Forged Destiny [Book 7: Ch. 13]

Raven brought a piece of parchment from her pocket and unfolded it. "I would like you to inscribe this onto the blade."

The drawing was something done in charcoal, but with precise detail. It resembled an eye stood on its edge, pointing up vertically. Surrounding it was what seemed to be the spokes of a wheel. Four points of a compass were at the cardinal points, while five diamonds dripped past the southern edge, fanning out like some kind of flower.

I'd seen it before, but for some reason, this time, it gave me a headache just looking at it. Something about the layout, the spokes digging into the eye, made me feel uncomfortable, almost nauseous. It was the pattern that had been on my amulet, and the door in Vacuo that contained the temple Watts sacrificed people within.

Never once had I thought it might be a Rune.

"What does it do…?"

"That's unimportant. You will place it onto the blade." Her words brooked no argument and I nodded, indicating that she should place it down on the table beside me as my hands were too hot to touch the parchment.

Keeping my eyes locked onto the bizarre Rune, I activated my Engraving Skill and began to etch it into the metal, cutting the curves and the spokes with my mind, infusing the Rune with power. It glowed an eldritch green on a sword slowly turning a vivid hue of blue. The sword was finished with a crash – a literal crash inside my skull – as the Exp all came in one devastating blow.

—Forged Destiny [Book 7: Ch. 13]