[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage":3,"chapter-re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-chapter-500":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Re: Tales of the Rune-Tech Sage",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},148163,246,"Chapter 499: Workaround II","re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-chapter-500",500,"\u003Cp>CH499 Workaround II\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>***\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the step complete, Alex now had two Simulation Programs; one for Pangea and one for Verdantis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Now... let’s join them together.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex closed the Beta Bracer’s screen, then focused on the OmniRune floating within his Mindspace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His consciousness was pulled into the Greater Rune’s internal workspace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside that mental space, Alex saw the two versions of the Simulation Formation hovering before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes narrowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Duplicate both formations,’ he prompted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, another copy of the Pangea and Verdantis Simulator Formations was produced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex swiped away the original copies, leaving only the duplicates behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Bring up the Translator Formation.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>OmniRune didn’t need further prompting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It brought up the Translator Formation, duplicated it, then archived the original away. The duplicate was then placed neatly between the two Simulator Formations—like a bridge being laid across two world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Connecting the AI to my mind so it can use my thinking patterns as a development model is starting to bear fruit.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>OmniRune’s actions made it clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had already grasped what Alex intended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to use the Translator Formation as a bridge between the two Simulator Formations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, even with that awareness, OmniRune still held back at the final step—recognising its role as an assistant, and not the decision-maker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It waited for confirmation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Do it,’ Alex instructed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, OmniRune began testing different methods to connect the three formations together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Alex was doing this directly inside his mind, the entire process was fuelled by his mental energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, whether it was the Simulator Formations or the Translator Formation, Alex had always envisioned them being ported, linked, and layered into other formations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They already contained specific porting routes and compatibility anchors. This reduced OmniRune’s workload drastically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a short but intense sequence of adjustments, OmniRune finally found the correct alignment– the right porting angles and the right connections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the formations connected, a soft explosion rippled through Alex’s Mindspace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The space itself trembled as if reality had just been rewritten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Phew...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex heaved a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The Emulator Grand Formation is complete.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared at the formation floating before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three formations had fused into one seamless structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single grand formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But OmniRune didn’t stop there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compression!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire Grand Formation compressed violently inward, folding and collapsing into itself until it condensed into a single Greater Rune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex was abruptly ejected from the workspace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His consciousness snapped back into his Mindspace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up just in time to see OmniRune’s floating form shift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Greater Rune morphed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its structure changed, and in the next breath, OmniRune had transformed into the newly created Emulator Rune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex’s eyes snapped open in the real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His heart pounded once, but hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The moment of truth...’ he thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he attempted to spell-cast again...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, he did it through his Rune-Tech platform, but with one small twist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of directly forming the spell’s runes outside his body with mana, Alex used the remainder of his mental energy to construct the spell formation inside his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since it was formed within his Mindspace, the spell naturally took shape as a Runic Formation, exactly as he intended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, Alex fed that runic formation into OmniRune’s Emulator Greater Rune form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The construct manifested inside the Pangea Simulator portion of the Greater Rune, where it was immediately decomposed into its individual semantic rune structures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those semantic structures flowed into the Translator segment of the Greater Rune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, they were translated using the Rune–Sigil pairing library OmniRune had already curated earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, the translated output was transposed into the Verdantis Simulator, where it took form as a Sigil structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, OmniRune projected the Sigil structure outward from Alex’s Mindspace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above Alex’s hand, a spell formation—built from Sigils—assembled itself in the real world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mana Ball]!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a basic, acolyte-level spell, yes. But it also represented far more than that to Alex in this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a breakthrough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A workaround to a constraint that had threatened to cripple both Alex and his Rune-Tech platform on Verdantis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that small success, Alex snapped one of the chains holding Rune-Tech down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack~!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just as his excitement surged—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The projected spell formation above his hand suddenly shattered into fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex palmed his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’That’s right...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression twisted into a grimace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Mental state is one of the variables that determines a Sigil’s nature. If my mental state shifts, the effect of a Sigil can increase, decrease... or even change completely.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His rising excitement had altered the nature of one or more Sigils mid-cast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The formation destabilised, and the spell collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Runes are better,’ Alex grumbled, letting his bias slip out unfiltered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Runes weren’t affected by mental state. They could be cast and forgotten with no fluctuations nor instability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at the same time, that also meant runes couldn’t be strengthened or weakened by mental state either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And depending on the situation, that could be an advantage in its own right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex then had a thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He conjured another spell formation and sent it into OmniRune’s Emulator rune form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The runic spell formation was translated into its Sigil equivalent...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...but the spell didn’t cast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’As expected.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I don’t understand the mental state required to stabilise the Sigils. So the spell formation collapses before it can even fully assemble.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, OmniRune was linked directly to his Mindspace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That meant the AI could replicate different ’mental state’ energy patterns, adjusting them for each Sigil until the correct state was achieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It added another variable to an already exhausting grind, but at least it meant there was a path forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex was about to call it a night and leave OmniRune to handle the brute-force testing when the AI suddenly acted on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mana Ball]!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>OmniRune re-cast the very spell that had just succeeded through their connection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unlike Alex, OmniRune’s ’mental state’ didn’t fluctuate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It remained perfectly stable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so the spell formation also held perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alex’s eyes widened, and he immediately cut the spell off before it could fully cast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The implication hit him like a hammer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First came shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—Pure excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>***\u003C\u002Fp>",1030,"2026-05-29T03:49:10.137Z","2026-06-01T04:29:07.188Z",1,"novelbin.me","65795e97d2d0bcfeb3bdeb9ee44641ce3d532f9229f6ce2e419d798a82ac793f","re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-chapter-301","re-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-chapter-499",692,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fre-tales-of-the-rune-tech-sage-cover.jpg"]