Supreme Magus

l item ’s inanimate nature.

The number of necessary mana pathways depended on the pseudo core ’s strength.
Too few and the mana forming the core would be dispersed, too many and it would crumble.

Lith first created the pseudo core between his hands, giving it perfect size and proportions.
Invigoration allowed him to see in detail both his own creation and the mana core crafted with fake magic, so that by comparing them he could fix any mistake.

Then, he made it engulf the ring.
At first, the purified Orichalcum absorbed the pseudo core like a sponge does with water.
After a while, however, the flow of energy bearing Lith ’s energy signature and that bearing the three purple crystals ’ were matched in power.

The pseudo core started to distort, forcing Lith to stop and restore its shape.
At that point, he wielded his enchanted Forgemastering hammer and used Solus ’s help to overcome the rejection caused by the two conflicting energies.

Solus had now to split both her focus and the world energy coming from the mana geyser between the magic circle and the hammer.
Without the former, the mystical energies of the Forgemastering process would dissipate while without the latter Lith would lack the strength to imbue such powerful magic into the ring.

Each time the Forgemastering hammer was filled to the brim with mana coming from Lith and Solus, it would strike at the enchanted ring, emitting a blinding pulse of blue light that was captured by the circle and channeled into the ongoing spell.

The purified Orichalcum offered little resistance to the mana flow compared with its just smelted counterpart.
The phenomenon had allowed the energy coming from the purple crystals to form a complex mana circulatory system that filled every nook and cranny of the ring.

Luckily, the same happened for the runes, whose network of mana capillaries constantly mixed Lith ’s mana with that coming from the crystals and made the Forgemastering process possible.

’It ’s incredible. ’ Lith thought.
’I have barely started and the procedure would have already failed if not for the runes.

’The secondary mana circulatory system the runes create not only allows the mana from the pseudo core to freely flow inside the ring as if I had already added a few mana pathways, but it also stabilizes the pseudo core, so that even under the energy amplifying effect of the Orichalcum, the number of imperfections that arise is fewer than ever. ’

The more the pseudo core seeped inside the ring, the more it grew in size and power.
What had started as a construct with only 75% of Lith ’s power had already reached 90% on its own and would soon go over 100%.

A Forgemaster couldn ’t imbue a spell stronger than his own magical power.
It was the reason why having multiple mages powering up a magical circle was useless and why Lith needed the hammer.

With it, Solus could add a power boost from the tower and made it possible for them to overcome their limits.
By the time the pseudo core had reached the center of the mana circulatory system, it had grown to 120% of Lith power.

All he had left to do was to create the mana pathways to complete the process. 

With each mana pathway Lith created, the two conflicting energy signatures coming from the pseudo core and the crystals started to mix.
The violence of the clashes between them progressively faded until they became one.

”It ’s done! ” Lith immediately imprinted the barrier ring and put its capabilities to the test.
A sphere of emerald light surrounded him, protecting him from any kind of danger.

Lith made the barrier shrink until it barely wrapped him while he was in a crouched position and expand up to a two meters (6,6 feet) radius.
The mana required varied greatly with the barrier ’s size and energy density.

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