Percy traced the lines from the circles. Aetherite lines. Good for conducting spirit energy towards another circle.
This place was a generating house that leads to circles scattered around the building. In the walls or perhaps just the structure of how the building was made.
If the stones were specially made to channel earth magic, then you could build the temple like a circle itself. That was what he suspected happened with the city of Dema.
The whole city was one giant circle.
Therefore, this was the Spellcore of the circle, providing a controlled measure of mana to all the circles that worked in the place.
There was a powerhouse in the Fortress of Dema that performed a function similar to this, but he hadn't found it yet.
While he tried to understand the differences between the two circles, the one here and the one in Dema, he kept glancing back at Ramona's writhing body on the ground.
