The beautiful scenery and unexpected discoveries eased the exhaustion built up from pushing his mental power to its limits.
Still, he found a delightful little spot: an enormous petal that served as a small bed. The white petal cupped upward like a hand holding something, its edges raised and its middle slightly hollowed, with a subtle tilt. Even its width was just right, perfectly suited to his little kobold form.
His arrival shifted its angle slightly, making it even better for reading while lying on his back.
A slender climbing plant was crawling over him, its stem covered in stiff hairs. But as a dragonborn kobold, he had nothing to fear from those tiny prickles. He had pulled the twisting little thing over himself. Ruger had not damaged it; it bore a string of little purple flowers and had originally been climbing around a larger plant nearby.
He lay there at ease, reading that string of little purple flowers.
It was not just the petal bed that had made him stop here, but also the contents of those flowers.
They mentioned something called Shingor's Law, which involved the conversion of invisible medium into tangible matter. It was precisely what he needed. He had struggled with that very issue while planning his second-ring fixed spell. Although he had ultimately resolved everything, he knew the result was not perfect. Fixed spells could still undergo minor modifications, and now that he had reached the third ring, he could handle those much more easily.
Shingor's Law chiefly described a leakage phenomenon that occurred when invisible medium became tangible matter: a loss and waste that was exceedingly difficult to detect, and even harder to prove. In theory, every kind of invisible medium exhibited this phenomenon during all sorts of conversions, whether through spells or unusual