Travis continued at his task while everyone battled against the newcomers Logan and Bosan. As the conflicts raged, Travis could feel a sense of helplessness of being unable to help repelling the new threat. Nevertheless, he kept his focus centered on the runic lock before him.

While studying the characters upon the dial design, Travis utilized one of his manadial’s applications he had recently been able to figure out. The program behaved like a spectrometer of sorts; in this case, it projected a small aurora as a representation of one’s own aura while during a mana flow. Upon the interface was an animated wheel he gently stroked his left hand’s thumb over up and down, dictating the resonating frequency which in turn made the aurora spike or slow down. The idea, his argument, was to match the correct frequency manifested by the simulated aura that the characters corresponded with. His hope was that if he could isolate the proper wavelengths he could then use to them select the proper sequence each glyph is coded in. The concept to him appeared figuratively simple and efficient enough; if anything, he was carefully choosing the right handles in picking a physical lock.
 
Eventually, he found the proper behavioral states while cross-checking the visualized wavelengths and the likenesses of the characters within the runic lock. The task was nothing overly difficult however it did prove demanding in determining the correct frequencies. Travis took a movement to ease back and wipe the accumulating moisture from his forehead but with the sound of fighting still prevailing behind him, he continued with next portion of the lock. 

Upon examining the next sequence, Travis quickly concluded that figuring out the characters and their matching sequence would take up more time than his team was currently allotted if he were to utilize more traditional methods. Given the eight symbolic characters on the lock, Travis with more time to spare, could have analyzed each of the glyphs and created the likely candidate sequence to use. The problem was that it the assumed the caster of the lock was using a predictable pattern and not a random configuration; an unlikely concatenation no one would leave to chance.

Travis however had a different and more efficient approach to this conundrum. Casting an advanced light projection spell, he quickly reproduced the runic lock and projected into the air. Each simulated section of scripting was now his to manipulate as he pulled the entire structure apart, separating each part into different portions based on function and response. The dissected rune now gave Travis a detailed perspective of its inner workings. It was then he found a newer series of scripts and circuits leading to each of the characters that had been visually masked before. Each line connected to what Travis determined to be a kind of receptor node that passively responded to whatever source it was geared towards; in this case to an aura wavelength. The Untalent deduced that if he probed each node without actually selecting its character, he could then potentially root out the sequence he needed.

Wasting no time, he began emitting through the aura he projected in his hand and brought it close to the runic lock. While the actual rune wouldn’t visually respond towards this gesture, the simulated copy that mimicked it however did. Bringing his aura over each character node he eventually caught a line giving off a faint glow that none of the other lines emitted. With a bit of hesitation, Travis tapped into the glyph with his forefinger to select is as the first part of the sequence. The real rune naturally reacted with the character lighting up while the simulation manifested a green coloration throughout its own script before connecting with the locking script whose designated pillar design separated into two halves.

“Bingo.” Travis smiled, now confident that he finally found the solution to their problem.

With relative ease, he pinpointed each node in-part of the established sequence and tapped into the aligned character, further undoing the rune’s security measures. It wasn’t long until Nemo’s and Raiya’s voices resonated nearby, indicating that they had dispatched their adversary. This was soon followed by an unexpected gunshot the momentarily distracted Travis, unaware that it was Zoey’s piece that had discharged, finishing off the remainder of the two party crashers, finally ending their threat and collapsing the realm spell that had enacted, returning everyone back to real time.

Just as Nemo queried upon his progress did Travis then select the last remaining character, “I think I…”

With the last glyph now in-place, the whole rune seemed to flip its hidden elements over to the front, showcasing each node that was selected breaking the security pillars within the scrips. With each now measure broken the rune itself then unlocked, representing this through its design dividing in half as its original purplish hue turned to a bright confirming green. Travis rose from his position with a somewhat smug expression, feeling not only feeling triumphant in unlocking the rune but also overcoming Siedon’s handiwork. The thought then quickly hit Travis that he didn’t personally know Paul Siedon and only knew him by name, erasing any sense of rivaling superiority he had beamed while losing himself to the brief moment.

“Yes, we’re in” said Travis has he recomposed himself while opening up their hijacked container.