Supreme Magus novel Chapter 783

Chapter 783 Gifts and Knowledge Part 1

"I’ve received no training about Runesmithing, but I’ve found enough relics to use as learning tools. My only problem is that I’ve no access to modern runes so..."

Sedra couldn’t understand how so many powerful creatures could favor weaklings rather than their own flesh and blood. He was young, but he had already witnessed several of his siblings and friends die.

All because their parents, the very same people who had given them life had refused to give them the knowledge that was rightfully theirs. In his eyes, the source of the Awakened’s decline wasn’t due to the progress made by fake mages.

He believed that the old fossils who had power clung to it and refused to share their knowledge with the young because they were afraid to lose their privileged position.

"I won’t stand being ignored!" Sedra roared, stomping his foot toward his mother.

Faluel’s eyes burned with power as she said:

"Be quiet." Her voice was calm and yet it carried so much power that Sedra found himself kneeling with his head on the floor. Lith was surprised noticing that she hadn’t used magic but some kind of killing intent.

"I’m really sorry for my son’s rudeness and I’m willing to explain to you the basics of the basics of Runesmithing as an apology. Do you know what’s the main difference between Warden magic and Forgemastering?" She asked.

Lith could only shake his head and admit his ignorance. The question was apparently simple, yet its answer was bound to be far from obvious.

"Warden magic uses runes to create magical formations just as Forgemasters use them to bind a metal to their will, but that’s as far as the analogy goes. A Warden uses runes to hold their energy and create extraordinary effects, whereas a Forgemaster uses them to alter the properties of a material.

"Ancient runes, the ones that are visible to the naked eye, were akin to Warden runes, placing the enchantment on the surface of the metal rather than inside of it, to not tamper with the mana pathways that the Bonding process creates.

"You can think of them as a permanent array, to complement the strength of the spells imbued within an artifact."

"Modern runes, instead, even though they are still carved on the surface of an item, they exert their energy inward rather than outward, and that’s why they are invisible to normal means.

"Also, this way they are able to alter the properties of both the metal and its mana circulatory system so that once the enchantment is applied, the final result is given from the synergy between the runes and the pseudo core.

"Old runes can only add an effect, whereas modern runes are able to blend together with the pseudo core and the mana crystals, creating something that’s greater than the sums of its single parts." Faluel said.

"Does this mean that old runes are useless?" Lith moaned at the thought that all of his findings inside Huryole were for naught.

"Gods, no." Faluel chuckled. "You can apply modern forgemastering methods with old runes. It will make them invisible and preserve their effect, but that will not change the fact that such runes are outdated.

"It would be like crafting a sword following an ancient blueprint. The sword will still cut but it can’t match a modern masterpiece, no matter how good the smith is."

The fear that had kept Sedra at bay was washed away by the shock and then by his unbridled outrage.

It wasn’t just the fact that his mother was explaining to a stranger things that she had always refused to teach him that was driving him insane, so much as the realization that the human was able to understand her words while he could not.