The Runic Alchemist

Damian had no idea how Transcendents had normal first-ranker and second-ranker wives—for them at least, not caring about hurting one another made it so much more enjoyable.

Even with Reize, Damian had to be extra careful with his increased stats. With Lucian, there were no such issues. Along with everything else, even their urges were greatly enhanced after becoming a third ranker, but then again, they also had greater ability to control their emotions. Only a great personal imbalance could make them go out of control, like it had happened with the princess of Faerunia—and another was Moondancer when he killed Threadripper.

The next day, in the big auditorium he had built in the Sanctum, Damian called the meeting of officials and informed everyone what they were going to do tomorrow. As expected, the end of war—a definitive and conclusive fight with the demons with overwhelming numbers of Transcendents—and the peace treaty were all things greatly welcomed by all. The distribution of prebuilt waygate points did make some of them start murmuring—but it wasn’t a Keeper thing or Sanctuary-owned thing. The waygate points were his own runic tech, and on that, no one had any say other than him.

Everyone volunteered to join the last battle. The Transcendents were all needed, and an army was not exactly necessary, but it was a great chance to gain experience. A few thousand wouldn’t make a difference; half their army was already there, and a few more would only make the chances of more people surviving better.

Damian only allowed for second-rankers and first-rankers with at least two jobs to join—and made it volunteer-based. Men were not truly needed; it was just for the experience.

That day, Damian just improved on his new runic lab to prepare—flying far to get good stone and then polishing it and placing it on the floor of the runic lab. The walls and ceiling, Damian just used a steel layer. It wasn’t good with temperature, but he also added vents with runic inscriptions to take cool air from outside and throw all the hot air outside. With these, it was at least a workable lab now.

He made a few things that might come in handy, such as Lucian’s request to add a waygate and wormhole spell in her soul-bound sword. Damian also added a custom high-pressure wind spell to dispel any fire spells, which she usually faced against her ice. Einar also wanted to have a waygate on her Sacrium sword targeting Evrin to always have her in reach. Sam also asked to add Grace’s waygate on his sword, seeing that. Considering what all of them had gone through—he agreed to do it.

For himself, Damian made a simple Sacrum sword. He had a spear—two, at that—but not a good sword. He had tasked Evrin to get some Sacrium from Eldoris in exchange for some of the mana stones he had accumulated in the lava zone of the pigmen world. Einar, Evrin, and Grace had sold theirs to Eldoris as well when they needed money for themselves or the Sanctuary. He did not trade much, just one high-grade spatial storage full of mixed mana stones. He had over six such storages of them, two of which were just full of pure emperor-rank mana stones.

Just one mixed high-rank storage had bought him a half-filled advanced-rank spatial storage full of Sacrium. Even though Eldoris knew why he was buying this, they did not give any unreasonable terms. Buying Sacrium from other sources was not that hard either, but having so much in such a short time was something only a royalty of a kingdom could do. Evrin did mention the Queen’s wish—that he would make something for them too. He could name his own price.

Having more indestructible weapons in this world was not a very pleasing thing for him, but guess he could make a few simple ones. Not like just because of him, the world was going to stop using the weapons or making them. More than the spells, the toughness of the Sacrum metal itself was coveted in a fight of high-level individuals such as peak second-ranker knights or third-rankers.

Damian kept his own sword also empty after shaping it and adding a handle. More than making a sword, he needed a spell that could somewhat shield against chaos element spells. His air shield, invisible box, and golden shield spell he had learned from Asher could somewhat do that, but they still got eroded if chaos spells were used for a long time on them.

The two chaos spells he had learned from Lucian and Maelor were able to do that. In fact, even Sacrum was somewhat affected if it was in contact with the chaos element for a long time—losing its effectiveness in containing mana.

All seven elements had some natural defense against at least one other element. Like fire and water, wind and earth, even light and dark. Only chaos was such a thing that was annoying to say the least. Space-time spells were not really the opposite of chaos. In fact, many people believed space-time and chaos elements were somewhat related.

Damian too would have believed that if he couldn’t see the distinction of their runic circle spell colors. The dark element was black, chaos was light black with a reddish rusty hue to it, and space-time was dark with purple in mix.

The only counter Damian could think of was the raw mana structures and aura. Raw mana structure had all seven elements mixed in it and was not easy to control or have a will over at all—only monsters like Land-breaker, who were centuries old, could exert such control over their own mana. He was somewhat an exception.

His beginning skills of Eyes of Truth and World-Shaper Hands had such cheat-like side effects that made his body oversensitive with mana—after reaching transcendence and above, the biggest gain an individual had was the fine control over one’s mana. And he had that from the beginning.

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