Chapter 195 Engraving The Rune

Engraving the rune

[Ace POV],

I started working on the earth rat leg after cutting off the leg part I needed from the earth rat corpse and taking the remaining monster corpse of the earth rat to my storage ring.

Because I only needed the leg bone, I had to separate the skin and meat from the bone inside, and, let's just say, the process was bloody.

The magic steel knife was also more shapely than expected.

Probably because the monster was already dead, killing the majority of its defensive system.

With this thought in mind, I continued with what I was doing, and when I finished, the table was already a bloody mess, but my mind wasn't on this and was on something else.

My attention was drawn to the object in my hand, which was the bone I had just harvested, but looking at the shape and state of the bone, I knew there was still some work to be done, so I sat back in my chair and began smoothing the bone to the model I sketched and the image I had in my head with the magic steel knife in my hand.

The process was a little difficult, but I had the magic steel knife to help me out. However, because I had to be careful with the bone in my hand because it was the object I was going to engrave a rune on, I had to spend a few dozen minutes carefully shaping the bone dagger into something similar to my sketch model.

After that, I wiped the blood from the bone with my hand before dragging my chair to the table that held the stove, pot, bottled blood, crystal powder, and bowl to complete another step in rune making.

The next step was to create ink for inscribing and engraving the inscriptions and runes on the bone dagger, which required me to first process the materials in front of me.

The first step was to turn on the magic stove by putting a crystal core in a hole that was already available on its top right in the middle of it, and I bought a crystal core from my storage ring before putting it in the available hole.

The ring on top of the stove began to emit heat immediately after this was done.

Seeing this, I knew the stove was already in use and using the controller by the side of the magic stove to heat up to a higher rate than it had previously been set at.

I didn't have to remove the crystal core from the stove.

The mana in the crystal core had to be completely exhausted, which would take a very long time, or I could simply use the controller I was using now to completely extinguish the heat emitted.

But really, using a rank 1 crystal core for a stove screams waste, but since I didn't know a lot of other things that crystal cores could be used for besides the important ones I already knew, this action didn't bother me too much.

As I considered this, I placed the ordinary steel pot on top of the heating ring and, after a few seconds, poured two bottles of blood into the pot. Immediately after this action, a strange sound came from the pot.

It sounded much harsher than oil heating in a frying pan.

I had to wait for the deep red blood in the pot to turn light red, according to my basic alchemy knowledge.

I had to endure the strange odor that came from boiling a monster's blood during this process.

It wasn't that the smell was unpleasant; rather, it was intoxicating.

I'd never been intoxicated before, but I recognized the warning signs, and the fact that I was affected simply by smelling the fragrance that came from the boiling pot said a lot.

Interesting.

While waiting for the blood in the boiling pot to turn light red, I finally summoned the primordial chronicle in my head to purchase the materials I had neglected to purchase until now.

The problem was that I needed to make ink, which was a magical liquid, but boiling monster blood would instead cause the mana in the blood to slowly dissipate, and by the time the monster blood was light red, most of the mana in the blood would have already been gone.

The materials I was going to buy next came into play at this point.

The materials I was referring to were all herbs, and they were reasonably priced, so I purchased them in bulk.

To grind the herbs, I also needed to purchase a Wooden Mortar and Pestle.

After I confirmed my will through the primordial chronicle to purchase the materials and items I required, I immediately went to work after the item materialized.

Because I brought the herbs in a batch that was far too large for a single ink-making process, I used the magic steel knife to cut out the parts I needed before grinding them together with the sizable mortar and pestle. After that, I added a little crystal powder to the mix in the amount specified in the basic alchemy knowledge.

As I continued to mix the concoction in my hands and waited for the blood in the pot to turn light red, which appeared to be only seconds away, I immediately poured the contents of the concoction I made into the pot as the intoxicating fragrance of before suddenly increased by a few levels, causing me to feel lightheaded for a few seconds.

But after a few seconds, I was strangely able to get used to it and went to the next step in my rune-making process, which was to crave the rune like which will act as mana pathways for the inscriptions and rune to link, and for this, I took my knife and the bone dagger to the table that had the sketch of the bone dagger.

My visualisation.

Inscriptions and runes are engraved in two steps.

The first step was to crave the rune lines, inscriptions, and rune to lay the foundation, and the final step was to use ink to seal the rune lines, inscriptions, and rune.

Though these two steps seemed simple, they were actually the most difficult and slighty complex part of rune making because they determined the state of the object of the rune and whether it would be a success or failure.

As a result, I was extra cautious about what I was going to do next.

I had plenty of time anyway because the concoction I made with low-grade magic herbs and a little crystal powder will take a while to transform into the rune ink I'll use later, according to basic alchemy knowledge.

It took about 30 minutes to an hour, and by the time the ink was ready, I would smell it.

This is what basic alchemy knowledge stated.

As I was thinking about these things, I carefully carved everything I had sketched on the plain scroll before on the bone dagger, and I think I was taking longer than I expected because I wanted to make sure I didn't make any mistakes.

But I had no way of knowing due to me being inexperienced.

As I thought about these things, I continued to crave what I had previously sketched on the bone, and when I was finished, I let out a sigh as I rested my back against the chair I was sitting on, and just as I was about to take a short rest, a strange fragrance that was smoothing passed me.

When I saw this, I immediately knew what was causing this, and without further delay, I dragged my chair to the table where the magic stove was, and when I stood up to check the contents of the boiling pot, I was met with a black liquid.

When I saw this, I immediately turned off the stove.

The black liquid was a sign of a successfully made rune ink, and since everything was left to do was just engrave the rune next, I waited for the pot to cool a little and poured a little of its content into the bowl I brought using its handle, and after that was done, I took the bowl, brush, and crystal powder bottle to the table where the sketch of everything I'd done and the bone dagger was.

I was finally at the end, so I had to make sure I didn't make a mistake this time, or else all my hours of work would be for naught.

I don't expect to succeed on the first try, but it would be good if it did.

As I considered this, I performed the first action in accordance with the step in my head by rubbing the bone dagger all over with crystal powder.

According to my basic alchemy knowledge, this makes the object about to be inscribed with inscriptions and runes sensitive to mana.

I don't understand the theory behind it, but as long as it works, that's all that matters.

My research will have to wait for another day because I was too busy engraving the rune lines, inscriptions, and rune on the bone dagger.

This was done with complete concentration, and as soon as I finished the last step of connecting the rune lines and inscription with the rune using the rune ink, the 'ASB#' rune began to emit light.

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