I managed to successfully follow Mia to a room where there were several very creative rune arrangements, they should serve for training and practice for rune craftsmen who want to practice disarming and modifying rune arrangements.
"Well, let's start with our training but before we start the practical part, we have to get to know each other's style better and I also think you've never worked as a team in this kind of area, or am I wrong?"
"No, you're right I've never worked together with another rune craftsman, the closest I've had was my teacher correcting my work, but I think it's quite different."
"Okay, I'm not going to treat you like an incompetent rookie because from the reports I've had the opportunity to snoop on about your quests, you're pretty competent but not how you get an orthodox training in runes and achieve the skill you have in yours. age. I know you have your secrets, but in order for us to work as a team we need to know our partner's skills."
"That's why I prepared a mid-level mana contract, you can see how serious the matter is since this item is not simple or cheap. Unlike the low-level contracts this one has the power to grievously injure if not kill a red core warrior, even those with the blue core that focuses on fortifying their body can suffer wounds that can injure them in a grievous way they may not be able to recover. for the rest of your life, the life element cannot heal wounds done by a contract of this level and quality."
This scroll is dangerous, the divine power within it is frightening this is the first time I can't see divine power but I can feel it. And what I'm feeling in this scroll reminds me so much of the element of death and curse more and even more intense and cruel than the energies of those elements I felt before, I don't know which priest made this contract scroll, but I know your god didn't is a good god.
"This contract was made with a paper created from a considerable number of herbs other than the curse element, and the priest who wrote it was a devotee of a chaotic goddess."
"What goddess?"
"You shouldn't ask that, Ulric."
"Why?"
"Because to protect yourself from divine contracts you can use other tools that contain divine power from a god opposite to the contract, Ulric. Only the highest-level divine power can destroy the divine contract, but protecting from the divine contract is easier. Do you understand why it shouldn't be asking about the god or goddess who made the contract now?"
"Okay, what are the terms of the contract going to be?"
"Simple, it's not good to make complicated contracts because the more words go into it the stronger and the divine power of the mark, having too many marks or having a mark with the divine power too strong can damage your control over your aura and elemental energy."
"This contract will run for a period of ten years, Ulric. That and enough time for the war to end is you getting stronger, you won't be stronger than me but I'll be strong enough to mind your own business in the worst possible scenario, but honestly, I'm smart that when the contract expires, we have earned each other Ulric's friendship and respect."
"Even if one of us dies the divine mark of the contract will be undone in ten years, in the contract the rules will basically be like this: neither one of us can reveal the secrets about runes or directly linked to the ability to forge, manipulate and destroy runes and energy flows from the other without their direct permission. The designs of rune arrays and matrices that we share may not be published by the other party or used for commercial purposes without the other's permission."
"Finally, neither of us can harm the other during a cooperation involving runes. I would even like to write that we couldn't attack each other or try to kill each other, but that would not be realistic, Raven likes the unit to be a family and I agree with her but if I received a direct order to kill you, I would kill you. Ulric is not a person at all and I hope you understand my position."
I think I'm going to like Mia more than I expected, I think I'll have no problem trusting her for a while. If she'd told me to trust her completely, I'd already be coming up with a plan to kill her.
It's impossible to trust someone who says they won't cheat on you in any way.
"I understand and I have no problem with any of those terms, Mia."
"Well, I'm going to start writing the contract."
This was the first time I've seen a contract of this level being used, and it's impressive that I'm not able to see this divine power so strong or maybe it's because it's different than normal, but when Mia wrote the words in the contract, I could see the sparks of divine power come out of the contract.
She really went out of her way to use few words in the contract, but I wasn't able to see a single flaw in the simplified text of the contract. But the scythe as a coat of arms on the contract tells me that the god or goddess of the contract is related to the element of death and the black detail like feathers tells me that the shadow element is also in the domain of that deity.
Maybe it would be wise for me to study the marks of deities that are usually used in magical contracts, Raven already told us to read the encyclopedia of symbols of evil deities in order to recognize our enemies, but I guess I'll have to study more about the gods.
Mia spent more than half an hour to finish writing the contract, she may have used a few words plus the speed she's writing them and it's greatly reduced her normal. And as if her pen is writing in the caked mud than a smooth sheet of parchment.
"Ready. Now just sign."
Unlike Mia writing the contract it wasn't difficult for me to sign my name on it, maybe it's something like carving a rune. Pasting the intent into the words of the contract is different than marking it with your signature. The contract turned to ash after Mia Skylark wrote her name on it, but these ashes had a slightly different shape than normal they actually looked like black feathers spreading through the air.
I felt a ring around my core, his pressure was very slight, but I couldn't help but focus my attention on him. I think this will bother me a little, maybe I should avoid doing contracts like this in the future.
"Now we can talk to each other without a single worry, shall I start or do you want to go first?"
"Ladies first."
"Good choice. I specialize in illusory matrices, to be precise I focus my traps on disorientation and alarms I'm not focused on the physical characteristics that rune traps can have, but I can still make quality traps good enough to kill or severely injure warriors of green core and they are quite difficult to detect."
Interestingly, it's quite unusual for someone to focus on arrangements that cloud the enemy's senses, normally this type of runemaster does not act on the battlefield but spends his time making large and complex arrays in bases or for commercial purposes.
"But as you know the biggest contribution, we are going to make is not to create rune arrays and rune matrices for the purpose of protecting a base, but to interfere with our targets' rune arrays. I have great experience in this case and normally you would be a basic assistant."
"Your job would be to use your aura to do whatever I tell the enemy matrices to do, like keep the changes I make to a stream of energy from becoming permanent without having to engrave a single rune there. Basically, you would serve as a smart rune tool."
"But you're not that useless after all, from the reports it's obvious that you have a very accurate perception of how enemy rune arrays and matrices work and this allows you to disarm or disrupt sets with great efficiency, despite your little experience."
"So, in order not to waste your talent, you and I need to communicate well, which is very complicated to do in my battlefield where we must be silent so not only will I teach you a silent code to communicate with, but we will practice a lot."
"The first thing you'll learn is how you don't screw with the other's work; it won't be that difficult because I'm a mage and you're used to interacting with mana from a rune arrangement. It's a little different when mana is being controlled by someone else, but it's still not that different when it's a fighter's aura, in the future when you team up with another fighter, you'll understand how irritating it is to have a fighter's aura. warrior by your side."
"Let's start with this rune arrangement here."
So began the several hours of training with Mia, even though we had little time to study and practice today before we had to leave the base. That would be my routine for the next few weeks, it took a long time for me and Mia to really work as a duo.
It was much easier for me to record what I see with my perception and pass that information on to her than it was for us to work together on the same target.