First, he would max out the Undead Summoning spell rune.
Once the thought struck him, Wei En acted on it. He immediately opened the panel and selected the Undead Summoning spell rune to add points.
1/1,
[Undead Summoning spell rune Level 1 (1/1). Upgrade?] [Upgrade.] [Congratulations, your runic knowledge: Undead Summoning spell rune has been raised to Level 2. Effect: success rate for drawing this rune is 20%.] [Undead Summoning spell rune Level 2 (1/2). Upgrade?]
[Undead Summoning spell rune Level 9 (9/9). Upgrade?] [Upgrade.] [Congratulations, your runic knowledge: Undead Summoning spell rune has reached max level. Effect: success rate for drawing this rune is 100%.] [Congratulations, you have obtained one piece of max-level rune knowledge. Your Introduction to Runic Studies advancement progress: 2/10. Special reward: Spirit Level +1.]
After the Undead Summoning spell rune reached max level, every detail concerning the rune appeared one by one before Wei En's eyes.
Those tangled lines and nodes—he could now find their starting points, endpoints, and the best way to handle them.
Hmm?
Places that could be optimized?
Wei En looked at the rune pattern in his mind and silently calculated. One spot, two spots, three spots... a full twenty-three rune nodes that could be optimized?
Most of them involved adding one or two extended circuits beside important nodes.
"What's going on here?"
When the Soul-Devouring Rune had reached max level before, he had also discovered parts that could be simplified, but the Soul-Devouring Rune had only had two such places.
This Undead Summoning spell rune, however, had twenty-three places that could be simplified.
Wei En did not know whether these were mistakes, whether they served some purpose, or whether there was some sort of conspiracy involved.
But he could roughly infer several possibilities.
First, the school was holding something back,