First Legendary Dragon: Starting With The Limitless System-Chapter 40: Forming the Rune

Lumi became silent for a second before replying,

[Even your soul will be damaged if you fail repeatedly, Master.]

"Then I just need to make sure that I won’t fail again." He lightly smiled and took a deep breath before focusing his will on the surrounding mana.

All the mana in his Sea of Consciousness surged and began swirling around the Darkness Affinity; all the other affinities moved further away from this place, giving Orion ample room to form his first rune.

[You haven’t learned the Runic Language completely yet as well.]

Lumi quietly reminded him.

"All right, all right, enough. Let me try to form one now, or else you might really talk me out of it. It isn’t life‑threatening just yet." Orion said before calling forth the mana toward his finger.

Just as the mana gathered, the dark orb of light in front of him pulsed with a dark aura, greedily sucking all the mana that he had gathered.

He slowly fed it the mana before starting to form an Origin Glyph. ’Slow and steady, first I need to form an Origin Glyph to start forming the Affinity Rune. This step is the easiest and also the hardest.’

Gently, he guided the mana and began forming the Origin Glyph. The Darkness Affinity continued to absorb all the mana that Orion fed to it.

While his hand continued to form thin strands of mana toward the faintly forming Origin Glyph, the glyph started to take shape of darkness, as if it was about to jump on someone to curse them.

However, all of a sudden, the darkness exploded and threw Orion’s will straight out of his Sea of Consciousness.

COUGH!!

He coughed out blood while placing his hand on his chest.

[MASTER!]

Lumi’s worried voice quickly sounded in his mind.

"Cough, I—I’m fin—cough—" His lips leaked blood as he saw all his mana channels showing faint signs of cracking.

He frowned his brows as the damage was far greater than he had expected. "The hell... haa haaa... went wrong? And why the fuck is the damage so much greater than what I heard of?"

He took a deep breath and wiped the blood off his lips. "I wasn’t reforging a rune but making a new one. The damage shouldn’t have been to this extent."

Lumi calmed down after seeing him stabilize himself.

[Master, maybe it was due to your affinity level. And you failed due to your low understanding of the Darkness Affinity. You need to have a good understanding of the element you want to form an Affinity Rune of, after all.]

He took a deep breath and stood up from the ground, walking toward the bed. "Haa..." He dropped down on the bed. "Looks like I need to spend more time understanding the nature of these elements before I can form runes of them."

[You started with a hard one as well. Light or Darkness is not a simple affinity. Maybe you would have succeeded if you had started with one of the basic affinities.]

"Whatever, but I need to be more careful when trying to form Fire and Thunder affinity runes. They might really rupture my entire mana channels if I try to form their Affinity Runes rashly." He placed his right hand on his face and closed his eyes.

[Don’t need to be so depressed, Master. You had only awakened just a while ago; failu—]

"I’m thinking about how to explain my injuries to Grandpa and Grandma. These little setbacks aren’t enough to make me depressed," he speechlessly said.

[(☉｡☉)! I can’t help with that.]

"I know; that’s why I’m wondering if I should just come clean to them. But then I’d need to tell them where I got my hands on an Affinity Rune. Haa... so many problems."

Knock Knock

"Master, dinner time!" Rina’s cheerful voice came from outside, making Orion raise an eyebrow.

"...Come inside, both of you." He thought for a second and said.

Rina pushed open the gate and came inside with Fiora. However, their bodies paused and their eyes widened as soon as they saw blood on the floor.

"MAS—"

"MA—"

"Shhh." Orion sat up and gestured for them to stay silent.

They quickly placed their hands on their mouths and looked at him up and down to make sure he was all right.

"Master, what happened here? Are you all right?" Rina quickly stepped forward and asked worriedly.

Fiora looked around the room for any sign of an intruder before walking toward him.

"Haa, it’s nothing serious. I was just training in my mana and got a little injured. Clean up the mess and don’t tell anyone about this." Orion said before standing up and stretching his body.

However, his entire body froze as he felt a sharp pain all over. ’Ugh, this shit feels like the back pain I had in my previous life.’

[That was due to your bad posture, Master. You should sit straight so you don’t become an old man quickly.]

He slowly loosened up and looked at the two of them quickly cleaning the ground. He glanced down and saw his own shirt stained with blood.

Shaking his head, he headed toward the washroom to take a quick bath and change his outfit.

Rina quietly watched as he headed inside the washroom before she subtly shifted toward Fiora and asked in a low voice, "What do you think happened with Master? Was it really only an issue with his training?"

Fiora glanced here and there before lowering her head and saying in a soft voice, "What else can it be? You think any intruder can come here with Old Master and Old Mistress present? Not to mention Sir Edgar and Madam Helena are there as well, keeping watch on everything."

Rina placed a finger on her chin and nodded in agreement. "Hmm, what you say is true. Then should we notify Old Master of this incident?"

Fiora frowned, her eyebrows completely turning indecisive. "I—I don’t know."

Rina turned to look in the direction of the washroom. "Haa... leave it to Old Master. If it’s something serious, then it won’t escape his gaze."

Fiora quickly nodded in agreement as both of them stood up after cleaning the bloodstains and went to help Orion.

...

He quickly finished taking a bath and changed clothes before walking out of the room.

"Don’t tell Grandpa or Grandma about my injury; no need to worry them needlessly," he softly said while walking.

Rina and Fiora quickly nodded their heads while subtly glancing at each other. They had already discussed this before, so Orion now ordering them to do the same didn’t have much meaning.

Soon, they reached the dining hall. "Good evening, Grandpa, Grandma." He greeted them both with a smile and walked inside.

There, the maids were placing food on the table while Eldric and Selene were sitting, waiting for Orion to join them.

"Haha, lad, you got here early today." Eldric smiled and welcomed him.

"Rina and Fiora came by early to remind me of dinner." He smiled and took his seat.

Eldric’s gaze paused as he closely looked at Orion’s body, his gaze sharpening all of a sudden as a dense aura exuded from his body. "Who hurt you?"