Chapter 649

• "I bet it's all in here." He held out a hand and Laara gave the book to him. A quick turn of the page revealed what he already knew. Runes of the ancient language lay within, explaining the process, and it included the magical runes that he needed to know, to get to 'click', to control it. He touched the pages, and while a tiny tingle danced along his fingers, it was clear he'd already absorbed the knowledge from Greg, and Greg had absorbed it from the book.
• "Sacrifice," he said. "It's about souls, resonance, and essence. Souls are... complicated, and I still don't have the information to understand them, but I know they act as tethers to resonance and essence. Or maybe cages, or homes. To make an imbued weapon, you shatter a soul, trap the resonance and essence, and the two energies feed off each other like some kind of fission explosion. But the weapon has to be keyed to someone, so they can drip feed their own essence into it to keep the reaction going."
• Caera raised a brow, but hissed and shook her head, like trying to dislodge an insect. She'd raised the wounded eyebrow. Lasca and Laara both stared at him like he was God speaking in puzzles.