Bab 265: Chapter 265 - An obstacle

"You're missing something?" Elora halted her calculations to do the mental equivalent of staring at him quizzically. "What's wrong?"

He scratched his chin and furrowed his brows. "I think my insights into the ice affinity are too shallow…" he pondered. "I can still recognize the symbols that wouldn't work, but I think I may have simply failed to draw one that would have, due to the missing insights into ice."

While their current method was far less reliant on deep knowledge of an affinity than the alternatives, he still needed to have reached a certain threshold in order to actually draw the sigil.

So far, he had assumed any symbols he had failed to draw were because they simply weren't stable enough to become the foundation of thundersnow.

But now, after three weeks of not even coming close to finishing a rune or glyph, he decided it had to be something else. And what else could it be, besides his relatively low understanding of ice?