"Host, I don't think this is going to work. Look—you've already failed twice!" 008's voice rose in panic as Kisha's second parchment turned useless.
It seemed her focus was skewed—she was channeling most of her consciousness into potion-making and distributing mana into the brews rather than into her inscription work. She had just successfully completed a batch of Stamina Boosters, and another batch was progressing smoothly. The potions' quality hadn't dropped, so there was clearly no problem there.
But the inscriptions were another matter entirely.
Unlike potion-making, where she was still at a novice proficiency and minor mana fluctuations didn't result in outright failure, inscriptions required much more precision. A slight misstep in mana control during inscribing could ruin everything. Intermediate-level inscription demanded delicacy and intricacy—each stroke had to be exact, each line infused with perfectly balanced mana.
