CH458 Tattooed Orc
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Azgrug's thirst for power provided Alex with the perfect opportunity to confirm whether Rune Tattoos could be bound in Verdantis without first finding a workaround for the plane's rejection of his Rune-Tech platform.
'The direct inscribing method I used for Zora is off the table,' Alex thought. 'But the scroll-grafting method I used for myself and the earlier ox subjects should still work… at least in theory.'
The Rune Tattoos had already been completed within the Rune Scroll. They existed as fully formed Greater Runes, sealed and stabilised. However, Alex could not be certain whether the final grafting of the Rune into a living host would be accepted by Verdantis' rules.
After all, the grafting process itself was still a method foreign to this plane—or at least, to the best of his knowledge.
Alex shifted his gaze to Azgrug, now standing bare to the waist before him, before turning to the table beside them.
