I returned to the guest room and came back down with my bag of trea-I mean, bag of weapons. Passing them one by one to Dak, who laid them out on the table.
“Rune of strength, rune of precision, rune of dancing, rune of laws, rune of sunshine, and rune of starlight. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such an unusual collection of magical runes before in all my life. We just saw what the rune of strength does, but what about the rest of them?” All eyes focused on me with laser intensity. Mentally probing me for answers.
“To be honest, I don’t know.” There was an immediate sigh of disappointment from around the table. “Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with a forge song stuck in my head, I get the urge to alter it, and these are some of the results. And since I can’t use the testing room without te
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