Danmachi - Infinite Mana System!

Chapter 108 - Antares 04.

[Chapter Size: 1500 Words.]
Third Person POV
Somewhere outside Orario.

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Riveria, despite her knowledge primarily focused on offensive and healing magic, had a solid foundation in more comprehensive magical theories, the result of decades of study and experience. She approached Lucius, observing the runes attentively. "I remember seeing something similar in an ancient tome in the library of my father's palace," she commented, frowning in concentration.

Lucius looked around the place and turned to Riveria, "Let's first record all the runes, both the runes of Antares' prison and those of the beast itself created by the dungeon." He spoke and took a book from his spatial inventory.

"How envious..." Riveria commented, since Lucius could bring his own things.

Lucius was not worried about waking Antares, as perhaps only Artemis could do that with her divine intuition. In the following hours, Lucius dedicated himself to studying the magical runes that made up the seal. He knelt beside the defeated monster, his attention turned to the intricate symbols that still glowed faintly on the floor and around the beast.

Riveria also observed the writings, but without success in learning easily, she was impressed by Lucius' concentration at her side. "Do you understand something?" she asked, curious.

Lucius, with his eyes fixed on the runes, nodded slowly. "These runes are incredibly complex. They contain layers of magic that intertwine in ways I've never seen before, it's even more complex than my mana zone."

He spent hours analyzing the patterns, tracing the symbols with his fingers, and murmuring to himself as he deciphered the understanding and patterns in the ancient lines.

"These runes are not just for sealing Antares," Lucius explained. "They are also designed to contain and dissipate magical energy, preventing the monster from using its power to absorb external magic, but it doesn't work with divine magic, so Artemis was walking into the lion's den..."

Riveria, with her own magical knowledge, followed Lucius's explanations. "So, they were created not only to imprison but also to neutralize its abilities. It's a defensive and offensive magic at the same time. It was really necessary to stop Artemis-Sama, otherwise, we would be in danger..."

"We will be in danger anyway, let's destroy the monster anyway," Lucius spoke without taking his eyes off the runes, after all, the runes are weakening, soon the monster will free itself anyway, so he must put an end to it.

While working on the runes, Lucius had a flash of understanding that made him relate the structure of the runes to programming and mathematical concepts from his world of origin. He began to realize that the runes, like programming codes, followed a specific logic and could be 'programmed' to perform specific functions.

"The structure of these runes is similar to programming logic," Lucius murmured to himself without Riveria hearing this. "Each rune is like a line of code, and the way they are organized and interact with each other determines the function of the seal."

Inspired by this revelation, Lucius began to approach the sealing magic in a new and innovative way. He treated each rune as if it were a part of a larger algorithm, carefully calculating its position and relationship with the others to maximize the efficiency of the seal.

Riveria observed Lucius with interest, surprised by what he was doing, joining the seals of a strange line with other symbols she had never seen before. "What is this? Why put points and commas and place the runic symbols inside these strange boxes? What you are doing is quite different from the sealing magic technique here," she commented interested in what her boyfriend was doing.