Gideon and Victoria spent two days practicing how to draw the three basic runes Sia had shown, and their proficiency had grown massively.
Currently, their proficiency had reached the point that they could immediately casta rune as long as they imbued astral energy into their hands.
At this moment, there were literally thousands of bind, weight and paralyze runes all over the floor that covered a few hundred meters worth of space.
This time, Gideon no longer needed to use the arduous process of imagining and slowly drawing the runes.
He put his hand on the ground and there was a flash of green before a slow rune appeared. He then did it two more times with the weight and paralyze runes.
'Alright, I can create the runes instantly now. ' Gideon nodded to himself in satisfaction. It took some time and a lot of energy, he managed to pull it off.
Meanwhile, Victoria had also managed to achieve instant rune creation, it was just that unlike placing them on the floor like Gideon, they were on her hands.
*SHATTER*
Victoria punched the ground with her right hand and it immediately shattered and was covered in cracks.
*BANG*
She punched with her left fist and this time, a deep hole that penetrated for dozens of meters appeared deep in the ground.
*RIIIIP*
This time, she made a clawing gesture and clawed at the ground, and instead of claw marks appearing, the ground itself seemed to get pulled apart creating a deep fissure inside.
Victoria silently nodded to herself as she stared a the three runes on her gauntlets with satisfaction.
'They've already mastered these runes in just two days. I think I'm becoming numb to their surprises at this point.' Sia smiled bitterly in her heart as she watched the duo breeze through the runes like it was no big deal.
While Sia was solving the bitterness in her heart, Gideon who had been contemplating on other ways to use his runes suddenly had an idea.
'Hmm, what if i do this?' The thought as he placed the three runes in a triangular formation. The bind rune was at the top, the weight rune at the bottom left, and the paralyze rune at the bottom right.
After that, the drew a line of astral energy from one rune to another forming a triangle before circling each rune. And then from there he started to draw a circle that touched each of the encircled runes.
'Triangle to bind them to one another, encircling each one to lengthen their effects, and finally... ' Gideon completed the circle and looked at it in satisfaction.
'Circle to amplify their effects.' He finished the thought as he felt that the energy output from the circle increased several fold unlike when they were individual.
'I could add different poisons to this so that whoever gets caught in it would not have a good time. Moreover, I can use camouflaged poison to hide its presence.' Gideon pondered and the more he thought about it, the bugger the smile on his face grew.
"Huh?" Sia made a sound as she suddenly felt a denser amount of astral energy coming from Gideon and it was definitely higher his ordinary runes.
'What is-' She turned to Gideon to see what he was doing, but what she saw made her eyes tremble.
Gideon sat down cross legged with his hand on his chin as he pondered about something, but she didn't care about that. What she did care about however was the construction of runes on the floor.
'This. Did this boy make a magic circle?! ' Sia exclaimed in her heart upon seeing it on the ground.
'It's a bit crude, but it's a magic circle nonetheless. How did he make this already? That was meant to be for the later stages.' Sia's tails swayed along with her thoughts. She thought that she was already numb to the surprises that the duo kept giving her, but she was wrong.
As Sia was questioning her own existence, Gideon decided to test the effects of the magic circle.
He made a faceless human shaped doll with poison that was about the same height as a nine year old kid and made it run into the magic circle without stopping.
It went with about the same speed as a normal human and the moment it stepped on the magic circle, dozens of poison strings bursted out and tightly wrapped around the doll. Gideon made the doll struggle, but he felt it becoming harder to control as its movements began to slow down before eventually stopping altogether.
(Gideon made the doll contain the base poison he controlled and did it in such a way that the effects of the circle would still affect it.)
Gideon was happy with the effects of the magic circle and ideas suddenly started popping into his head.
'Can I stack these? What if I just lay down a bunch of them and someone steps on them. Can I make the effect stronger if I make it bigger...' Numerous ideas formed in his mind and apart from the second one, he put the others into practice.
He first decided to see if he could stack them and to his joy, he found out that he could, unfortunately it would collapse if he tried to stack it more than three times.
'it seems like the more I stack them, the more the energy of each individual circle disrupts the others making them unstable. I need to find a way to stabilize them. ' Gideon concluded after some thought and decided to move on to the second idea.
This time, he began to draw enlarged versions of the runes on the floor that were five times bugger than the previous ones. And just like before, he began to connect them using his astral power, just that it was much bigger and took much more energy.
After about ten minutes of drawing since creating big circles was hard, Gideon finally created the enlarged magic circle and he could feel that the energy coming from it was way denser than its predecessor.
And to test it, Gideon casually pulled out a tree that was as thick as a water basin from the ground and threw in on top of the larger magic circle.
Immediately, at least a hundred threads emerged from the circle and tightly bound the tree.
'Success.' Gideon pumped his fist into the air as his experiment succeeded.
Sia looked at Gideon from her rock and sighed before looking into the sky.
'I'm getting old.' She thought as she shook her head. Needless to say, her confidence received a huge blow.
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No chapter yesterday because of sickness.