The outer frame was etched with complex runic patterns, each one carefully carved to guide and stabilize the flow of mana.
This was not her first attempt.
Not even close.
Nymira had spent countless hours researching, testing, and failing.
She had visited the Elemental Research Department numerous times, gathering data on how different elemental magics interacted with one another. Her findings led her to ancient records—accounts of legendary elves who had once wielded multiple elemental affinities simultaneously.
At first, she thought them exaggerated.
Impossible, even.
But the more she studied, the more she realized there was truth hidden beneath the legends.
If such a thing had once existed… then it could be recreated.
That belief became her obsession.
Her goal was simple in theory, yet nearly impossible in practice—to create an artefact capable of housing and stabilizing multiple elemental magics within a single core.
