The Ruthless Earth Mage (6)

─Whirrrrr!

The rune mana inside me awoke.

What I was about to unleash was a mere parlor trick, hardly some grand magic or secret technique. As I’ve said many times, the rune magic humans can wield amounts to little more than support.

─The role of language is to speak, listen, write, and convey.

The unicorn’s words came back to me. They really hadn’t been wrong at all.

Rune language was fundamentally language, too. It could be used for magical purposes, but when you got down to it, it was a kind of character, like the alphabet.

Weave it—the first syllable of the runic alphabet.

It was the very first runic character, meaning ‘mouth.’ Since sounds made by the mouth were language’s most primitive aspect, this character also meant ‘to convey meaning.’

─A symbol of the bard’s wit and the magician’s wisdom.

─The rune of poetry, legend, and prophecy...