A Wolf's Howl, A Fairy's Wing

Chapter 265: Chapter 265 - An obstacle

"You're missing something?" Elora halted her calculations to do the mental equivalent of staring at him quizzically. "What's wrong?"

He scratched his chin and furrowed his brows. "I think my insights into the ice affinity are too shallow…" he pondered. "I can still recognize the symbols that wouldn't work, but I think I may have simply failed to draw one that would have, due to the missing insights into ice."

While their current method was far less reliant on deep knowledge of an affinity than the alternatives, he still needed to have reached a certain threshold in order to actually draw the sigil.

So far, he had assumed any symbols he had failed to draw were because they simply weren't stable enough to become the foundation of thundersnow.

But now, after three weeks of not even coming close to finishing a rune or glyph, he decided it had to be something else. And what else could it be, besides his relatively low understanding of ice?

After all, he had only had the ice affinity for a month. The winter wolf bloodline did give him some insights into ice, and while Earth's current development stage also helped with gaining insights, it seemed that even their combination wasn't enough…

Perhaps they should have realized this as a problem sooner, but the fact was that neither of them had ever fused affinities before, and it was hard to determine the exact insight requirements from mere re

Erik nodded in agreement, but still turned to Eira, who was hopping from one foot to the other in an uncomfortable display. She hadn't heard anything Elora and Erik had said to each other, after all.

"You're not wrong, Eira, but I'd still like you to show me," he told her, sympathetically.

"I…" Eira began with struggle in her eyes. Doing this would mean disobeying another of her mistress's orders.

Erik quickly realized her struggle. "I appreciate your loyalty, Eira. But after we transfer you to a new medium, we'd be able to access these resources with or without your help anyway."

A sad glint passed through Eira's eyes. She may be excited to start her adventures in a new medium, but she still didn't like the fact that she would soon be unable to follow most of her mistress's directions.

The argument was still effective, however. She sighed, and nodded, before suddenly disappearing.

While she was gone, Elora's voice sounded in his head again. "It really is surprisingly easy for Eira to disobey Audumla, despite being a sigil construct created by her… I wonder why that is."

Her thought would continue to go unanswered for a while longer, however, as before Erik could respond, Eira was already back again.