The runes in the 9th chamber walls were in another category from anything he had encountered, yet again…
Not close to the runes he recognized from his experiments, nor the ones he had studied for years at other ruins, not even the ones he had designed himself for the earrings, the mana array or the bows. These were too layered and too dense and written in a way that the surface layer alone was doing things he couldn't parse, which meant what was underneath it was likely worse.
He looked at them for the full ten minutes.
It gave him a real headache... But not the headache of mental exhaustion. The headache of a system trying to process an input way above its current capacity.
"Do you understand them?" Liora asked, from where she was recovering.
"No," Ren said, a bit dejected.
She left it at that, which was the correct response for someone who understood what happened when you pushed an obsessive person to keep staring at something that was actively hurting them.
