The Gathering of Clans IV

The afternoon passed rather slowly Cyra was practicing the first stance, to her surprise just after an hour of practice she already gained some additional strength, which were much better than before.

[Congratulation Host for gaining +0.1 Strength]

Later that afternoon Helios came to visit again, this time he come with a little wooden box in his hands, Cyra was curious so she got up and walked to her elder brother and asked, - "What is that?".

Helios didn't delay for time and opened the wooden box and said, - "This is a Rune Inscription Pen, it is used to draw runes, you can inject blood or Essence or even normal ink into it to be able to write with it, this was personally created by Elder Egan, he is the Vice-Leader of the Phoenix Clan and also a great BlackSmith, be sure to thank him the next time you see him." Seeing that Cyra really wanted to hold the pen he decided to don't delay longer and gave it to her.

Cyra took the pen, as she was holding it she could see that it had a golden nib the rest of the pen was dark fiery in color with a Crystal like appearance, as she was moving the pen in her hands it looked like a dragon was inside it, Cyra really liked this gift so she looked at her elder brother thankfully and said, - "Thank you Elder Brother for your gift, I will cherish it!"

"Oh yes before I forget, I also bought you ink and paper so you could practice" Said Helios while took out a package of paper and ink from his ring, than he turned around and left.

The moment Helios left, Cyra sit down by the table and started to practice the Rune of Sight on paper, she discovered that if she used normal ink to draw the Rune it became a Rune Talisman, it had weak effects but lasted as long as she erased it, but on the other hand if she used Essence to draw the Symbol of ᚠ in which case it was 2 to 3 times stronger but only lasted for thirty minutes at maximum, she also tried to draw it with blood but it had no effect like before.

[Congratulation Host for gaining better understanding of the Vision Rune] [0/100%] -> [0.01 % /100%]

The moment Cyra understandings of the Rune risen a strange phenomenon appeared, the Rune gained a faint white glow, the light was barely visible for the naked eye but it was still there..

[System what is This?]

[Rune Glow, as Host can see when you gain the very basics understanding of a Rune it will glow in white]

There are others?

[Yes]

[White] [0.01 %] [Glow of Wisdom] [Open] [Host has the ability to inscribe basic Runes]

[Pink] [10 %] [Glow of Compassion] [Locked] [Host Runes last 2 times longer]

[Host needs to reach 9.99% before Host can enter the arena]

[Purple] [30 %] [Glow of Ambition] [Locked] [Need to unlock the previous Glow before seeing description]

[Blue] [50 %] [Glow of Inspiration] [Locked] [Need to unlock the previous Glow before seeing description]

[Green] [60 %] [Glow of Growth] [Locked] [Need to unlock the previous Glow before seeing description]

[Orange] [70 %] [Glow of Determination] [Locked] [Need to unlock the previous Glow before seeing description]

[Red] [80 %] [Glow of Grace] [Locked] [Need to unlock the previous Glow before seeing description]

[Grey] [90 %] [Glow of Elegance] [Locked] [Need to unlock the previous Glow before seeing description]

[Black] [100 %] [Glow of Perfection] [Locked] [Need to unlock the previous Glow before seeing description]

System what is the arena referring to?

[There are formations inside the Runes, and each one of them is separated into different levels, host has to defeat a mental barrier to unlock higher glow]

Cyrus also had a headache from the Runes, and it was literally headache Cyrus main body was incapable of doing anything with the symbols, the formations inside the memories regarding the technique of Runes that gave his main body unbearable pain the moment he tried to thin of about the symbols, the second avatar wasn't in any better situation since it just passed out every time it tried to think about the Rune, so in the end she gave up and went back to practice with her human body, as she was finally giving up his main body consciousness drifted into a vision, he saw 9 humans, each of them were sitting on giant thrones and they were watching him like some kind of show, on each throne was a symbol similar to the ones that his human self was learning, yet each was different some had slightly deformed form while others had additional parts, as he was observing one of the people stood up and with a wave of his hand and words appeared before him which said, - "These Runes are Created for our descendants unless they give it to you, we won't let you see them evil creature, Cyrus was sent back to reality, but the moment he tried to remember the Symbols he couldn't, he completely forgot them, on his human body could recall memory fragments so he decided to continue learning.

She could feel the difference between the talismans but she wanted to test out them, so she went outside with the talismans in her hand, she used her Essence to activate the Ink Rune, Instantly her sight changed, the surroundings has became much clearer than before she could see little details that she just missed before such as, Marks of birds that were sitting on trees or the rain that came on the afternoon, next she used the Essence Rune, the moment she poured essence into it, it disappeared and her vision became blurry, she could see kids walking by it was almost like she had a vision about the past, but it wasn't long ago and it only lasted for a short period of time.

