Chapter 248: Progress in plans

[Ace POV],

After several hours of attempting to create two different runes from the fire system, explode and ignite, I was only able to successfully engrave both after numerous trials. Engraving two at a time was difficult, as I had expected. I failed more times than I succeeded, but I did manage to improve my ability to engrave runes.

I turned to look at the two metallic balls on the table in front of me, each with a gem embedded in the center and a rune engraved on the gem. I used magic gems that I had mined from the slime dungeon, making the experiment even more expensive due to the failures I had in engraving the runes on the gems, causing them to be destroyed. The ignite rune was the first one I succeeded in creating before the explode rune a few hours later.