Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1077

Chapter 1077 Bytra’s Legacy Part 1

"Forgemastering requires not to shape the core, but to build it with the proper set of runes according to your needs. To overcome the limits of fake mages, you must imbue the runes made out of Spirit Magic with your willpower, or the mana will fall apart."

"Fuck me sideways! I can’t believe I did it wrong the entire time." Lith’s yell drew the attention of the class to himself.

He knew the runes of the regular Skinwalker armor like the back of his hand, having crafted dozens of them between practice and prototypes. Several strings of runes floated in front of him, almost resembling a musical score.

Lith removed a few runes, replaced some, and rearranged others, forming the four pseudo cores that comprised the enchantments of the Skinwalker armor. They weren’t just perfect in shape and size, but also their mana flow was stronger and smoother.

"Exactly like that." Faluel clapped her hands. "That would be the Verhen’s Skinwalker armor, but if I were you, I’d add a fifth core to give it my personal touch. Something to really make it my own."

’By my maker! The good news is that thanks to the thorough study of runes we did until now, we can easily step up our game. The bad news is that we wasted a lot of time.

’Manipulating and combining the runes in our books to achieve new effects would have been much easier than studying the pseudo cores since we had to reverse engineer even the small stuff.’ Solus had never felt so dumb before.

"Why did Protector never tell me about this?" Lith was on the verge of tears with frustration.

"Because he didn’t know. I’m breaking this to you only because otherwise you’ll be stuck with your crappy Runesmithing. Are you done whining or do you need a moment to collect yourself?" Faluel hated to be interrupted.

Lith repressed all the rage and the self-loathing he felt, hoping that Faluel’s teachings would allow him to make up for the lost time.

"Where was I? Oh, yes. Runes are the language of magic. It doesn’t matter if you form them with your mouth and hands like fake mages or with your mind like true mages.

"It doesn’t even matter if you arrange them in a temporary form like a Warden does or in a permanent item like a Forgemaster. What you have to understand is that, by arranging them in the correct order and infusing them with willpower, you can achieve infinite effects.

"During your fifth year at the White Griffon, you learned about the Bonding spell. It allows you to fuse magic crystals to an item to boost their powers." Faluel placed a communication amulet in front of the class and activated her breathing technique.

"Magic Crystals grant a mana flow to inanimate objects, by creating what we call a mana circulatory system. Always remember that only living beings offer little resistance to mana, whereas objects lacking a core are damaged by a strong flow of mana."

The mana circulatory system was akin to a network of veins, that spread the mana coming from both the pseudo core and the gemstone throughout the amulet.

"This is the only part where true and fake magic are identical. We all add gemstones because otherwise even metals like Orichalcum wouldn’t stand too many pseudo cores without crumbling and because powerful spells need a power source."

’At least I did that part right.’ At those words, Lith sighed in relief.