When Everything Is Over, Let's Continue Running Our Restaurant

The Thunderstorm Mountains, in the underground cave.

"Things are looking bad. Judging from our current progress, it'll be very difficult for us to interpret the entire spell formation runes before the seal loses effectiveness completely, much less enhance and reseal it." Novan sighed dispiritedly.

Babla sighed dispiritedly, and relentlessly said, "It's just a few characters on the runes. Can't we enhance the basics first?"

"A spell formation is a whole. If you cannot completely interpret a spell formation, and then repair and enhance it as a whole, any changes made to it might cause the spell formation to collapse." Novan shook his head. "This spell formation is way more complicated than most of the spell formations today. It's not something we could tweak easily."

"Chi, chi…"

The Great Old One started laughing in a low tone, as though it was mocking their futile efforts.