'Shit. If I remove the heft, I can regain the 98% synergy, and might be able to shoot fire like a flame thrower from both hands, but I'll lose out on impact. Also, it'll be small and almost irrelevant until close range.'
He weighed it quickly. Blowtorch output was useful. Silent. Controlled. Good for crafting and certain fights. But the Atrax fight had taught him something brutally clear. Impact mattered. Shock mattered. Breaking brittle shell mattered. If he took Heft out of the system completely, he'd be trading survival punches for pretty flames.
Kael sighed. Even with his runes, he couldn't use them freely. There was a law behind the use of each rune, and he had to respect it.
That realization settled into him like an old rule being accepted. Runes weren't spells you owned.
They were personalities you negotiated with.
