Chapter 481 - 480: An Epoch-Making Work

Chapter 481: Chapter 480: An Epoch-Making Work

[Successfully Crafted Unknown Rune (Requires Naming)]

[Effect: Upon use, releases a miniature tornado that lasts for eight seconds. This tornado has a diameter of approximately two meters and a central wind speed of up to thirty meters per second. It can launch enemies within its range into the air and inflict continuous wind pressure damage. It inflicts an additional 50% knockback effect against flying units. While the tornado is active, the user can direct its movement.]

[Evaluation: A great wind can rise from the smallest ripple and fade into the common weeds. But for these eight seconds, you are the sole master of the wind.]

Seraphina Sinclair had originally wanted to create a rune that would increase her speed.

But now, this was...

An offensive rune that created a tornado?

Seraphina Sinclair stared at the rune paper before her, her expression somewhat conflicted.

She’d wanted a pair of fast-running shoes, but she’d ended up making a weapon to cut people down. You couldn’t say she’d gone completely off track, but it was certainly a world away from her initial plan.

"Where did I go wrong?"

She picked up the finished rune and examined it over and over.

The silver-gray rune stood out as if carved upon the ebony-colored base. Those swirling, interwoven patterns were clearly descended from the Gale Rune on the Wind-stepping Boots.

’Why can it grant speed on the boots, but as a rune, it can only create a small tornado?’

’Wait.’

Something finally clicked in Seraphina Sinclair’s mind.

’I successfully used a rune to create a new rune. What is there to be disappointed about?’

’This is a brand new rune! It doesn’t belong to any established system! It’s a rune I figured out all by myself!’

’If I had just done what I did before—not changing the base ink and only adding certain materials—it would have been just following a script, even if I succeeded. But this... taking a rubbing of the rune from the Wind-stepping Boots, using Ebony Rune Parchment as a medium, drawing it with the Silver Stream Rune Pen, using processed powder for ink...’

’What is this?’

’This is creation!’

’It’s a crafting method that I discovered on my own, one that belongs only to me.’

’Once this path is proven, it means I can turn any rune I acquire into one of my own.’

’From now on, my runes will no longer be limited to the previous three types!’

’Granted, even I, the creator, can’t control the exact effects of the runes created from these new designs.’

But the unknown also meant possibility.

Seraphina Sinclair’s gaze returned to the rune’s effects, and she began to think of a name for it.

In comparison, this rune was a truly epoch-making creation.

’A name... I should think carefully about it.’

Seraphina Sinclair’s eyes roamed back and forth over the few lines of the system description.

A miniature tornado, central wind speeds of thirty meters per second, a knock-up, continuous wind pressure damage, and she could even direct its movement.

’If I use this rune and add some fire to it at the same time...’

’Wind fuels fire. A two-meter-diameter fire tornado... its central temperature might not reach a thousand degrees, but it would definitely be far beyond that of a normal flame!’

’Anything caught inside would not only be torn apart by the wind but also scorched by the flames.’

The mere thought of that scene was exhilarating.

But that was a matter for later.

Right now, this rune needed a name.

Seraphina Sinclair reined in her thoughts and re-examined the rune paper in her hand.

The swirling, interwoven patterns held a taut tension, like a rope twisted to its limit, ready to spin and shred everything around it at any moment.

’This isn’t a gentle wind, but a strangling one.’

She murmured the two words, "Wind Twister."

Wind Twisting Twister Charm.

’Concise, direct, and you know what it does just from the name.’

[Naming Successful: Wind Twisting Twister Charm (C-)]

’C- Level again?’

Unlike the pleasant surprise she felt when she saw the Silver Ash Rune, Seraphina Sinclair was beginning to suspect that all runes made with this method would turn out to be C- Level.

Seraphina Sinclair’s head, which had been buzzing with excitement ever since she’d obtained the Ebony Rune Parchment, slowly began to cool. She had already taken a huge step forward in the field of rune making.

’One step at a time.’

’I’ve accomplished enough for today. No need to push myself too hard.’

Seraphina Sinclair drew a few more C- runes, then quietly put all her tools away.

She took out the last two items from the Black Mist Coliseum—the ashes of The Ashenbone Lord and the Skill Book, *Dark Moon Blade Scripture*!

The former was in a small, translucent gray pouch, its opening tied shut with a black silk thread.

Looking through the pouch, the ashes within were an unnatural silver-gray color. Occasionally, extremely faint points of light would flicker within it, like embers not yet extinguished in a pile of ash.

Seraphina Sinclair didn’t rush to open it.

She picked up the Skill Book first.

The four words *Dark Moon Blade Scripture* were written in a script she had never seen before. The strokes were as sharp as a knife, with each one ending in a fierce, abrupt stop, as if the writer’s only thought at the moment of writing was how to split something apart.

The Skill Book’s cover was deep black, with a rough texture to the touch, like the leather of some animal. There were several deep creases on the spine, clear evidence that it had been read many times.

Seraphina Sinclair opened the first page.

[Skill Book - *Dark Moon Blade Scripture* (S-Class)]

[Description: A forbidden Skill Book forged with the abyssal Power of Dark Moon. The cover is made from Dark Moon Beast Skin, and a faint silver-gray light flows between the pages. It records the long-lost essence of the Darkmoon Clan’s blade techniques, from the gathering and circulation of the Power of Dark Moon to the control of the blade’s form. For those who master this skill, the blade is their body, and the moon is their heart. To wield the blade, one must first forge the body!]

[Learning Requirements: Strength >= 59, Constitution >= 59, Speed >= 59!]

’Darkmoon Beast? Darkmoon Clan?’

Before Seraphina Sinclair could even process those two names, she saw the learning requirements.

"Greater than 59?!"

She shouted it right out loud, startling Luna Jacobs so much that she looked up at her.

Seraphina Sinclair paid Luna Jacobs no mind. She frowned, staring intently at the three numbers.

59...

’All Attributes over 50, with no single Attribute at 60 or above—that was the standard for A-level.’

’This Skill Book is S-Class, so are the requirements to surpass the peak of A-level Attributes?’

Seraphina Sinclair didn’t dwell on it, because there was no point.

She couldn’t learn this Skill Book right now. That much was set in stone.

The Dragon Meat and the other food Gray had sent over had brought her Attributes to 44, 43, 43, and 43.

After unlocking a new title slot, her All Attributes increased by another five points, making them 49, 48, 48, and 48 now.

She was only a step away from A-level, but still a long way from the peak of A-level.

Seraphina Sinclair sighed and put the S-Class Skill Book away for now.

The final item was the ashes of The Ashenbone Lord.

[Ashes of The Ashenbone Lord (B-level)]

[Description: The remains of The Ashenbone Lord, left behind after his fall. They have been processed by a Refiner to preserve some of the original owner’s traits and given as a prize to the player who successfully handled the crisis in The Coliseum! The ashes contain a dense Dark Matter Spiritual Power and can be used for Advanced rune making, Advanced Potion crafting, Advanced Equipment crafting, Advanced Barrier Seals, Advanced Blueprint Engraving, and more!]