Chapter 1176: Rewards (13) [Bonus]
Chapter 1176: Rewards (13) [Bonus]
[Change your username, Niceee. I suggest Eviiil. Or very, very, very small p…ersonality]
It seemed that these evolutions were his rewards from his Destiny Quest, but Sylas hardly paid much attention to them. Although he felt his perception toward the Mesh of Reality suddenly take another enormous leap forward, he was far more focused on what it would allow him to do, testing out so many other abilities he thought of—even ones that he thought he couldn’t have been able to pull off before.
For example, there was a compressing method he thought of that relied on Spatial Casting. Runes normally had a very set “size.” They were like atomic units—fixed and consistent.
You could increase the gap and span between two Runes, but you couldn’t just make them larger to fill in said gaps. As a result, if you wanted to make a larger formation, you needed to either fill it with more Runes or compress it within enough energy that the Runes had more than enough to fill in whatever weaknesses there might be.
This wasn’t normally a problem Sylas thought of much at all. It was like an accepted flaw of Rune crafting that often led to many problems, but no one really thought twice about it because that was just what it was.
One such problem was with Treasures. A sword, for example, could only be infused with so many Runes before it ran out of space because Runes couldn’t be compressed into a smaller size—just like they couldn’t be increased in size to be made larger.
In order to compensate for this, stronger weapons tended to also be heavier. Denser materials would be layered in thinner sheets, and Runes were hidden within their folds before new layers were added on top.
There were rare materials that were both sturdy in their thinness and capable of being used like this as well, but they were, unsurprisingly, far more expensive—and still required exceptionally skilled craftsmen to work on them.
Of course, Sylas didn’t really care about this sort of blacksmithing. And it was a problem without much of a need for a solution either.
Usually, as weapons became heavier, those that were in need of stronger Treasures were also in need of heavier weapons too.
Sure, lighter weapons were better to an extent. But how light was too light? At a certain level of strength, a weapon being lighter wasn’t helpful—it was a hindrance, or at the very least a limiter on what your real power output could be.