"… I see."
Benjamin took a deep breath and replied.
Who could be more familiar with this character than him
All his spellcasting abilities are based on this character. He had also found similar records before in the underground ruins filled with green light. But Benjamin didn't expect that this character would be spread to the outside world, and even be found by the old mage in front of him.
Maybe... a long time ago, mages didn't know anything about runes
"Dean Benjamin, do you also recognize this thing?" The old mage showed a surprised expression and said, "After coming into contact with it, my stagnant mental power showed some fluctuations. The meanings of these runes are Water element, fire element, destruction, healing, wind element. There are only five in total, and I can’t search for more.”
More...
Benjamin thought for a moment, took a deep breath, then took out a pen and paper and began to draw on it.
"Dean Benjamin, what are you..."
"Shhh."
Benjamin urged the system to bring out the characters obtained in the underground ruins. At that time, these runes were carved into the stone slabs and were given to the Masters and Freemasons. But then times changed, the Masters and Freemasons collapsed overnight, and those tablets disappeared.
Fortunately, these characters are recorded in the system's database.
After comparing it with the old mage's parchment, he found that the characters in the parchment all appeared on the stone slabs. In addition, there were twenty-seven similar characters, which should also have specific meanings, but they could not understand them yet.
After comparing the pictures provided by the system, Benjamin drew the remaining twenty-seven characters on the paper.
"Take a look, this is something I found in another ruins." After finishing the painting, Benjamin pushed the paper in front of the old mage and said, "These should also be the characters you are looking for, but their meanings What it is, I don’t even know yet.”
The old mage was stunned and did not react for a while.
Seeing this, Benjamin called a few more words. The other party finally came back to his senses and smiled awkwardly. Then, he looked at the characters Benjamin drew on the paper, his eyes showing uncontrollable excitement.
"I... have been searching for many years and have never found anything more. Dean Benjamin... I don't know what to say."
Benjamin smiled and shook his head and said, "Don't worry, just take a good look at these characters. Maybe they can really help your situation."
The old mage also nodded, held up the thin piece of paper, like an old scholar holding the torn pages of a thousand-year-old book, and squinted his eyes to read it.
After a while, he took a deep breath, pointed at a certain character on it, and said: "This character... is the element of earth. I major in earth magic, and when I imagined this character in my mind, I could feel it being very big. Something strange happened!"
Benjamin nodded thoughtfully when he heard this.
Conception... The old mage touched the runes in this way, can he try it too
He closed his eyes and tried to outline the appearance of the triangular character in his mind. Unfortunately, he did not feel any movement, nor did his consciousness space change.
"What's the point of trying this? Of course you are different from him." The system complained, "He has nothing in his mind. Of course, there will be changes due to the runes. You already have a more powerful rune in your mind. Well, what’s the use of just having an idea?”
Hearing what the system said, Benjamin was a little surprised.
"So... you seem to know this stuff very well?"
The system said: "It's just intuition. I don't know how to use it. I only know that it has a very fatal attraction to the elements, so like yesterday, you could kill that crazy priest on the spot with just one rune."
Benjamin touched his chin and said nothing.
The rune he drew on the priest's chest yesterday was purely a whim. But now it seems that besides the form of runes in Benjamin’s consciousness space, tattooing does not seem to be an unfeasible path...
After all, not everyone can open up a conscious space.
"Have you ever thought about drawing these runes on yourself?" Thinking of this, Benjamin also spoke and said to the old mage.
The old mage was silent for a moment and nodded.
"Of course I have thought about it. However, the influence of runes is so great. If you use special magic materials to draw them on your skin, I am afraid it will cause some completely uncontrollable states. In addition, I have never found the earth element. character, so this idea has always been abandoned.”
"That's true..."
The priest died yesterday. Although I am very curious about the characters, they can’t do human experiments, right
"In any case, I am still very grateful to you for providing these characters." The old mage took a deep breath and said, "I am going to take them back to study first and try to find their meaning and usage. If I find anything, I will come again Notified you."
"Then please pay more attention." Benjamin also nodded, thought for a while, and added a few more words, "By the way, regarding the characters, you can try to use your mental power to build a model in your mind. It may be feasible. method."
"Thanks for the reminder, I'll try it."
In this way, the old mage took twenty-seven new runes and left with satisfaction. This so-called rune research group has been established, although from beginning to end, there is only one person in the group, the old mage.
However, considering that Benjamin gave him so many runes, he was obviously not angry, and instead told Benjamin about his research results.
This can be considered an investment.
Benjamin didn't know what the elemental planes and runes could bring to these mages. But...maybe this will be a complete revolution in the way mages meditate? He didn't know what changes the runes would bring.
But he knew very well that his ability to reach his current strength was largely due to Rune.
Therefore, he returned to the conscious space again.
The system's spells haven't been figured out for him yet, and the skill of merging with the water element to do whatever he wants hasn't cooled down yet, so Benjamin can't do much. But thinking of the runes the old mage just showed him, he couldn't help but have some strange thoughts in his mind.
Although magic can no longer be used, he can still use his mental power to control the water element in the space.
He commanded the water element, first arranging it into the shape of the character representing "destruction".
Ding!
The new character unexpectedly made a soft sound at this moment.
The originally peaceful water element seemed to be stimulated by something, full of violence. All kinds of strange things emerged, such as ice cones, water threads, air blades... Their shapes were extremely unstable, constantly switching between three states, sometimes cracking, sometimes taking shape, whirling in the darkness of the consciousness space. Trembling, like an extremely terrifying tornado.
Benjamin was stunned and found that he couldn't control this thing. Many ice blades were thrown out and flew in the direction of him and the system, scaring him so much that he quickly dispersed the "destruction" characters he had just formed.
As the water element dispersed, the characters became shapeless, and the out-of-control water magic storm gradually subsided.
Benjamin took a deep breath and suddenly fell into deep thought.
"...Why do I feel like you don't need spells anymore?" The system jumped over tremblingly, suddenly spoke, and asked.