Ves learned more about the Oceancaller with each passing minute.
His appreciation for the replica artifact continued to rise as he managed to glean more insights and secrets from this flute.
Just the chance to get a good glimpse of the 360 runes that covered the exterior of the flute alone was enough to widen his horizons!
Ves had made very little progress in developing a greater understanding of his Ascension Runes.
They were pure energy constructs that mysteriously aligned with a fundamental universal force.
That was pretty much the extent of his discoveries.
He had been unable to reproduce them outside of his third order living mechs. This severely limited their applications, which was why Ves had turned his attention away from them despite their huge potential.
Ves needed to pick his battles. He could make much better use of his time if he spent more time on researching phasewater technology or hyper technology.
The appearance of these 360 runes had reignited his interest into the study of runes. If he was able to learn how to artificially apply a bunch of them into any creation, then he could overcome the limitations of his current implementation of his Ascension Runes!
Ves tried to interpret the meaning and the purpose of the individual runes as best as possible.
This was rather difficult as he did not possess a dictionary or a guide. The Oceancaller did not take the initiative to provide any explanations, so Ves had to fall back on his intuition.
With the combined observations and insights of Ves, Blinky and Vulcan, the 360 runes slowly turned into a more recognizable body of text.
As best as he could guess, the runes amplified and regulated the interaction between spiritual energy and the Oceancaller.
They were akin to an ultra-dense form of programming language. They already carried a lot of meaning by themselves, but their complexity rose exponentially when they started to work together with more runes.
There was no possible way that Ves could replicate this amazing application of empowered programming!
The degree of sophistication was simply way too much for him. The runes were as inscrutable to him as the impressive god mechs of modern human civilization.
He would have to become an existence comparable to a Star Designer if he wanted to gain the qualifications to manipulate spiritual energy in such a profound manner.
"Is my mother able to work with these runes?"
Ves was not so sure about that. She was clearly a qi cultivator. That did not prevent her from dabbling into creation cultivation, but the application of runes was so advanced that it was unlikely for part-timers to understand their essence!
Creation cultivators had to develop their own strengths in order to justify their existence. Ves guessed that the study and application of runes was one of the high-level advantages that elevated their craft beyond the reach of other professionals.
He developed a strong desire to obtain an inheritance related to runes!
Ves needed to pay more attention to the Tree of Possibilities. If it offered any fruit that enabled him to get started in this deep and profound application of spiritual engineering, then he needed to take it regardless of the cost!
"If that doesn't work, I can always resort to reverse engineering..."
Ves had no doubt that he would utterly fail to decipher and reproduce all 360 runes of the Oceancaller.
However, it was not necessary for him to possess a full grasp of them. He would already be happy if he was successfully able to master a single rune. If he was able to understand its purpose, functions and application, he could empower every compatible mech with this advanced E energy construct.
That already made the Oceancaller worth the price of a radiant lottery ticket!
Even if Ves was unable to utilize the flute in any fashion, that still did not change the fact that it was a real high-level artifact.
It revealed so much about the production methods of a Divine Blacksmith that Ves and Vulcan could learn a huge amount by drawing from this example!
Ves stroked the surface of the Oceancaller with greater care and affection. It was not necessary for him to decipher every single nuance that went into its creation.
He could already derive a huge amount of benefits from it if he was able to reverse engineer just 5 percent of the secrets that made it so powerful!
In the meantime, he could also make use of it like a normal artifact cultivator. The Oceancaller could not only serve as a powerful weapon, but also came with a lot of shortcuts that could significantly speed up his comprehension of the water element.
"Let's explore your powers a bit more."
Ves carefully experimented with it for ten minutes. He was not in a hurry to blow any further notes with it. He instead wanted to learn how the flute interacted with different quantities and attributes of E energy.
He soon discovered that the flute did not solely interact with water energy.
"Interesting."
He discovered that there was a more advanced way to produce sounds with the Oceancaller.
The mortal way was to blow into the embouchure hole of the artifact flute.
The transcendent way to play the instrument was to inject air energy into the same hole!
PFFFFFFFFF!
When Blinky experimentally blew air energy into the hole, the blue runes not only glowed a lot brighter, but it also took control of a much greater quantity of water energy!
To Ves' astonishment, the water energy rapidly condensed and transformed into a large amount of water that instantly launched into the mountainside of the System Space!
Even though the impact force was not excessive, Ves could easily imagine that he could summon and launch a much greater body of water if he injected a lot more air energy into the flute! freёweɓnovel.com
It was not difficult to figure out why the flute was so responsive to air energy. It was a way to play the Oceancaller in a vacuum environment or when he was wearing a closed helmet.
Ves even had a hunch that he would only be able to unlock the true power of the Oceancaller if he skillfully and proficiently made use of air energy.
"Air energy is just a control mechanism. It is not the main driver of its powers."
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