What Keeps It Working?

Those same runes then attached to Kentucky and Rean's bodies. Looking from afar, one might even think there were some shining ants crawling around everyone's bodies. Only up close would one see the intricate yet simple runes that worked against the Freezing Energy and even the Glacial Decay Runes.

Rean walked to their side, then looked deep at Duleti and the runes working on her body. 'Hum... as expected, they still aren't as efficient as I wanted them to be,' Rean commented to Zangeshu inside the Celestial Soul Dimensional Realm.

Sure enough, Rean wasn't working alone. All this while, Zangeshu worked with the materials inside the Dimensional Realm to make prototypes of the runes. Then, with Zangeshu's help, the two of them figured out how to adapt the runes to the simple materials Rean had available to him.