บท 417: All that effort... and for what?

The sun was slowly starting to set over the horizon. The last arrays of its warm rays made the entire world bask in a slightly reddish, thoughtful hue. 

It was a perfect time to sit down and look up, enjoying the last warmth of the day while immersing oneself in the beauty of the late evening. 

And yet, instead of doing any of that, I was currently busying myself collecting random pebbles from the ground while turning my brain into an engineering calculator. 

'If I use this rune, then the radius would become unstable…' 

'Adding that rune could make it easier to pull out…'

'Damn, I forgot about this dependency…'

There were many thoughts that went through my head while I was busy collecting the stones for my new, single-use formation. And even more of them appeared when I started to carve those stones out.