The Legend Of The Rune Master

2 more years have elapsed and dragx is now 14 years old.Dragx sat in his expensive apartment study room. This room is the room he uses to create rune circuits.

He has had many trials and failures since discovering rune magic and linking it to circuits.

He also did have a rune formations which he sold and made a huge profit of off. Specifically the lighting circuit he created. This was the main reason he was as wealthy as he was now.

The circuit was based off of the basic circuits on earth. The power source , the bulb and switch.

Dragx created a magical energy gathering rune, this rune was used to gather and transfer the light continuously to the bulb, the bulb would be the sun glowstone gem that takes sunlight and emits it, all a person would need to do was to flip the switch and close the circuit so that the stored light is transferred to the gem.

Dragx sold this 'Invention' to the magic counsel and it sold like hot bread. People from all different races and classes had this circuit set up in their homes. The very same room dragx is in has such a magical circuit.

But what dragx hopes is to create a weapon completely from runes. With this weapon he would enter the competition to qualify for one of the magic academies.

He is almost complete as well,he is just missing a few things.

The main idea about the circuit is to form 24 runes to perform different things and have different purposes these runes would form the circuit. Any normal failed mage would not be able to form so many runes at once.

Dragx discovered that the soul essence of  magical beast were not so useless after all.

After he became wealthy the first thing he did was to buy a soul core from one of the merchants.

The fire winged hawk is a very popular bird so this core was fairly cheap. After buying the soul core of the bird dragx set up a contained room and made special runes to pump his affinity less magic into the room. Day after day dragx would place his magic into the runes and the runes would emit his energy all around the room. After two days dragx opened the room, what he saw shocked him greatly.

Inside the room was the fire winged hawk! The hawk was completely made of fire! And it was twice it's normal size!

As soon as the hawk saw dragx it sent a blast of fire at him. Dragx quickly jumped out of the room, the hawk was close behind.

Dragx ran as he thought frustratedly. 'Damn it! Why do all my experiments try to kill me!'

Dragx could hear the flapping of wings and he could feel the heat behind himself. Dragx ducked lucky before the hawk reached him.

Suddenly the hawk fell out of the sky and landed hard on the ground. It then started to screech loudly as the fire covering it started to fade and its body started to vanish rapidly. The hawk made one final weak screech as it's fiery body vanished all together, leaving behind it's soul core once more.

Dragx was shocked at this new revelation, he quickly formed an hypothesis on what happened inside of the room.

When the hawk's soul core was placed in a environment which was heavily concentrated with affinity less energy the hawk took the energy into it's soul essence and added it's own element to it. The hawk then reformed it's body using it's element, by doing this the hawk became fire itself which would means that it could only be stopped by removing it's soul core.

But in order to stay in  this state the hawk needed constant energy. So that is why it vanished when it left the room.

Dragx did many other tests with less dangerous beast and they where all successful.

Dragx came to discover how magical  beasts use magic.

Magical beasts are born with their soul essence and their magical focuses. The  beast would take in attribute less energy from the environment using their soul essences, the attribute-less energy would then be mixed with the beasts elemental energy, this energy is then stored in their magical focuses.

Dragx came up with an idea to form a circuit which would power the magical being and maintain their shape, by doing this they would stay intact for as long as he liked.

Dragx then started his hunt for magical beast souls so that he could create a circuit. This circuit was what he was going to use to fight in the test to enter one of  the magical academies.

Dragx dived into study so that he could create the perfect rune. As he was studying he stumbled upon the legend of the imperial Knight. Dragx discovered that the legend was not just a legend but and actual part of history.

According to the books Zayde a skilled imperial Knight that was tasked with returning a kidnapped princess, Zayde was said to have reek havoc upon the princess's kidnappers and anyone sent to kill him .Zayde was said to even killed a dragon to get to the princess.

After Zayde returned the princess instead of being rewarded for his deeds, his  soul was ripped from his body and sealed into a gem. They say the gem is still present today.

After reading these books dragx began his search for this gem which was the prison of Zayde.

After months of searching for Zayde, dragx finally found it in an antique shop.

Dragx was now doc.u.menting his work and discoveries in his journal, which he slyly written in English so that no one but him would ever be able to make sense of anything in it.

"There I am finished!"dragx thought to himself.

Dragx placed the books away and removed the rune ink,knife  and a papers that have the required runes to create the circuit.

