Rule of Freezing

So Abel got right into it. He used his power of the Will to make records of the strange patterns he saw. The process seemed to be much more difficult than he had originally imagined, though. Some sort of strange powers probably protected the rune. If he wanted to see these patterns clearly, he had to be forceful and continuously activate energy waves from his wizard crystal body. He expended a lot of energy just to keep the runes visible to him, and each one was complex in its own way. From just the first half of the rune, he felt half of his mana depleted.

He opened his eyes and was surprised by the message he saw coming from his druid spirit. It was already the morning of the second day. He's spent more time on just half of the rune than sleeping. The scariest part, actually, was that he didn't notice until after. 

He shook his head and murmured to himself, "That's it, I'll look it up in the dark world the next time. This is a waste of time."