Level Up Legacy

The more sophisticated runes collapsed, but Arthur managed to improve the basic ones. After tweaking them here and there, he managed to lower the cost a bit. [Total Mana Cost: 1320.] "…Still more than I can afford, but why is it so expensive?" Arthur wondered to himself, unaware that what he was trying to achieve had already been attempted by Jizo himself. The language of creation was perfect as it was, but Arthur was attempting to improve it. A crazy notion appeared in his mind. If spiritual energy could reduce the need for mana, then could there be a point where every rune of creation no longer needed mana? Could a world exist where mana was no longer necessary, but the world remained safe and complete? "A world without mana," muttered Arthur to himself with excitement. "This is what Rhys talked about—a perfect world that didn\'t require mana. And if a world became self-sufficient without mana, then the gods could no longer benefit from sending nameless beings to devour worlds." Arthur couldn\'t tell whether his idea was foolish or insane, but it was undoubtedly impossible. To create that world, he would need to test and improve every rune in existence to reach perfection: a self-sustaining state—independent runes! "That might take millions of years, haha," laughed Arthur to himself as he decided to put the idea on the back burner. He needed to focus on perfecting this Sandbox to improve his [Detect] rune. After that, he could use the rune to visualize the entire world. As long as he could handle the influx of information using the spiritual artifact before him, he could find anything he was looking for, including Kar and Deluge. "You guys are the real issue here," muttered Arthur with a frown as he looked at the runes in his Sandbox. Each of them would require tons of mana to work at the same time. "Hold on a second… if this Sandbox is a car that requires mana, then what if I add a gas tank? Or in other words, a mana tank?" Arthur felt like he had grown smarter after being freed from his burdens. For the first time in a while, he started having fun using his abilities instead of being punished for them. He began crafting a mana tank to attach to his Sandbox, and his ideas began to turn into reality.