The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 675

Karl carefully opened the book and looked at the first page. The letters were unfamiliar, but the more that he looked at them, the more sense they made.

He assumed that the system would do all of the translating for him, the way that it did with spoken languages. So he simply waited, and examined the first page until it began to make sense.

It didn’t.

At least, not in any meaningful way. But most of the language was based on Runic, so Karl was slowly able to make out two thirds of what he assumed that it was saying, and then guess at the rest.

"Can you read that?" One of the clerics asked as Karl flipped to the second page.

"Mostly. It’s not a language that I would claim to know, and I get the feeling that I am missing a huge amount of context to the words as I read them. But I can follow the descriptions well enough to at least tell what it is talking about.

Now, when we get to the technical parts, that may be much more difficult. As I said, I am missing a lot of context, so as I read through the more detailed sections, I’m going to miss even more."

The first few pages were mostly just an introduction, and a crude glossary, as if the writer had assumed there would be no need to flip through the book to find a particular section, and that the reader would simply read it cover to cover until it was memorized.

That might be possible. That was how the mine bosses wanted them to treat the company handbook. But a professional tradesman wouldn’t be quite as arrogant, Karl assumed.

[For a true Dwarven Master Smith, the quality of their alloys and forging process is the key to everything. But the same cannot be said for a Dwarven Runemaster.

While a runic Dwarven weapon will always be a vast improvement on the original, greater relative gains can come from weapons that are further from the peak of perfection.

As long as it lasts, the Runic inscription will be just as effective on a low-quality blade as a master crafted one. However, it is worth noting that a poor quality blade, or an inferior blend of alloy will simply shatter if too much power is directed through it by a Runic Array.]

None of that was a shock to Karl.

What did shock Karl was the fact that it was immediately followed by a list of alloys by quality for Runic Weapon making, due to their compatibility with high mana flows.

Of all the things that he had expected it to say, he had not expected the author to put pure silver near the top, just under Mythril and a few alloys that Karl had never heard of.

Obviously, it was a lousy metal for making weapons on its own, as it was soft and wouldn’t hold an edge. But with Runes, that could be overcome, while the high mana capacity and accessibility made it more viable than any of the complex alloys on the list.

Karl made notes as he translated, in hopes that he would be able to go over them later and glean some additional meanings that he had missed the first time that he read through the book.