"What is that?!"
"Are those runes?"
"How are runes on his body?"
"What the fuck?!"
Even Zion was stunned. He had used this power before during training, but never at its full intensity. Now, it surged through him like an unstoppable force, making him feel invincible—like the most powerful being in existence. Yet, he knew better. A recent humbling had taught him that power alone was never absolute.
Christen, however, was in utter disbelief. "That's impossible! Runes can't be engraved on a living being!" Being a mage, she too knew how runes worked, and she knew that engraving them on a living being was akin to a death sentence.
Why? It's simply really. While magic is manipulating nature and bending it to one's will, using runes is the act of changing the nature or property of something at the most basic level. To put it in scientific terms, it's basically like rearranging the atoms of something. This is why magic circles are made up of runes to make spells more powerful.
