Blood Assimilation

The so-called elemental essences are the elements of a world condensed into crystallized forms.

An elemental essence could be found within magic crystals that naturally form in magic-type worlds like his current world, Acruxia, or within creatures that crystallized their magic cores inside their bodies.

Furthermore, the purer they were, the better.

Of course, in the case of such creatures, they needed to have an elemental affinity of some kind for their magic cores to be effective in the spell technique. Furthermore, those elements had to be the main five elements of the existing worlds.

Fortunately, some of the beasts he defeated in the dungeon of beasts had cores that had elemental essences within them.

And now, he planned on using those elemental magic cores to create his first incarnation.

However, there was another problem. It stated that some magical ink was essential to create a runic magic circle. That was if one was using the rudimentary method, but Randy did not have such an ink, let alone whether such a thing even existed in Acruxia.

After all, the current world, Acruxia, was not the same as that of the arch sorcerer's world.

Even if both worlds had mana as their foundational energy, without a doubt, there were potentially bound to be other fundamental differences.

For instance, they might not have the same materials necessary for conducting some unique-type spells or techniques such as the Incarnation Technique.

For now, he planned on using another alternative method devised by the arch sorcerer as a substitute, which was to use his very own blood as the ink.

Recalling the method from his memory, Randy instinctively frowned. He did not like hurting himself every time merely to use some technique.

It was okay if he got hurt in a fight and lost some blood, but to hurt himself intentionally and lose some of his blood was not something he could easily adhere to practicing.

Since it might even affect his state of mind if he were to lose too much blood before battle, but then again, there was no way such a thing could happen. He was most likely worrying too much about this.

However, Randy hated losing his blood for some reason; It was something that even he could not explain to himself.

However, as far as he could remember, he had always felt inexplicable whenever he lost even just a bit of his blood ever since his childhood.

Hence, even though he got hurt and even bled during his battles, he always found it necessary to collect the salvageable blood every time.

After the conclusion of each battle, he then absorbs his blood back into his body.

Back then, even cutting himself to use his Blood Authority skill for the first time was demanding for him, and now, this technique deemed it necessary to use his blood to draw some magic circle.

However, when he thought about how practical the technique could be if he succeeded, he silently gritted his teeth for a few moments before calming down.

Afterward, he poked his right index with a sharp finger energy blade on his left index finger, which he manifested with his mana.

That was his Energy Manifestation skill that he acquired from the crystallized ability stone back when he fought against the chimera monster.

This manifestation ability was versatile and could be used to manifest or create various things, with the only limit being his imagination.

At this point, he had snapped out of his trance.

As he did so, he focused all his attention as he recalled how to inscribe the magical runic circle— a unique type of magic circle necessary for the Incarnation Technique.

However, before he began with the inscription, he wondered whether he should conduct his experiment in the safe room.

But eventually, he let his curiosity overwhelm his sense of security and went ahead and started drawing with his blood on the floor according to his acquired knowledge.

The method of using his blood has a prerequisite, and that was he needed to have mana in his bloodstream.

In other words, his blood should contain some mana particles.

The mana particles in his blood would allow for proper mana transfer or mana circulation.

The blood filled with mana particles would make the blood conductible for mana, thus would be the perfect substitute catalyst for the spell invocation.

Comprehending that, Randy concluded that the reason why the nameless meditation technique needed one to absorb mana into their blood was most likely because of this technique, or at most one of the reasons.

He had this thought as he continued inscribing the magic circle step by step, without missing a single detail.

Soon enough, Randy managed to draw a highly complex magic runic circle with six slots, five of which were at the corner of the created pentagram runic circle.

These five slots represent the five elements that complete every world in existence.

According to what Randy learned from the knowledge from the black tome, coupled with the incarnation technique, each world in existence was composed of the five main elements.

Those elements are the foundational or building blocks of each world.

Namely, those five main elements were— Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, and Wood.

Without each of these elements, a world would be incomplete, meaning such a world would not function properly, and the ecosystem would not exist as not all organisms would not survive in such a world.

After all, all the existing living beings, at their core, were made up of such elements.

As such, they needed those elements to sustain themselves and to continue existing.

That was the reason why those elements were necessary for the creation of an incarnation.

Each of the five circular slots at the corner of the pentagram runic circle represents an element— The five main elements, to be exact.

The conjurer needed to place the elemental essences in each circular slot correspondingly in order for the first step of the spell to be considered complete. That was if excluding the inscribed magical runic circle, of course.

As for the second step, that was another tricky part.

According to the Incarnation Technique, one needed to drop their blood essence in the middle of the center slot of the magical runic circle.

The blood placed in the middle would serve as the medium during the creation of the incarnation.

According to his understanding, this extraction of blood essence was akin to dropping his genes into the magical runic circle for them to be analyzed before the spell-like technique could create his perfect incarnation.

Although this system was not scientific, it still functioned as such based on the knowledge he received.

Based on his discovery, he could even say that this was a magical science, which involved the usage of magic instead of technology.

But like before, Randy was reluctant to part with his blood.

After all, this was the second time he had to draw his blood to execute the same technique.

Not to mention that he wasn't even sure whether it would succeed.

After a bit of hesitation, he let out a sigh as he reluctantly cut his index finger once again since it had already healed a while ago.

The reason why he did not hesitate this time was due to the fact that he already knew about this from reading through the knowledge about the technique before he even decided to use it.

It was just that he thought he only needed his blood for the medium of creation and not also the trigger or the catalyst of the spell.

After all, the technique also mentioned some materials used to draw the runic circle, but he found out later that he did not have such things with him, which was why he had no choice but to use his blood to draw the runic circle.

Just like that, Randy dripped some of his blood at the center of the runic circle, and then he placed the elemental essence cores associated with the five elements in their corresponding slots.

With that, the second and third steps were complete.

Now only the fourth and fifth steps were left.

The fourth step only needed him to insert his mana into the runic circle while chanting an incantation devised by the arch sorcerer.

The recitation process was relatively easy as all he needed to do was fervently and accurately chant the incantation words in order for the magical runic circle to resonate with the world laws of his current world.

After which, he would begin the most significant aspect of the spell technique, but for now, he needed to activate the magical runic circle first.

To ultimately ensure the success of the spell technique, there was another factor that he had to make sure to prevent in the middle of the invocation.

It was stated clearly by the arch sorcerer that if he failed in salvaging the situation, there was a high risk of failure.

"Possible failure? I won't let that happen."

Randy muttered with a determined expression.

With that said, he took a deep breath as he watched his handiwork for a moment as he pondered something, seemingly considering something.

As for why he pondered to himself, it was to carefully check and identify any mistake in the magical runic circle he inscribed on the floor, which he conducted by comparing it to his memories.

Subsequently, he placed his palm over the magical runic circle; This runic magic circle was only about one meter in diameter.