Zorat made yet another hand movent, and a pocket realm manifested, hovering right in front of him.
This was a ’spatial repertoire’ of sorts, a more advanced version of the disguised divine Authority rune he was bestowed in the form of an item box divine skill. His version could now hold whatever he wants.
He snaps his fingers, and it collapses in on itself. Zorat began to manifest multiple portals as he moved through space several tis through the room. From the bed to the table. From the table to the door, and from the door to the mirror. But when he was over a minute in on this continual bombardnt of rune-level spells, he felt a pressure building in his head, and he soon stopped.
"Guess that’s it for now. How exciting!" Zorat mumbled out of breathe as he sat back down on the bed with a sigh. He had already achieved mastery over spatial manipulation ages ago. That was why, as soon as he ca upon the rune of space in this dinsion, he gained supre control over it.
The spatial techniques he had been displaying earlier were at the supre level, the runic-form/spell-form, and even if soone was able to gain mastery of Zorat’s level in that skill. They still wouldn’t be able to directly interfere with the spatial rune and would still need to depend on copious amounts of mana to cast such a supre technique, even a single ti, while Zorat had been going at it continuously for a full minute, ignoring the limitations of his nonexistent mana pool.
Zorat wasn’t using his mana to activate this skill. What Zorat was actually doing was activating a technique, or more simply, casting a spell by instructing the rune of space. With his status as an ’Authority’, Zorat can freely command the runes he unearths in his imdiate periter to manifest themselves, without him needing to pay a price for it, in the form of mana.
But this also cos with the cost of having to rely on ntal power to hold that command, which leads to ntal exhaustion for a body as weak as the one Zorat is currently occupying. With a more powerful form, and conversely, the mind, such unearthing and commands would be almost instantaneous. At least, it was for Zorat when he still had his old body.
This confirms it. These runes are fragnts of a divine Authority.
But why ?. Why would an existence so great grant access to such power for free?
Zorat wondered, because that wasn’t just runic spatial magic he had perford. It was way stronger. He was close to the level of Authority in his old body before he could conjure such potent force from a rune. And what’s most important is that the rune carried a part of Authority with it he could sense clearly. An Authority of a certain nature he had only felt from one being.
Are there really no other beings of authority in this dinsion that can read these runes?
How can there be a dinsional being, and no beings of Authority?
Sothing isn’t adding up.
It makes sense for Zorat to assu that there are no other beings of ’Authority’ present in this dinsion, maybe that’s why the dinsional existence in charge just leaves such runes lying around.
Because no being below Authority level can attempt what he had just done. Beings below this level of life cannot even see or perceive runes.
They are like programrs who deal with creating and operating frontend code and applications, while Authority beings are those with access to the backend programs.
For a frontend developer to transition into becoming a backend programr, like Zorat. It would take extre levels of talent and luck, and an incredibly long amount of ti designing their own software applications/spells, and perfecting them until they sohow transmute through extre luck or providence, into independent machines/systems themselves, boasting their own frontend and independent backend. That’s what being a being of ’Authority’ ans.
They can see, interpret, and easily affect runes around them that they have unearthed, making these runes that should belong solely to the dinsion revolve around them too, and answer to them like these runes now possess two parents.
These runes are the building blocks of reality, and each one already has a na and a function. An ’authority’ can tell these runes to carry out their innate functions without having to pay a price in mana that other beings do. And these beings can also use these runes feely in their base and most raw forms. That’s one of the most important perks of being a being of ’Authority’. However, they can’t change the nature of these runes.
On the other hand, a ’Dinsional-Being’ can freely tell all runes in its dinsion that already have their nas and functions that they should henceforth beco sothing else entirely, and these runes will obey like good kids, changing their nature on command.
This is one of the most important differences between a dinsional being and a being of authority. As well as these beings are eternally immortal in their own dinsion, and they can appear anywhere they feel like instantly inside their dinsion, controlling ti and space freely inside. And even if they are outside their dinsion, no matter how far they are, they can still control everything inside and even imdiately appear back inside if they wish.
For instance, Zorat is now certain that the person who created these divine skills and is issuing them out freely is a dinsional being. Runes are deeply hidden in the fabric of reality and require skill and ti to unearth. There are always differences between the runes of different dinsions because of the dinsional beings in charge as well.
The dinsional being had clearly placed these runes on the surface so that the heroes can get better contact, and thus their skill will beco very powerful when activated, even if they can’t see the runes.
The sa thing applies to carving a rune directly on the body. For the rune Zorat is about to carve, though. Since it’s a self-designed rune, he just has to unearth the equivalent and let his authority soul handle the rest
Still, Zorat can’t help but wonder. These are no ordinary runes. These runes contain fragnts of divine authority. What is the agenda of this powerful being ?. What ga have they been playing ?. And can he also play ?
It took Zorat so ti to grasp the changes that the dinsional being made to the runes of it’s dinsion, but he had already gotten the gist of it. To actively unearth runes naturally in this dinsion would take quite so ti, even for him.
But that wasn’t his current goals. Doing that will be redundant. Irrelevant even.
His imdiate goals are the divine skills that have divine Authority fragnts hidden in them; and that can’t be found anywhere else. It has to be given, or in Zorat’s case, copied.
He can’t just attack the heroes and check their belly buttons for the divine runes though. He won’t find anything of he tries, because only those who earned such runes can acquire them. And the only way was his current understanding was through awakening as heroes.
That was at least, until Zorat made an appearance in this dinsion that is.
"Oh my. Whoever you are.... You are so fucked. Yes you are.... hehehe."
Zorat’s authority is a peculiar one, and can be very hard to get results from when used actively, but there is one thing his authority was perfect at, and that was bending rules from a give-and-take standpoint.
That’s why Zorat would allow his greed for power to guide him freely, as he acquires all the divine skills the other heroes possess, though he needed to be creative about how he went about it. And as long as he can get his hands on more of these divine skills, he can acquire all their divine Authority fragnts.
And if he can successfully gather and rge all the divine authority fragns,, he could ascend to beco a dinsional being himself by rging that divine Authority with his own primordial authority.
"I will consu them all."
"Who cares what the dinsional being is plotting?" Zorat sitting on the bed said as the corners of his lips began to rise. They curled upward as his lips curved higher and higher, revealing his complete teeth and gums in a woeful smile that could cause a lesser being to wet themselves.
"I, Bahrakazeth Opheriathul Mal’Zorat... am itching for a challenge!"
At the utterance his his full na, outside above the kingdom, and beyond, the atmosphere darkened as buckets of red thunder streaked through the sky, sending a ominous shiver down the spine of everyone capable enough to sense the change.
Back the the small house, Zorat decides to undress himself indorder to begin studying and carving the runes of disruption into his body.
But as he loosened his belt and let his trousers down, ready to begin the process of rune inscription, his mouth suddenly fell wide open.
"So big ?"
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