He took the second Spirit Replenishment Pill and recovered his Spirit Energy completely. Same as before, overall Spirit Energy increased by a small amount.
He would have liked it more if this was an increase in quality instead, but this was also good enough.
Expelling the distracting thought, he began preparing the thirteenth talisman paper. Unlike before, this time he went a lot faster and ended up exhausting less Spirit Energy, at least 30% lesser.
Then, he began inscribing.
Because he had already infused the Thunder Energy into it earlier and had been using his Bloodline Sense to keep it from fully mixing with the ink, he didn't need to waste any more Thunder Energy.
10 minutes later, when he was done inscribing 20% of the rune…
Buzztt… Bang!
The talisman suddenly exploded.
