"Lucid State."
Ronan softly repeated the four words.
After thinking for a moment, he closed his eyes and entered meditation once more.
Within the empty Consciousness Space, the darkness that had once filled it had completely vanished.
A point of light hovered in the sky like a tiny sun, sending out rippling white rings again and again.
A steady stream of Spiritual Power surged forth from it. "That's not right?!"
Ronan's mind suddenly stirred. His tightly shut eyelids trembled, then quickly opened.
Had there been a second person present, they would have clearly seen it—Ronan's pupils changed from the lake-blue of boundless tranquility to a clear, luminous azure, faintly glowing like the finest, purest blue crystal, imparting an impression of extreme calm and wisdom.
At that moment, Ronan felt his mind working at an incomparably fast pace. Every second seemed to bring countless sparks of inspiration colliding and bursting forth. After a single breath, Ronan took out a blank Rune Stone and a rune engraving knife from his Storage Waist Pouch and began engraving runes.
The first blank Rune Stone was for an attempt at a high-tier zero-order Swift Rune.
Smooth, fluid... completed in one go. Success.
Then came the second.
Then the third. Ronan engraved five Swift Runes in one breath, and all of them succeeded!
Before this, however, his success rate in engraving Swift Runes had been less than thirty percent!
Throughout the engraving process, Ronan's thoughts remained calm and clear, as though his soul had briefly left his body and was looking down from a third-person perspective as he completed the entire task.
When it was over, his Spiritual Power had suffered almost no depletion and remained full.
After five, Ronan stopped engraving and took out a metal box covered in patterns instead.
It was the mysterious