A month has passed:
The tension between the Song Domain grows thicker and thicker, to the point that everyone is de humanising each other in a strange and horrific way. Death is close by, waiting, licking its lips, ready to devour all its victims.
Meanwhile I continue studying the newly discovered Sorcery of strings. As I discover basic understandings of it all, most importantly, the basic weave that turns anything into a 'memory'. Though, when I tried converting my enchanted Long sword, something that took hours of preparation and work.. Withered away, destroyed and lost in the wind…
I was so, so.. SO saddened.. The culmination of all my works, studies, experimenting research, creating and perfecting a weapon, that acts, moves and works freely, with only my though and essence powering it, gone. Though I got over it, as I already wrote down the formula in a cursed looking book similar to the soul forming book.
Because of this, I started mass selling every single memory that I don't use constantly, which got me a net profit of thousands of shards. Though it sucked tremendously, I already gained any information on the memories, copying down enchantments and anchors needed, as well as mastery over such things. In that month I've also lost plenty of memories, which I quickly gain back through Redscales who constantly farms nightmare Creatures. Through this cycle I relearn that Names have important meaning in this Sorcery.
Names are just sounds. But those sounds convey deep and resounding meanings. Especially True names. Names which you discover or achieve in some shape or form, usually through nightmares. Changing Star achieved hers in her first nightmare, the biggest achievement that rivals that of her father's and Grand Father's.
And since Runic sorcery, is all about the True words, and my sword failed when adding the weave, I sort of crossed that out thinking that it wasn't important to the sorcery. But afterwards, I rediscovered how to weave names into objects.
The previous tool turned into a mechanical exoskeleton that fits like a glove on the back of my hands, to the tips of my fingers, threading in each. Through this I started reweaving my weapons, but then realised how foolish I have been about how complex it is.
Let me tell you this. Spell Tech is a technology cultivated by moderns humans for years and years, that humans have made personally and taught to each other. Runic sorcery, even though it's extremely complex and made by Hope, it's still one of the most utilised sorcery in all of human history, almost hundreds of sorcerers are based on Runic magic even if information is being closed off, it's still a widely used magic.
But Weaving sorcery, is different. Its an undocumented sorcery, with 0 information on it. It needs a lot of precursors to even learn it, being a specific type of essence and sight. It is not very user friendly, as there isn't a known concept behind it, so the pathway's it leads too are complex. The quality of materials matters a lot, so a crappier material will shatter and break, and lesser weaves will dissolve. The whole thing is incredibly complex, to the point that it rivals Shaper sorcery, the sorcery of names.
Slamming my head on the wall as well as Redscales ripping apart nightmare creatures with his bare hands has become a constant. Though I did find out that the memories from Sunny's Brilliant emporium, have black threads? As well as the ones I asked for to be buffed? But there's no way to get there without passing through God grave.. And I'd rather not die thank you very much.
Any who. I have created a memory that is hyper specialised for memory and mental activities!
"yo Shiki~"
"Luke? What are you doing here?"
"I've been doing my research and I realised, that I need that mental charm."
"oh do you want it back?"
"not entirely, I just want to look at it"
And just like that, I have a weave that removes mental drain.
Next up is to scour the memory market in Ravenheart. That way I can easily find all the different and unique memories based on mental activities and protection as well as boosts to the mind itself. Through that I found a bunch of low tier memories that have slight improvements to mental faculties and protection.
Using the portable storage memory I got from the emporium, I was able to transfer materials from Redscales back to home base, letting it be processed by Thornhelm after that Silverworn, polished them, and since it would be a charm that would be constantly used, I decided to turn it into a grill.
I know its strange, but think about it. Your teeth are very protected from all harms and danger, the only way you would break it is if a mace gets launched into your mouth, so either way, your dead.
The grill isn't obnoxious, only giving me a metal frame around my gums and a small plate between each teeth. So I had little room to work with.
Though the small size, made it so I can have multiple replicas, which made it easy to practice over and over.
Through each weave, I learnt I can easily recreate it, but the size, shape and anchor placement would constantly change.
The difference in Runic enchanting and Weaving enchanting is that Runic is flat, being 2d, while Weaving is 3d, circling the entire weapon. Through that, I had to get used to learning how to weave through space, to the point I desired to make extra arms to help in this process, but I didn't.
Through countless trials and errors, I realised that I can only make a tier 3 memory, but I can at least make it out of corrupted material, making it possible to make Transcendent class.
But that was impossible, since I've only been working with Fallen and lower, and only been glancing at the weaves of my transcendent rather than touching them, too scared to break anything, as I lost hundreds of Song Coins worth of equipment and material. Even if my research is useful, I'm still a greedy guy.
After constant manipulation of the Weaves and through intricate understanding, I have come to a conclusion. That this type of sorcery is utterly ambitious, as well as insane in its concept. Wanna know why???? "there is no Fucking Concept!!!"
I've been slamming my head over and over and over and over and over… my head has been beaten in several times. But after so much deliberation, this type of sorcery is impossible… yet it somehow is!!!
Like what do you mean, enchants can, heal, revive, give mental protection, give soul protection, create a replica of living beings!!! The sorcery is literally has 0 concept behind it. Runic sorcery, is the written form of Shaper sorcery, also the scope, even though large, pales in comparison to Weaving sorcery!! While Shaper sorcery can imbue your will into words, giving it authority on the world. I think.
So why does this have infinite possibilities????
I get up after writing down my rant about this sorcery. Something so utterly complex, foolish and impossible, yet used in our everyday lives. 'there are rules to this world, so what is yours?'
I sigh, and realise how long I've been experimenting and tinkering. I feel like a hobbit, a cave dweller, a roach.
I step outside, so does Silverworn and Thornhelm, I stretch and start doing fruit ninja but with stones.
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I'm reaching a point where I can confidently say I can best a master in a fight. A 4 on one, with a master is a cake walk, with my special arsenal, my coordination I can take on 2 to 3 masters. But one on one I am truly confident now. With 4 lines of thought focusing on things separately, I can continually charge my essence, read my opponents movements, dodge with perfection by controlling my body, as well as think about what memory, could finish this quickly. Not to mention [Devilishly Gifted] has reached a monstrous stage. To the point where my body could contend with nightmare creatures of the same level.
But this is all for naught, since a great war with sovereigns is going to occur in a week from now.
"what should I do?" currently the 2 options available is to either go into hiding with my cousin, or join the war in a way that death isn't possible.
"I did say I could make 3 clones, so why not make another 1 and solely act through clones in the war?" plus I can easily be used as a communication device across long distances, and provide strategic support whenever anyone is in danger right?
With that said I send all my clones to hunting, while I sit at home and study memories. The new clone being named.. New clone, as I don't have any good ascended armor to hand out.