Chapter 78: Remote Teaching
Elder Jiao’s words had barely fallen when another elder suddenly widened his eyes and exclaimed, “Wait—these… these are runes!”
“Runes?” Everyone froze. That didn’t seem right.
But the man was certain. He stepped closer and explained, “They’re spell runes—look here! It’s as if the talisman had been taken apart.”
He flipped through the stack of pages one by one. “If you connect the strokes on each sheet in order…”
Everyone leaned in to look—and sure enough, they realized he was right. The mysterious symbols were indeed the strokes of a spell rune, only completely deconstructed. Each individual brushstroke of the talisman had been drawn on a separate page.
“Look here in the corner—there are small notes!” the elder pointed excitedly. “It says how much spiritual energy should be infused at each stroke, and in what order!”
Everyone craned their necks to see. In the lower right corner, in small, neat handwriting, it read:
“Inject three parts spiritual energy, increase to four at one-third of completion.”
Everyone: “…”