Way of the Knights

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The Brush of Wisdom. 

It's a Divine ranked Spiritual Treasure that not even the Ancestor Zeus could use fully. With it's unknown origins, the Ancestor mostly used it to increase his mental fortitude and to write Writs and Decrees. 

The Ancient Elysium Sect had a history of at least millions of years, it was safe to say that this brush had been used by other candidates as well however even with the rich history of the sect, only Ancestor Zeus could use this divine item well.

And now, it found it's way to Raven's hand. 

...at least, that's what Raven himself would like to believe but for some reason, he just can't shake the feeling that all of this was pre-destined. Even this very moment that he's holding the brush. 

Raven played with the Brush of Wisdom for a little while. He inspected it's design and memorized how it looked just so that he could be more familiar with it. He liked the way how it feels on his hand. It was smooth and quite cool to the touch. 

With or without holding the brush, due to him forming a connection to it via blood link, the positive effects of the brush were already active. Nevertheless, Raven had a formidable soul and mental fortitude already anyway so this boost didn't really have that much of an appeal to him. Still, it's quite nice to have. 

After inspecting it for a bit, Raven tested it out by injecting his Cosmic Energy onto it. 

Once he did, the originally black tip, started changing colors. From black it turned into cosmic dark violet hue with occasional sparks of silver glows. Raven raised a brow was quite surprised with this development. He couldn't be anymore familiar with that energy since that was the same general color of his own Cosmic Energy. 

"Hmm..." Raven was in deep thought. 

This effect wasn't listed on the scroll. Now that he thought about it, none of the scrolls he saw earlier told any specific instructions on how to use these treasures at all. He's guessing that they're allowing the Chosen to discover it on their own. 

"Ancestor Zeus used it to write Writs and Decrees. That's understandable, after all he was born on the time where cultivation was still on it's early days."

"I wonder if anybody realized that this thing resembles those brushes that Inscriptionists uses to create runes and seals?"

No one might be able to answer this question of his, but Raven already made the connection at his first glance. 

Just like what he said, Inscriptionists of all ranks would easily form a connection between the two. There is a similar item on the belongings of full-fledged Inscriptionists which resembles this very brush.

They call it the Rune Carving Brush because it helps them write and create runes with more ease. Some Rune Carving Brushes could even give them the effect of a steady hand, allowing them improve their skills in Runesmithing. 

Raven was eager to try, so without further ado, he raised the brush and drew a simple and basic rune. What he draw was a 'Soul' rune, which improves all spiritual aspects of an array of formations. It's one of the most basic runes out there and any Inscriptionists could easily identify this one. 

*Weng!*

A soft fluctuation was released once Raven was done creating the rune. The rune was suspended in the air and was releasing some soft humming sounds. Thanks to the color of his energy, the Rune looked quite beautiful. 

"Hmmm...." Raven frowned. 

He could sense something off with this rune. 

Just like what was mentioned earlier, Raven created a very basic rune. He didn't made any kind of adjustments to it or anything, even a beginner was capable of drawing this rune without breaking a sweat. The only one difference should be the color of the rune due to him possessing Cosmic Energy, however Raven sensed something greater than that.

"What is it though?" Raven couldn't wrap his head around it. He could tell that there's something strange with this rune but he can't figure it out for the life of him...

Raven from as he stared at the floating rune in front of him. He thought of many things but dismissed it since it didn't make any sense and it didn't fit. It took him a few minutes before his eyes abruptly widened in disbelief...

"It couldn't be! No! That shouldn't be..." There was a thick disbelief on his voice as he repeatedly tried to deny the idea. 

"Hold on, let me test this..." Raven pursed his lips and dismissed the rune he drew earlier. 

He took a deep breath and sharpened his focus. When he opened his eyes, a cold and gloomy gleam was present on his pupils. 

Raven then raised the brush and drew the same exact 'Soul' rune from before. It barely took him a second to do so. Once he did, the mood disappeared from his face...but not on the rune itself.

"Shit!" Raven gasped in disbelief. "I'm not seeing things! This brush can be used to channel and medium to manifest my intentions to anything I draw!! Unbelievable!"

This was an unprecedented discovery. And Raven couldn't be any more glad that he managed to realize this.

An item that could act as a medium to channel someone's intentions to drawing with barely an effort. This Brush of Wisdom might as well be the last of it's kind. 

One has to know that it takes a HUGE amount of effort to channel one's intention to something. 

It isn't as simple as anger being channeled to; say a weapon. Just because a swordsman was mad, it doesn't mean that he/she could channel their anger to the sword itself. Swords are mostly inanimate objects, the only times that they'll have some kind of spirituality in them is when their creator bestows them one, even then the process itself was quite dangerous and takes a lot of time and energy to do so. 

'Intent' this is an ephemeral substance or energy form that not everyone could possess. There are many kinds of Intents out there, Raven himself has two of them being Fist Intent and his pseudo-Slaughter Intent

Raven worked extremely hard to acquire these things, at luck was also a great factor to it. Just from the way he acquired the pseudo-Slaughter Intent alone, one could realize just how challenging it is to have one. 

He had to slaughter millions and millions in order to get the pseudo-Slaughter Intent, not even the genuine one. 

Just from these factors alone, enlightening one's self upon Intents were already challenging and exploring it's applications aren't even included in that. 

However, the sheer existence of the Brush of Wisdom tramples upon that notion. 

Raven didn't even channeled the intent but a mere 'mood' when he drew that rune. The mood of killing someone. Under normal circumstances, this shouldn't have any effect on the rune but thanks to the magic of the brush, it did. 

How can he not be shocked? 

This brush wasn't simply monstrous, it was heaven-defying! 

Thanks to his discovery, Raven felt eager to try it more. In fact, he totally got carried away. 

He messed around with a few basic runes, drawing every single one with varying volumes of his pseudo-Slaughter Intent. It didn't take long before an array composed of basic runes were formed in front of him, and it was glorious. 

It radiated a heavy scent and feel of Slaughter. Just from a glance, one would even have visions of bodies forming mountains and blood turning into rivers. Even experts would find it hard to believe that this is the basic out of the basic arrays there is due to the sheer aura of slaughter it has. 

Raven was still unsatisfied, therefore he created more. He tried channeling his cleansing flames on the brush and it worked smoothly. 

Instead of his Cosmic Energy, the runes are now drawn using his Cleansing Flames instead. White runes sparkled and fluctuated with purity formed the same array as the last one, however there's a world of difference between the two. 

Raven's heart was dancing in joy. Now, all the feeling of uncertainty and unwillingness was gone. It turns out that he made the right choice. 

The only reason why Raven was somewhat hesitant at first is because, choosing this brush gave him the feeling that his future path will be inevitably be entangled by runes and seals. Which means that he'll be treading the Sealing Path. 

It wasn't really that much of a problem however, what made him a bit hesitant is the fact that study of Seals takes a long time and effort to so. Had he known that he'll ended up treading this path, he would've built a stronger foundations for it but it only solidified when he grabbed the brush. 

There's no turning back from here on out though. It was already decided the moment he touched this thing, which means that now, he had to catch up and do some revisions about his general plan. 

"Well, since I'm here....I might as well do my best."