Legendary Shelter Survival Guide

Chapter 133 Runesmithing

"Huff... Huff... Huff..." Lucas had ragged breathing while he lay on the ground with his chest lifting again and again.

He was not wearing a shirt and his chiseled body was on display.

With the leveling up and training every day, Lucas now had a set of eight abs, his chest with pure muscles with no fat, and with movement, the chest also tightened as if his breathing was too ragged.

Even his arms had muscles that looked like they were hard enough to break steel just by pushing at it. Even his calves were flaunting.

If left the fact that Lucas's face was burnt to the point that his skin was knotted and some bone showed with one of his eyes just blank white. He could have become a model back on Earth.

Right now, Lucas had a wooden weapon in his hand while he lay down in front of one of the group's members who was sweating lesser than Lucas.

"Wow, that healing really has messed with your stamina huh," Jerry said and gave Lucas a hand.

As Lucas had the spearmanship skill, he was obliged to practice it too as it was supposed to reach level 5 and till now, Lucas was only able to surpass one level.

As Lucas took Jerry's hand and pulled himself up, he couldn't help but chuckle despite his exhaustion. "Yeah, it really did a number on me. But I'll get back to my prime soon enough, you'll see."

Jerry grinned and patted Lucas on the back. "I have no doubt about that. You're the toughest guy I know here."

Lucas appreciated the encouragement from his older friend. He knew that he had to push himself harder if he wanted to reach the next level in his spearmanship skill.

The battles they faced in this world were becoming more challenging, and he needed to be at his best to protect his friends and himself.

Now that some type of god was trying to mess with them in order to get fun, Lucas was sure that he would have to get strong quicker as some intuition told him that things like this would keep happening.

Lucas fought against Jerry who was only in the spar to train his shielding skill. He only defended while Lucas only attacked.

Lucas was sure that his spear skill would level up again soon enough as with each hour of relentless nonstop training, his skill proficiency was increasing by 10 and he only needed 60 more in order to upgrade the skill again.

When Lucas was done after two hours, he had a session of healing with Ella who took care of his eye and face. His body was still hurt from the inside but fixing the eye came first.

"It's itching a lot," Lucas remarked while his eyes twitched with frustration. Whenever the healing took place, Lucas had an itch on his cheek and inside of the eye socket, even if the eye had no pain receptors or something, for now, Lucas couldn't get rid of the itch even when he rubbed it vigorously.

"Just give it time, your nerves, the pupil, the skin, flesh, muscles, everything is recovering. The itch is just a small price to pay in order to be healed." Ella said while her hand was stable at Lucas's left cheek as energy kept coming out of her palm and entered Lucas like it was the most natural thing to do.

Lucas took the healing for an hour and soon, the recovery was better, his eye still did not have a vision but according to the others, there was some betterment in his condition.

With a focused expression, Sean started using the rune carving knife for carving some very complicated-looking symbols onto the surface of the small stone.

"These are called runes," Sean explained as he worked, "Each symbol holds a specific meaning and power. When properly inscribed, these runes can help to enhance weapons, armor, and even some equipment we use every day. I only know some runes that are in my mind since I got the skill. I know their abstract meaning but nothing more."

Lucas watched in awe as Sean's skilled hands moved with precision, creating beautiful patterns one by one on the stone. The runes looked like some kind of ancient language that used the help of big symbols as alphabets to write in the old times.

"When these runes are activated, they take the mana from my body or the one who is using it, providing various effects depending on the inscriptions," Sean continued. "It takes practice and understanding of the materials to make effective runes that I don't know about."

"Soo... are these runes or inscriptions random or do you know what you are doing?"

"Heh, I know some of the runes and their little meaning but the effects are unknown to me. For now, I only know five rune symbols and they can have random sequences or pairings as I like. You can say that this is my first time carving the runes as all this time took me to just understand them."

Lucas couldn't believe that all this was coming outside of Sean's mouth. He always felt like Sean didn't like him but his behavior now seemed too weird.

"Alright, let's see..."

As Sean finished carving two symbols on the stone, he held the stone in both hands and closed his eyes.

As Sean closed his eyes, Lucas watched with anticipation, curious to see what would happen next.

The runes on the small stone in Sean's hands began to emit a faint, pulsating glow. The carved runes seemed to come alive as if responding to some hidden power within them.

"I have never reached this far, let's see..." Sean said in a hushed tone, focusing his concentration on the stone.

Suddenly, a surge of mana emanated from the stone. The small area surrounding the stone felt charged with an otherworldly glow.

"It worked!" Sean exclaimed with a mixture of surprise and delight. "The rune has been activated."

Lucas was impressed. The sight before him was captivating.

He had thought that it would all be slow and boring just like Sean said but to witness it with his very eyes was something else entirely.

"What does this rune do?" Lucas asked, his curiosity getting the better of him.

"I'm not sure," Sean admitted.

"Huh?"