a heck is going on?”

Mack passed his hand over his forehead.

His hand now was covered in red sweat.

Mack approached his hand to his nose and could smell the strong iron odor typical of blood.

He was indeed losing blood through his pores.

”But why? Why is this happening?”

Then Mack remembered the grass moving on the ground.

”Dammed! How could I forget that!”

”Essence tends to occupy all available space!”