After four weeks of continuous work, it was finally at least flight-ready.
The two sets of giant rotor blades, enclosed in steel rings, were attached and calibrated for optimal speed and direction to maximize lift. The mechanism was relatively simple: the hub of the curved blades was etched with repulsion runes, while the tips bore attraction runes. Damian had arranged the mana nodes in a linear sequence. As mana flowed through the pipes in the center, it first activated the repulsion runes, pushing the blades into motion. The mana then reached the tips, triggering the attraction runes, which pulled the back of each blade, completing the rotation.