The stone platform covered in runes was not just a decorated item. Damian could sense five distinct runic arrays inside it. They were weird though—something Damian had never felt before. The spells had.. Souls?
Whenever he tried to use his mana threads to probe one, it resisted and made all his attempts to decipher it ineffective. Living spells? Damian was shaken to the core just thinking about how those came to be. The stone platform.. Indeed, it looked like a sacrificial altar.
"Okay.. Let's see what it does," Damian said, taking a few steps back from the altar.
Without his sacrium mana cubes, his mana pool was probably not enough to activate the altar and all its inscribed spells, but maybe he could activate one or two. Damian used all his mana threads this time to power the stone's runic inscriptions. It sucked his mana like a black hole—no matter how much he poured in, it just kept seeking more.
