The bear-men began unloading the carts whilst Asclepius took a seat beside Hannibal to have a look at what they were studying.
"I would've been of more use if I still had the solar crux. Right now it kind of feels like I'm just slowing you down," Hannibal commented as Lucius attempted to run energy into one of the more complex runes.
The problem in this was that the paths weren't as intuitive as in the simpler runic circuits, and Lucius had no idea if he was actually guiding the energy in the correct direction.
What's worse is that all the complex runes they had collected were missing their mana stones. He guessed that Asclepius had found these in some sort of dumpsite for warn-out runes.
And the mana stones on the simpler runes were too small to power the more complex ones. So it seemed it was going to be a process of blindly guessing until he somehow got them to work.
