Chapter 629: Pressure Lines


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    Ss stood weakly. His arm was still a mangled mess, but at the very least, he was no longer oozing puss.


    The fleshly wounds were a secondary problem. The main issue was the fragmented state of his arm. He couldn''t count the number of hairline fractures he had suffered, and worse than that, the ckened ws seemed to be in a state of limbo.


    They had been somewhat saved by the Blood Essence it absorbed from the chimera. But as Ss had already seen, Rotten creatures were basically living dead existences. They had no Will of their own, and they certainly didn''t have Blood Essence in spades.


    As such, the ckened ws were in a state of dormancy, and for all intents and purposes, destroyed.


    But what made the situation troubling was that in order to increase the Durability once more, Ss needed to summon them to attack and kill something. How could he fix them if he couldn''t do that?


    ''I will have to find time to see if I can use Extricate directly. But...''


    This was the obvious solution, especially now that Ss could use Extricate on Blood Essence as well. But there was a reason why the intelligent Ss hadn''t thought of attempting to do this already.


    Demons and Demonic things seemed to have an odd path of their own, one that the system didn''t seempatible with.


    It couldn''t be forgotten that Ss didn''t drive his Profession Talents on his own, much like how he didn''t drive his skills on his own.


    It was the system that granted his Legendary Path Professions that he could make use of. Unless he could supercede the system, it would be useless.N?v(el)B\\jnn


    But Extricate was tooplicated of a Talent, so much so that it made the Gene Skills Ss had mastered feel insignificant. It would have to be to have controlling something asplex as Genes as its lowest level ability.


    For now, it seemed that until he found a solution, or a work-around, the ckened ws would be out ofmission. At the very least, they had yed their crucial role well, giving him the boost to his Strength he needed in those final moments.


    Ss threw a gaze out at Cole and Alex who were nursing their wounds. Quite frankly, Alex seemed to be the only entirely uninjured one among them. Ss had to remind himself that The truly couldn''t underestimate the members of Legacy.


    ''There should be something else here...''


    Even after blowing up so many golems, the tform was perfectly fine. The bits and pieces of the golems had scattered into the waters, leaving the tform, aside from the regions that had been circled by the chains, rtively clear.


    Ss walked to the diamond-etched Runes that lined the outer ring of the golden tform. He frowned.


    ''Veryplex... but also very simple... it''s like the scorpion armor all over again...''


    A single etching wasn''t the full story. Any one of them couldn''t even be considered a full Rune. They only had ten or so Foundations each, and though there wereplete Runes that existed with that sort of low count of Foundations, these seemed purposely left iplete.


    It was another form of Rune Mastery that Ss had never seen before.


    ''I understand. This tform is only one half of the equation. There''s likely a connecting tform elsewhere that pletes" these Runes. If I look at it like that, then...''


    Ss'' gaze shed and his visualization enveloped the tform, taking into ount all the Runes at once.


    There were exactly 100 of them, drawn particrlyrge as well. Beneath the lights, they shimmered with a rainbow of colors, their diamond structure refracting everything that came into contact with it.


    Rune Essence whispered into Ss'' ears. Once again, he found listening to Runes in this world was far easier. It was like he had been running with a 50-pound weight vest on that had suddenly dropped to 10.


    Just seeing half the Runes, and knowing there was another side to it, his mind seemed to work on its own, understanding the Essence and filling in the gaps.


    ''Most of these Runes are here to amplify... they project Will from one location to another, the other side presumably being where the Thryskai''s real body is...''


    Ss separated the Runes into three tiers. Amplification, location, and finally... odd vessel Runes that stored and transported the Will.


    What was fascinating was that these transporting Runes had the ability to almost make Will more tangible.


    Ss forgot for a moment that he was supposed to be trying to find a mystery here. He was enraptured by this third tier of Rune.


    They were only 20 or so Foundations, but they opened up an entirely new world to him. Unlike the professionally trained Rune Masters on the list he had identally ended up on, Ss had never received systematic training. He didn''t even know foundational Runes but had somehow jumped to have 70 Foundation Runes in his arsenal.


    These 20 Foundation Runes, two halves of 10 Foundations, were like amp clicking open in his head.


    They taught the foundations on how to guide his Will.


    Contrary to what he had assumed, he didn''t need Aetherflow at all to guide his Will. It was just that that had been the only method he had.


    Ss'' gaze shed, but this time, it wasn''t just a random act of his Will. Instead, a pair of 20 Foundation Runes appeared in his irises.


    BOOM!


    The air before Ss'' face shuddered and almost seemed to crack apart.


    Thin lines of green-violet filled the space around him, and Alex, who had just been trying to meditate to steady himself, coughed up a mouthful of blood that was presumably blocked by his mask and swayed in his seating position.


    Ss was stunned.


    These lines that filled the skies as though a great gravitational weight was descending from above, like the world was about to crack apart beneath his presence...


    Hadn''t these been the same that appeared from that statue?