Two Books

[Twisted Treant: Third-Ring True-Name Totem Rune!!]

Inside his Sea of Consciousness, pale green motes of light formed a rune—an incredibly intricate totem rune.

A Third-Ring rune contained ten times as many spell formulas as a Second-Ring rune. With its interlocking spell structures and energy circuits, it was over a hundred times more complex.

Yin Ming sensed a thick stack of white paper inside the Scavenger Gourd. Each sheet was about the size of A4 paper, made from the sap of Phil and other Twisted Treants.

Ink gathered into a marble-sized sphere and burst. It flowed across a sheet like spilled mercury, printing the Twisted Treant Third-Ring True-Name Totem Rune onto the paper without the slightest error.

It would reinforce his memory of the True-Name Totem Rune, and leaving himself a copy would not hurt.

The mental message Sadi had left in the green crystal allowed instant memorization, but the weaker one's mental strength, the faster that memory faded. That was why bloodline warlocks learned so slowly.

Even with the mental strength of a First-Ring Official Wizard, memorizing such an intricate Third-Ring rune was a struggle.

"So this is the Third-Ring True-Name Totem Rune. Too bad I don't have suitable materials for an External Core. For now, I can only use it in battles in the mental world of the Void Abyss."

Yin Ming sighed.

It was not that he lacked extraordinary materials capable of bearing the power of a Third-Ring manifestation.

Divine Jade Bone could replace Adamantine. Since it was already bone, it would even save him the long process of refinement.

But he could find no high-grade extraordinary material with an effect comparable to Starmithril Mercury.

If he used a divine-grade material for the External Core's shell, its liquid would need to bear the power of a Fourth-Ring manifestation,