Card Apprentice Daily Log

Date- 28 Mar 2321

Time- 22: 57

Location- Sky Blossom City, Dungeon Highway, Barren Lands, Blood Rock Cave Gate Dungeon

With my advanced mastery of blood rule, I slowly guided the blood rule power from the blood rule steam in the spiritual plane to the bridge connecting me to the world. Through the bridge, I then poured it into my calamity soul gem. When the blood rule power had filled the soul gem to the brim, I stopped conjuring the rule power, feeling that this should be enough for me to forge a rune. Thanks to my advanced mastery and the blood cave, gathering the required rule power didn't take much of my time.

The next step was to refine this blood rule power I had gathered in my soul gem using my advanced mastery of blood rule. Rule power is a pure form of energy. They are as pure as they come. By refining the rule power, I meant to increase the concentration of energy in the rule power. There is a difference in concentration of energy in rule power conjured by a card apprentice using basic mastery and advanced mastery. This difference in concentration of energy in the rule power is what lets a card apprentice with advanced mastery gain the upper hand in a fight against a card apprentice with basic mastery when using the same rune.

With the increased concentration of energy in rule power, I can forge a sturdier rune. The sturdier the rune, the higher performance it will give. Therefore this step of refining the rule power was an important step and cannot be skipped or half-assed. So I did not rest after conjuring the rule power but continued to refine the rule power, making use of my advanced blood rule mastery. It was a tedious process, but still, I had to go through it. Fortunately, I had three obedient buds who shared my workload, making my work easier for me.

Thanks to the three helping hands, I finished the refining of blood rule power much earlier than expected. The rule power in my soul gem was now much denser than before, and it only filled half of the volume it previously occupied. Feeling that this was not enough, I had to repeat the whole process of conjuring rule power and refining it twice. Until I finally had enough refined rule power to forge the rune.

Then followed the shaping of the refined rule power into a rune by using the mastery of the meaning. This process was a lot like smithery. I had the best quality material. Now I had to give it a form, and the form the blood rule would take was the meaning I comprehended. This is where my advanced mastery of the meaning 'fate plunder' sets into motion.

Using my advanced mastery of the fate plunder, I was going to give the refined rule power a form this form was the rune I was going to forge. This part was the easiest as I just had to use my advanced mastery of the blood rule's meaning, which would guide me about and direct me on how to shape the blood rule power into the rune I should build for myself.

The shaping of the rule power was a no-brainer. I followed my guide, advanced mastery of the fate plunder, and shaped the rune I was going to forge. This step did not take long, and I finally shaped the refined rule power in the meaning 'fate plunder'.

My work was only half done here. The rune I just shaped using refined rule power is just an empty husk of what an actual rune should look like. This was just the body, the soul that actually made it into a true rune was missing. And this soul of the rune I speak of is my understanding of the blood rule's meaning.

Mastery and my personal understanding are two different things. Mastery of the meaning is what turned the refined rule power into a vessel for my understanding of the meaning. Together they form a rune.

My understanding of the blood rule's meaning gives the body formed by refined rule power and my mastery of the meaning sentience. The rule power is just pure energy. Under the influence of the meaning, it gains a frame, a physique, if you will. This physique is void of alertness, appreciation, and attention. All in all, it is no different from an inanimate.

My understanding of the blood rule's meaning 'fate plunder' is what will give it the sentience which it is lacking the most right now. Sentience, in a sense it will actually ascend to a true rune with a purpose. This purpose is its ability. The strength of this ability of the rune formed would depend upon my understanding of the blood rule's meaning 'fate plunder.'

This is why Anna and Luna asked me not to forge a rune hastily following the announcement of my grimoire. If I had forged the rune after getting the notification from the grimoire, then I would have been able to gather enough refined rule power successfully, even would have succeeded in giving the rule power the shape of rune using my mastery in the meaning. Still, when I would reach the final step, I would not be able to continue with forging because, at that time, my understanding of the rune was very shallow. With that superficial understanding of the meaning, even if I had formed the best frame for the rune, I would not have been able to give it the perfect essence to forge the true rune.

Thankfully I had heeded Anna and Luna's advice, and my current understanding of fate plunder meaning was enough to form a perfect essence for the rune frame. Once I gave sentience to the rune frame, my soul gem was filled with a brilliant red light, and I entered sudden enlightenment as my grimoire sounded with a notification prompt.

[Basic rune 'Fate Plunder' has been successfully forged. ]

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