The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 1425

Chapter 1425: Where To Put The Stones

Karl laughed at the look on the Chaos Dragon’s face, then set the bag full of System Stones down on the floor.

"Would you like me to arrange these somewhere?" He asked.

"No. I have a better idea. I’m going to make a puzzle, and whoever wants to use the stones will have to arrange them on their own. It will be glorious." Matilda insisted.

That was ... evil.

There were ninety-nine stones to the full array, and all but the inner ring were identically shaped with runes on all six sides.

So, there were two orientations for each stone that were viable, and ninety positions for all but the inner nine stones to go in. Trying to get them all properly placed while relying on luck would take centuries.

Even just setting them up would take hours for Karl, and he already knew what the array was supposed to look like, and how it worked.

But Misty had said that he could take the time to study before he went out.

"Alright, you make the puzzle, and I will study the stones until I understand this thing I’m not quite comprehending about Mana Manipulation. I’m close to it, I can feel it. I just need a bit more time."

"Take all that you need. Nobody messes with my stuff, especially when I’m home. It’s more important that you gain comprehension than that I get to start my plan to mess with future generations.

That’s one of the joys of immortality. You get to watch a well laid plan come to fruition, no matter how many times it takes them to get it right." Matilda agreed.

Karl sat on one of the impossibly purple pillows, and focused on the bag of System Stones, mentally rearranging them into new positions, and estimating what would happen if they were placed incorrectly.

The flow of the mana, the contradiction between the runes and the intent. The more that he studied it, the more that he understood about how mana was intended to work, and how it could be altered without breaking the Fundamental Rules.

Then, as he experimented, he began to understand that the other rules could be used to break one of the Fundamental Rules, overlaying their power to warp reality in ways that it was not intended to be.

That was what had happened with Cara’s scar.

The Divine Power of Order, an unfathomable step more potent than the Fundamental Rule that it grew out of, had simply dominated all attempts to change its intent.

While Karl couldn’t do that, what he could do was a tiny fraction of the same thing. He could use the Fundamental Rules to set a permanent condition, in effect as long as another Rule was not used by someone of a similar comprehension level to negate it.

That was how the System Stones were enchanted. King Caramon, who had what appeared to be a complete understanding of one of the rules, had overlaid it on the enchantment to create a nearly indestructible set of stones, whose intended purpose could not be perverted by those weaker than his Rule.

The stones had been made when he was an Immortal, so there were very few in this world who could even hope to challenge the stone’s magic.

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