As if the situation was repeating itself, a simple "Eh" came out of Blake's mouth. The same thing had already happened to him when Marjorie had told him that she wanted to turn him into a Six-rune wizard and, although he was still a little skeptical, he ended up agreeing to do his best and not disappoint his master, but not even a week had passed when his other master wanted to make him a Runic emperor.
Blake didn't even understand exactly how difficult the path is to achieve those goals, but he really trusted the judgment of his masters, plus he had the help of the system, thinking about it, he felt that it wouldn't be really difficult.
"Would I be able to pull it off?"
"Of course, you also said that Marjorie would make you a Six-rune wizard, I can't just sit idly by while you specialize in magic, do you think anyone could break through five levels on the runic path that easily, it's obvious that it wasn't just luck, it's very likely that you also have a great talent for the runic path."
"Well, I really don't know if I did something special, I just felt how my body was filled with elemental essence and I directed it to the core inside me, then I could notice how my body became stronger and my runic energy increased."
"That's the basic way to advance the runic path, you have to accumulate enough elemental essence to break a new level, and thanks to that I can tell that the runes you absorbed had a stronger than normal amount of energy, that strange element that you mentioned may be more special than you think, well, let's leave that for now, I still have things to mention to you."
"What things?"
"The ones related to the runic path, you already noticed how your body was strengthened after all that, besides, maybe Marjorie didn't mention it to you, but it should be the same case if you became a runic. You just trying to focus and sense your surroundings, I'm sure you'll notice something unique." Without hesitation, Blake did as Shino told him, and once, he concentrated on trying to do it, he could understand what she meant.
A totally new sight appeared in front of him, it was as if he could see and feel everything around him at that moment, the range was no more than about two meters, but it was enough for him to be surprised.
"From your reaction, I can tell that you managed to feel it."
"This is amazing, it feels like I can see everything around me even if I close my eyes!"
"That's what we call 'Rök', thanks to the runes that remain everywhere, you can use the same ones that are part of your elemental affinity to feel everything around you, and the rök is like seeing the world of runes, it's incredibly useful and I would recommend you practice it continuously, you're only in the realm of runic awakening right now so the range you can feel shouldn't be too great, but once you get stronger this It will also increase… Although I don't know how it will affect you since you're also a wizard." As he heard the explanation, Blake could tell that he could actually feel a special connection with the runes around him and he reminded himself to practice this rök later.
Blake spent a few more seconds enjoying the mystical sight, but he realized that Shino had more to say to him.
"The following you should already have a basic idea, but I must explain, each realm of the runic path is divided into ten levels, each level is more difficult to overcome than the previous one, and this was the reason for my surprise to see that you easily reached the fifth level of runic awakening. Once you reach the tenth level, the next thing would be to advance to the next realm, which in your case would be the primary runic realm, but the important thing to know is that to advance from one realm it is not as easy as just accumulating elemental essence, but I think it's still too early to talk about this, it will be better to tell you when the time comes and not worry unnecessarily." Although Blake found the last thing that she said a bit strange, he did not ask anything as he absorbed the information that was transmitted to his master.
"And lastly, I guess it's something you expected... You should be able to learn to use runic abilities by now." Hearing that, emotion resurfaced in Blake, with everything that happened he had forgotten about that point and was for asking Shino if he could finally try to learn the ability he had with him, but he couldn't do it when she said something that still surprised him. "And for having successfully entered the runic path, it is my obligation as a master to give you a small gift of congratulations."
After she said that, Shino walked away from her confused disciple until she had come within a few meters of a huge rock and had her back to him.
"Since you specialize in using a short sword, I thought this would be the best for you, I need you to pay full attention so that you can fully grasp it and notice all the movements and the necessary process." Without clearing the doubts that Blake very possibly had, Shino had just taken out a small sword from her sack as she took a simple attack stance and it seemed that a light green aura began to surround her before she let out a scream. "Power wave!"
To Blake's eyes, it seemed that Shino had only just swung her sword, but just then, a huge wave of flames was generated from it and shot in the direction of the huge rock only to be split in two by the power behind that attack.
Blake's mouth was open, it was not his first time seeing attacks of this type, he had already seen the spell that Gaius used in the Privera forest, but seeing that his master actually used her sword to generate that beam of fire, he was completely shocked sure that it was a runic ability and once it finished, a smile appeared on his face at the voice he had just heard.