You Should Thank Me

Of course, he had no intention of creating exactly the same Aether Sun Cores. The one Cekt had modified was set up to replace and eventually grow a real sun. This was far too advanced for an Aetherist apprentice like Jake.

He could guess roughly what the various symbols did, but some of them were just too intricate to understand. Given enough time, and his ability to instantly replicate the Aether Runes and Symbols cast at least once, he was confident he could do it.

Except it would take years.

Even assuming he had an eidetic memory and thousands of times the observational and comprehension skills of a normal person, the amount of data was just too great. Even a supercomputer had its limit, let alone a human, nearly human... not really human like him.