"What's next?" He asked Menadion with a peculiar relaxed smile she recognized from a mile away, making her turn green with envy.
'I've been celibate since Threin died, you damn bastard! Show some empathy.' Ripha thought.
"Runes." She actually said. "Picture Creation Magic like a set of stairs. The first steps are mana crystals, then runes, and lastly pseudo and power cores. The order is relevant because what you learn in the early steps is carried on to the next."
A wave of her hand conjured a couple of Orichalcum staves covered in runes, with no crystals and no pseudo core.
"Begin."
Lith and Solus examined the artifact for a while and then said:
"Some of these runes make no sense. They form no enchantment and are merely decorative. Why did you use them?"
