The AI began recording immediately.
Morena avoided blinking or moving her eyes away from the faint circle hovering above the booklet just so it wouldn't miss anything. The structure was not large, barely the size of her palm, but it was so complex that she couldn't even begin to understand it.
At first glance, it looked simple: a circle, three short marks along the outer edge, a thin thread curling inward toward the center, and several smaller symbols arranged between them. But it was anything but simple; each symbol was countless tiny markings of the spell language, and even the circle was carved in a specific pattern.
The thread curling inward was the connection to the Matrix, allowing the caster to push mana through the structure and release it outward in a controlled pulse.
That alone made it different from the fragmented diagrams she had seen in theory books.
'So this is what I paid for.'
One hundred and fifteen points.
