Ruger took the wineglass, gulped down a hefty mouthful, then leaned back in the recliner and smacked his lips.
So Aisijin, Big Silly Hum, and Serious Mouse were busy preparing a separate table of delicacies tailored to Tuzel because of the instructions he had given them yesterday. They were working hard on his apology gift.
Ruger suddenly felt that he could not keep lying there enjoying himself.
He immediately sat up, but after thinking it over and finding nothing he could help with, he lay back down.
Just then, Big Silly Hum handed him a kind of grilled fish skeleton he had never seen before. It was coated in homemade sauce, which had set onto it during grilling. The meat had not been stripped clean from the bones, either; some had deliberately been left behind, just the right amount to give it a distinctive flavor.
Ruger bit off a mouthful and chewed, feeling for a moment just how wonderful life was. He no longer had any desire to get up and leave the old recliner.
He drank deeply, relaxing into a puddle in his chair.
As he ate, he considered the tasks he had piled up and what came next. First, of course, was deciphering the meditation method. That complex pattern might be the Demonic Mark Meditation Method, the Black Book's final gift. Naturally, this gift was not something he could acquire all at once. There was a process: only once he had deciphered and absorbed it, truly understood the pattern, and actually constructed that special eye would it all be complete. By then, his mental power might already meet the standard of a Two-Ring Wizard, or even exceed it.
Sensing this world, observing and searching for World Runes that appealed to him, including finding traces and clues-all these activities,