A Novel Concept - He Who Eludes Death Chapter 256: Runic Hacker

The sound of a page being turned reminded Priam that ti was slipping away. Ignoring the fleeting fantasies of power that ca with rapid progress, he focused on the orbs before him. They held the secret to the next ideal upgrade of [Dark Vision], and he wanted it for both himself and Oasis.

Activating his addon, Priam began to craft a three-dinsional model of the orb. Perhaps it was the evolution of his perception, or maybe the new clearance level from [Knight of the Aether], but he could now discern the external runes on the sphere. Without hesitation, Priam set about copying and annotating them.

Most of the runes were imbued with unknown Concepts, and Priam noted each flavor detected by the evolution of his ta-perception. He assud the Aelbes crafters had used their Concepts to enchant the very runes. For anyone else, the project might have ended there, but Priam possessed Concepts Archipelago. By purchasing Concept fragnts from the Sun Shop, he hoped to be able to recreate most of the enchantnts.

I've neglected this Talent lately, but it's every crafter's dream…

Once the outer layer was copied by his addon, Priam focused on the inner layer. The runes composing it were infused with a strange Concept, and Priam's attention seed to slip over them. He spent several minutes trying to circumvent the anti-espionage security before finding a simple solution: letting his addon copy them alone. The enchantnt easily distracted Priam, but was powerless against a machine.

The Aelbes' anti-espionage protection finally slowed him when his Domain reached the sphere's core. A spiritual bubble, akin to an artificial sphere of authority, blocked his Supremacy from penetrating it. Priam pressed on for a few seconds before scowling at his failure.

While half his attention sought a breach, a parallel thought process was at work. Domain was the second Supremacy he had discovered, and Priam knew his resurrections and [Homo Elysian Obsession] gave him an edge over most Tier 0s. Though not that close to Domain II, Priam could see what that stage entailed. Damn, that this artificial bubble is more powerful than Domain II…

Brute-forcing through the protection was hardly feasible. Accepting this, Priam opened his Potential and overclocked [Ideal Aether Perception]. If video gas had taught him anything, it was that there were two ways to access a vault: the hard way and the soft way.