The System

CH- 11: Ru'nic Magic System.

    Trial and error. The basic steps of life.

    Tetsu experimented with his symbol that might become a hack for life and perhaps even godhood. Yet the style he chose to create this hack was playful.

    Yes, it was a game, and Tetsu enjoyed every second. Lost in his muse, life was nothing but a game. He won every round, even though the result yielded an error. Error meant knowledge, and in a world filled with unknown factors, every failure became a path to success. Also, an error gave him the chance to test out an even better and crazier theory.

Fire, water, earth, and air are the four basic elements. Even their symbols closely resembled each other. But this isn't what Tetsu was after. He didn't even care about their next forms or sub-elements.

His intent was clear, mana-focused, knowledge filled to the brim, and source ever present, Tetsu just lacked the right symbol to accomplish his ultimate goal.

He compared English letters with their respective symbols of enforcement. Next, he compared his childish drawing.

Switch, cut, modify, and trail. Tetsu worked on several symbols simultaneously as his muse declined a few creations before Tetsu tested them out.

Tetsu got lured into the realm of lines and curves. Each curve spoke to him and pointed him in the right direction. His heart ached in this realm. Not the fatal kind, but the gentle squeeze as one finds love.

The symbols blazed at a distance as Tetsu got nearby. He could feel the heat on his skin. A gentle tug on his heart, telling him to move closer.

Before testing the new symbol, Tetsu smiles. He foresaw its succession before the actual process.

For the last time, Tetsu places his palm over the new symbol. It took a whole for him to calm himself and focus and once he did a 'ding!' Sound proved his Precognition.

A stream of information floods into Tetsu's mind before his system notification rings him up about his success.

The soil beneath Tetsu comprised several vivid mud particles that complimented each other to support wildlife. Mana is stored and transmitted with ease between these particles. These soils are the concussion of alchemists who primarily make them for tutorial grounds. Large mixtures of these soils are harmful to normal plant life, as they require high amounts of mana to maintain. Under tutorial grounds, they have plenty of Mana and help vicious plant life to thrive and grow faster, while in any other circumstance, they would drain the life out of any being that sets foot on the soil. By a simple process, they suck out every inch of mana and starve the body to death. If in time they don't receive more mana, they themselves die instantly by exhaustion.

You might wonder why Tetsu knows all of this. If you twist this question a bit and wonder how he knows all these facts, you will understand the simple fact.

Tetsu learned a rather simple symbol similar to our Bluetooth icon back on Earth. Moon and Mars have weirder symbols, but that's a topic for a later date. This symbol of enforcement is called info or information. In a world unknown, Tetsu found a hack to know it all. Starting with his first test subject, the ground beneath him, a deluge of information about tutorial ground invaded Tetsu's mind.

"Plain old simple mud has so much information hidden behind..." Tetsu coughs out blood.

His vision gets blurry and his mind plays tricks, showing the bloodstains dance. "Overdid it a–" Tetsu croaks mid-sentence and collapses on his back.

During his muse run, he pushed his body, brain, and mana over and beyond their limit. Now all the backlash from the three powers attacked his health pool and spiked his fatigue levels.