Chapter 190: Chap.187 - Runes

Rigel's newfound talent was indeed useful, although it didn't currently show any obvious effects. It was clear that while practicing dark magic in the Dragon's Dream, the effect on him was much smaller, almost imperceptible, and even if he didn't use the coffin to remove the corruption, he would slowly return to normal if he rested enough.

It was a good thing, although none of the rituals to strengthen the soul that he possesses could be used yet, it would still be of great help in the future.

Rigel also tried to see if resistance to dark magic had any influence on his mutated Animagus form after drinking the Monster Vitamin. Unfortunately, the result was negative, the Animagus spirit still completely influenced him. It became clear that this was not corruption from dark magic, but probably pure primitive instinct linked to the animal soul.

It wasn't a situation of the animagus spirit trying to take over the body, at least not yet with the current strength of his soul, it was more as if the strength of the animagus spirit increased the influence of its innate characteristics on Rigel.

It was annoying, but Rigel couldn't think of a good solution at the moment, so he put it aside and started focusing on something else, the Central Pearl.

This thing was a source of high magical energy, although Rigel felt that due to the current restrictions on the Order of this world it would likely affect the Central Pearl, Rigel planned to try to build at least one to take to the next world of adventure.

Until then, the Central Pearl could truly demonstrate its usefulness.

Rigel acquired the knowledge of how to construct it directly as soon as he obtained the reward for the conquest, however, it was not simply knowledge attached to his mind, but he was able to understand every part of the formation and every function of each Rune.

Rigel didn't start by trying to build one directly, first, he picked up a book on basic ancient runes from the library and compared it to the knowledge he had received, trying to understand how the runes of this world differed from the world of POTC.

The result was that, in fact, there was quite a difference.

The runes in the Harry Potter universe acted as programming, almost like a language, spells translated into their written form, possessing magical power in themselves. If you used a word, it could mean one thing, if you used that same word with another word, it could mean something else, and so on.

These runes relied more on the intention behind engraving them than on being fixed in themselves, so although the ancient runes were functional, they weren't the only model that could be used, for example, the runes used by goblins were different.

The runes in the world of POTC were different, in Rigel's view, the runes were more like words of nature, probably because these runes were based on divine knowledge and followed order rather than chaos.

In other words, each rune was like a written version of nature itself, there were no changes or alterations. The runes likely existed before the gods and were simply understood by them.

Rigel couldn't say for sure, and even when he asked Calypso, she didn't know much about it either, except that her divine source was indeed inscribed with runes.

In practical terms, engraving runes in this world is much easier than engraving runes in the world of POTC.

For the magical world runes, you can simply express your intention, the ancient runes are much easier to imprint that intention on because these letters have already been marked by the world itself. According to the book's explanation, the runes had power because wizards believed they had power.

It came from an ancient collective knowledge passed down through the river of history, even if all the wizards disappeared, the runes could still hold power because they had already been incorporated into the world.

Thus, the book about runes explained that although you could technically simply write Wingardium Leviosa on a piece of paper so that it could fly, the proficiency in rune engraving and the amount of intention needed to be extremely high for that.

Something that few wizards could actually do these days.

Inscribing the ancient runes directly, on the other hand, did not have this problem, just like wand gestures and spell words, as long as they were written correctly, even without perfect intention, the effect could still be materialized.

On the other hand, the runes of POTC, which Rigel eventually called Divine Runes, required divine power to engrave them, not only that, but it also required that the god, demigod, or any other being with divine energy could understand the concept before writing the rune, or that they learned to write the rune perfectly, filling it with pure divine power, to the point of making it resonate with nature and, finally, extracting the concept on their own.

It was evident that the knowledge Rigel received was of the second type, he had not grasped the concept, but precisely because of the static form of the Divine Runes, as long as the writing was complete and divine power was infused, the runes could extract their own origin, that is, their initial concept. Just like when Rigel recharged the Central Pearl of Atlantis back then, as long as there was divine energy, the runes continued to function.

Of course, compared to writing and loading, understanding the concept itself is far more powerful, so much so that, under normal circumstances, it wouldn't even need to be recharged, functioning for eternity.

If Rigel were to use the first method and wanted to write 'water', he would first need to understand the exact meaning of water, not the philosophical kind like 'water is life', but truly delve into the origin of water, and finally comprehend it, in order to finally record it.

Difficult, extremely difficult.

Calypso said that learning and internalizing merely the origin of one rune was enough for a demigod to become a god in ancient times. That alone demonstrates the difficulty of learning such things.

However, as long as he used the second method, simply engraving the runes and filling them with neutral divine power, it would still work.

The usefulness of this method is that, unlike runes from the magical world, it doesn't require intention, only precision and power.

Leaving that aside, the fact that divine power could not be used directly in this world was also a problem, however, there were solutions. While divine power did not manifest directly, exerting power over the world, it could still exist in a static form, as Calypso keeps her own power within herself, or the hair of hers that she used as the core of her wand.

Rigel simply needed a way to keep the divine power static during the engraving, using Calypso's blood seemed like a good solution, she wouldn't mind donating some.

Rigel also didn't need to worry too much about learning how to engrave the Central Pearl's runes because as soon as he received the knowledge, those runes had already been 'understood' by him.

There were only a few runes that he had understood, just enough to make the Central Pearl work, but those few runes had already been perfectly integrated into Rigel, he could engrave them at any time.

So, after reading a bit, Rigel took advantage of it being Saturday and went to see Calypso directly, wanting to ask for some blood to use as ink.