[AN: I really like this chapter]
He shoved the frustration aside and locked his Eye onto the new strokes. Focus. Read. Copy. Whatever he could grab before it disappeared.
'I can't let this opportunity go to waste'
The second rune formed. Different from the first. The self-referencing structure was still there, but now it had branches. Sub-loops within loops. Each branch governed a different aspect of the rune's function, but they all fed back into the central structure. The complexity was staggering. Runar's mind strained to hold even a fraction of it.
He caught another fragment. The way the sub-loops communicated with each other was not sequential. They did not pass information one to the next like links in a chain. They resonated. Like tuning forks struck at the same frequency. The information transfer was instantaneous. Complete. No delay. No degradation.
