The Crawford's Multiverse of Madness

Chapter 160 - Hybrid Runes

Recently Zeel, Alice, and Elizabeth had delved into runic technology, which was just channeling dimensional power through runes that serve specific purposes.

Zeel believed this was somewhat similar to magic but still it was more technology-based.

Zeel had never visited a Universe that truly had magic, but he had come in contact with the mysterious energy before.

However, the majority of the time magicians were just people who manipulated Dimensional energies.

Zeel had only met two True Magicians in his lifetime and they were extremely secretive about their universe's location.

Thinking about this, Zeel was making the final tweaks to a program he created to analyze the runes that had been previously burned into his memory – Latvian Runes.

Zeel formulated new ways to make runes through The Red Queen's calculation so every rune would be especially suited for the situation, though he had yet to produce a truly successful result.

Some runes would work in some areas and others would not, some runes would work in some worlds vibrational threshold and some would not, some runes that are meant to gather a ball of water would gather a single drop, and so forth.

Further calibration was needed but so far this was the most important Project in Zeel's workshop at the moment.

His other projects were put on hold since technology could only take you so far and Alice had taken up the Consciousness Cloning Project since she could barely perceive the souls of those who deserved punishment now.

Alice described the appearance of the soul as a faint light that had splashes of black depending on the severity of the sin.

She also told Elizabeth and Zeel that while she could also see their souls, it was much brighter than others, almost blindingly so.

Hence, she couldn't get a good look at their soul states, but Zeel's had a black aura around it instead of spots on the soul itself.

"It is almost abyssal black in its entirety," Alice said as she describes Zeel's soul to him.

Zeel nodded but did not comment since this was only to be expected given the chains that sealed his soul.

Landing at the Athens International Airport, the group then made their way to a car rental shop.

While in the car, Zeel handed out disk-shaped isolation modules made with small traces of vibranium "It's a device that conducts excess frequency-sound dilations and converts it into kinetic energy that makes your jumps pack an extra punch if you use it correctly,"

"How does it work exactly?" David asked playing with it a bit.

"Figure it out on your own," Elizabeth snorted feeling like she was giving monkeys banana who still had the audacity to ask what it was.

After attaching the isolation modules, the group jumped to a nearby hotel Zeel had bought just earlier, opting to simply set their stuff down and continue to the Acropolis of Athens.

Zeel, Alice, and Elizabeth had their storage dimension so they simply left an empty bag at the hotel.

Jumping directly to the location, the group had a hard time imagining the structure as the base of the Paladins since it was kind of too obvious.

The Parthenon was located on elevated ground in the ancient city Acropolis of Athens, former home of the Goddess of Wisdom, War and Handicraft – Athena, at least that is the case should legends be believed.

"What do you feel?" Zeel asked no one in particular.

"A weakened sub-dimension," Alice replied to which he nodded.