Alec felt a lot of things toward the late Shim Lester. Mostly negative feelings like hate and disgust. But the more he delved into the runes of the Eyes of the Mystic, the more something like gratitude started surfacing.
If Shim had done one good thing with his life, it was that he had unearthed that spell formation and carried it to Alec.
The way it used runes was almost revolutionary, at least compared to what Alec was used to. The only thing that came close to it was the spell formation engraved in the floor of the Bjerion ruin, the Hall of Achievements.
It made Alec tempted to carve the spell formation into his eyes, just like Shim had done. But he managed to stay firm and hold off on that for now.
Instead, he used what he could from the formation to complete his Scan 2, finally dubbing it Mystic Scan.