The next thing she did was to go back inside her room and try to use the Rune on her body, inscription on the body was so painful that she had to bite on something or she could have bitten of her own tongue, first she inscribed the Rune lightly on her skin, she did so to make sure that she didn't ruin the Rune, after finishing the light inscription she started to carve deeper into her own skin, the deeper she got, the brighter the white glow become, and the stronger her sight got, soon the finishing touch came where she simply filled up the deep Rune with Essence Ink, to make sure it will keep it's form even after the skin starts healing.

The next thing she did was to test out the Rune, the moment she started cycling essence inside the body, the Rune lit up with a bright White light, the Rune didn't consume much Essence so she could use it all day, considering that currently she didn't have much technique that needed Essence it was fine, or maybe not after 3 hours using her eyes started to hurt, so she stopped giving Essence to the Rune.

Cyra spent the following days with training and the studying of the Runes, she also learned the Rune of Cage ᚲ [0.02 % /100%], it also gained a white glow, she also tried it with both Essence and Ink, the Ink Cage lasted for one minute but it couldn't even trap a bird, as for the Essence one it lasted only for a maximum of 5 seconds but it capable of restricting the movements of anyone that has lower intelligence than her, thanks to the Knowledge regarding Runes and the Fighting Techniques her intelligence skyrocketed to a scary degree. [Int: 8.37] [Str: 5.12] [E: 3.86]

The 4 days were up and Helios came to visit her again, he was happy to see that Cyra became much stronger than the last time they met, as usual he set down by the chair and said, - "I'm happy to see your improvements, I came to explain the tournament for you, there is actually going to be two tournaments, the first for those who didn't gained the fighting techniques from the talent test instead was granted by the Clans, the tournament goal is to select 10 kids who have the right to take part in the second tournament with the actual talents."

"Soo the First tournament has nothing to do with me.." Said Cyra while turning around and started walking towards her room, Helios not saying anything simply picked her up and started walking towards the arena.

The moment they arrived everybody present bowed to Helios and greeted Cyra, Elder Tou from the Kitsune clan and Elder Egan from the Phoenix clan came by to chat with elder Helios, seeing that Cyra given up on leaving he put her down on the floor and said, - "Cyra you might not be interested in the fight but you have to show face to the Elders present by attending the tournament"

"I understand Elder Brother" Said Cyra than walked towards Elder Egan and performed a slightly bow, - " Thank you Elder Egan for creating that inscription pen for me I really liked it." Said Cyra while sweetly smiling at him.

"Oh, I'm glad you liked it, to tell you the truth I was a bit scared that it wouldn't earn your liking" Said Elder Egan with a smile.

"Elder Egan Don't be so humble, the hier of the Dragon Clan using your work as her first inscription pen is an honor" Said Helios jokingly to his friend..

Cyra was sitting on Helios lap, waiting for the tournament to start, seeing that this time wasn't Helios spoke to the people instead it was Elder Egan has surprised her a bit, seeing how surprised Cyra were Helios said, I was talking in the first test, Elder Egan is talking in the second or I could say first tournament while Elder Tou going to talk in the final tournament.

Soon Vice-Leader Egan stood up and walked on the middle of the arena and said, - "Welcome everyone who came to watch the tournament of strength, in the first round we are going to creat a free for all, the 10 kids out of the 743 that stays standing last will gain the right to participate in the Final Tournament.

Cyra thought that the test with the wolves was wild, but what she witnessed now was rather barbaric, at the begging there were some kids that were way stronger that the others so the rest ganged up on them and knocked them out, the number of kids that were still capable of fighting started to slowly decrease from 743 to 342. There were visibly stronger ones still left in the group but they kept a low profile learning from the fools mistakes, soon Fighting circles were formed around the relatively stronger ones, while the actual strong either decided to be knocked out by some weak attacks or they simply were fighting long battles against weaker opponents so the group of children didn't turned against them, after an hour or soo the number of participants has dropped below 70, the strong ones stopped playing around and got rid of the weak ones, the number decreased slowly until it stopped at 17, the situation became some what weird, since non of them wanted to make a rash decision about who to attack.

The beginning was existing as the masses were fighting but this, it just became boring to the level where Cyra simply fallen asleep, the next instant she was woken up by Helios who took her back to the room.

"Did the competition ended?" Asked Cyra while looking at Helios.

"Yes, here take a look these are the kids that made it into the next round" Said Helios and showed her a paper full of names, these names weren't to much surprise to her since she knew this would be the end result from the beginning.