The might of Rule Power is far beyond anything any conventional Skill can compare to. Even a Level 3 Initial Stage Mage at the level of Rule Enlightenment, a casual strike empowered by Rules is something no Level 2 Peak Wizard can set side by side with—let alone the subsequent tiers of Rule Mastery, Rule Transformation, and Rule Spark. Every step is a qualitative leap.
Duke extended his Spiritual Power into that fiery-red branch and carefully felt out the structure within.
The inside of the branch was not solid; instead, like a real twig, it possessed a complex internal network of veins.
The arrangement of those veins was almost identical to the Flame Rules' veins he had seen during the Rule Baptism—not the artificial constructs of a Magic Model, but the trajectory of the Rules themselves running in their natural state.
