Jen took care of all the practical day to day decisions, continued her study of the coms devices, grinding relentlessly on her psych, multi-focus, and mental overclock skills, while Sam spent the next three days in multi-focus learning how the “code” controlled multiple dimensions of the magic within the ring enchantment and the armor enchantments.

Sam said, “Kelly, I’m starting to understand these enchantment runes more each time I work on them.

With the space ring and armor enchantments, all the variables have to be defined. This is both good and bad. It’s good, because the code revealed that the silver in my minor space ring has a bit of mana infused into the metal.”

Sam was working with the ring’s code in his onboard trying to add an encryption element to the code for any future rings he tried to make. He didn’t want anyone without the encryption key to be able to open or use the ring.

“What’s really masterful about the design of the ring’s code, is it does not take a massive amount of mana to use. The space ring simply interacts with each of the items being stored and assigns them a unique identifier while storing them. Then it “defines” them as being in a void of space connected to the ring.”

Sam then pulled out Ganjo’s sword and armor. It was ridiculously heavy, but he activated the enchantment and the armor became light as a feather as he hooked his index finger under the shoulder pauldron and easily picked up the chest plate. Sam was amazed at the strength of Ganjo, because he would still have to wear the armor without activating the enchantment. The activation of the enchantment on the armor would only last for about 30 minutes, but that was more than enough for most battles. After the enchantment ran out of mana, the owner would probably have to spend days charging it back up, or even possibly take it to a merchant with a large mana pool to charge the item.

Sam inspected the code on the armor again,

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“You see these enchantments Kelly. I think these were created using building blocks. A type of one-size fits all code for providing power to enchantments, another block for strength is added, and another block for manipulating gravity. These building blocks are not nearly as mana efficient, but they make it much easier to build an enchantment.”

As Sam looked at the enchantments on the space ring and compared them to the hundreds of lines of code that represent its ‘true meaning,’ he said to Kelly, “Of course, there is no way you can fit hundreds of lines of code on a small ring or sword. The enchanter has to use unique symbols or runes to represent the full intent/code of the enchanter. These symbols or runes can then be placed on the object creating a mana empowered enchantment.”

It was Sam’s Words of Understanding skill that allowed him to decipher the true intent of enchantments and turn them into code. If someone other than the original enchanting developer simply copied the runes directly to another object, it wouldn’t do anything, unless the enchanter copying them knew and understood the intent of the original enchanter that created them.

Sam had so many breakthroughs going through the enchantment code for all the different items, and he learned so much that he felt like his brain was going to explode. If not for simultaneously using meditation with his multi-focus, he knew he would not have been able to stay focused, or make the leaps of comprehension he made during his deciphering of the enchantments.

“The meditation skill allows me to work in a trance-like state, which makes it difficult for me to realize time is passing when I am using my other focus to work on the enchantments.”

Sam thought.

That’s when Jen flicked some water in his face and said, “That’s enough, go to sleep. Tomorrow we are finally going to the Arc guild. No arguments. I bet you don’t even realize you reached level 10 and that you raised your Words of Understanding skill to 15, Meditation to 10, and multi-focus to 8! Split your ability points from reaching level 10 equally between agility and your stamina regen. I’ve reached level 9 and brought up my psych skill, meditation, and multi-focus skills as well. We can discuss tomorrow what we’ve learned. Last, you need to actually read your system messages instead of just sending them to me.”

“Will do, Boss!” Sam said with every intention of completely ignoring most of the constant annoying messages.

Jen just glared at him when she felt the emotions that accompanied his response.