Secrets Beneath the Well

Every corner of a magic rune had its own meaning. It might represent nature, a living creature, or an imagined form. As long as one had mastered the foundational magic runes, one could basically reverse-engineer the vast majority of magic runes.

Of course, reverse-engineering only gave one a rough understanding of a magic rune's effects. It was impossible to reproduce it perfectly, because magic runes also had their own writing trajectories. If the sequence of inscription was wrong, the resulting magic rune would only be a pale imitation.

What Angel was doing now was not reproducing the magic rune, but deducing its meaning.

Reverse-engineering a magic rune was no easy task. Complex magic runes had far too many overlapping sections. He needed to pick those overlapping parts out from each corner of the magic rune bit by bit before he could understand and expand upon them.

A night passed.

The fierce wind still howled outside, carrying flurries of snow. Angel raised his head, set down his pen, and rubbed the arm that had grown sore after being bent over his work all night.

On the desk before him lay a stack of pages densely covered in writing.

Only after clearing his groggy head did Angel begin his final deductions. "According to my deductions, the magic rune at the bottom of the well is a composite magic rune. It should be a magic energy array. There are over a thousand extractable magic rune fragments, but... I can only understand a little over three hundred of them."

"This is a descriptive fragment of the 'Contract Magic Rune.' This is a fragment of the 'Concealment Magic Rune' that expresses the manifestation mechanism. This is a fragment of the 'Channel Magic Rune' that expresses the concept of measurement..." Angel analyzed them piece by piece