Dragx sat with his legs crossed and the ink, knife,gem and papers lay before him.

Dragx inhaled and exhaled slowly," it is time to begin!"

Dragx took the knife and cut his palm with it. He held his now bleeding hand over the ink. He allowed his blood to mix with the ink, by doing this he is forever tied to the ink and the rune he is about to create.

Dragx looked at the paper  which had the required runes he tried to burn them in his memory.

He placed down the paper and closed his eyes and started to think about the runes,he held his arms out forced his magic out.

2 dozen runes formed from the ink and floated in the air. Dragx opened his eyes and checked each one. Satisfied that they where correct he closed his eyes again and started to concentrate on arranging them.

The 2 dozen runes arranged themselves into 2 concentric circles. The larger outer circle had a dozen runes and the inner circle had 10 runes. 2 power storage type runes where at the center of the array formation.

Dragx once again opened his eyes to inspect the now almost completed magical circuit, satisfied he closed his eyes again and began the hardest part. Dragx made lines extend from the formation and connect themselves to the gem. He used the lines to Pierce the gem and he injected his magic into it. The gem then started to crack. The cracks got bigger and bigger until it broke with an audible crack,immediately a separate and new energy flowed within the room and started to fill it.

The energy even started to push against dragx. Steeling his resolve dragx caused more  lines to extend from the formation and entangle the new powerful energy.

Dragx finally after ten minutes managed to fully entwine the circuit and the new energy. Dragx felt his concentration and mental strength waning he knew he had to finish this now.

Dragx stabilized the energy and the circuit, satisfied he extended his arms. He guided the runes to his arms and he began to imprint to circuit on himself.

The rune formation broke apart and arranged themselves into 2 dozen runes, the runes looked like Chinese and Japanese characters mixed together , the runes then came together and  formed a dozen runes those runes then split apart from each other and six new runes which then formed their own shapes. 2 shapes floated in the air now.

One of the shapes looked like a sword  and the other shape looked like wings connected to a circle.

Dragx then looked at the final product of the rune formation.

He pulled them to himself. They flew to his arms and began to imprint themselves. The runes stuck to both his palms, each symbol on each plam.

Dragx felt the runes burn into his palms. It felt as though his hands where being burnt with a branding iron.

Seeing that his work was done dragx dropped his arms and fell to lay on his back. Dragx was mentally and physically drained dragx fell into blissful sleep before he knew it.

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When dragx awakened he got up an inspected the runes on his palms. After what felt like forever dragx stopped looking at his runes and went to the bathroom to relax in the  bathtub.

Dragx excitedly left  the bathroom feeling refreshed and excited.

"I guess it's time to activate my circuit!" Dragx thought excitedly.

Dragx put his palms together as he mixed and balanced the negative and positive  energy within himself. Effectively 'closing the circuit'.

The runes on his arms started to glow white light as the same symbols started to form in the air. The symbols connected to each other.

The sword slid over the circle with the wings, both symbols started to break apart to form six runes these runes then broke apart to form 12 runes which broke apart to form 2 dozens runes.

They then arranged themselves into the inner and outer circles.

The power storage type runes flashed continuously, supplying and replenishing the magical energy in the circuit formation. As this happened dragx felt energy being pulled from himself.

Lines of magical energy began to intertwine with each other as if being drawn by an invisible hand and finally the faint outline of a knight's armor was viable before dragx. The rune formation appeared around the torso of the Knight.

Finally the Knight fully appeared!

Dragx looked at his rune circuit with awe. The Knight looked majestic and celestial the armor glowed brilliantly.

"Umm, Greetings or hello or something.

The Knight tried to move  it's arms to it's face. It's arms fell off.

Dragx eyes widened, "why is this happening, my rune was successful so why- ".

Dragx didn't get to finish his sentence due to the arms of the Knight rising from the floor and flew towards him and fitted themselves around his arms. Dragx took a step back shocked as the armor forced his hands to clench and open.

Dragx stared at his hands in amassment, fear and shock. The remaining pieces of armor  then broke apart then floated into the air. The armor pieces then flew towards him ,fitted and connected themselves around his body they fitted perfectly as if they were made for him.

The last piece of armor, the helmet then came over his head.

If dragx was an old man then he would have probably had a heart attack and died when he heard a  voice that sounded as if it was formed by a mechanical voice box inside his head,

"who are you! And where am I!" It shouted.