"Water path!" Julius thought.
The water path circle shimmered into place in front of him.
He moved it carefully onto the waiting fire.
The flames shifted again, pulling everything together until a solid furnace began to take shape.
Since the start of the refinement, he had used nine circles of different paths. The first was the time path.
The second was the wind path. The third was the fire path. The fourth was the dark path.
The fifth was the light path. The sixth was the divination path. The seventh was the ice path. The eighth was the wood path. And the ninth, the last one, was the water path.
Julius turned his eyes to the final formula. It was the gravity path. He worked quickly, making the needed changes in the circle.
The moment he finished, the fire began to change. It glowed brighter and started to tremble.
