You decided to overwrite the mark.
Overwriting the Soul Brand of a Marking Stone is normally impossible,
but you thought that your immense magical power should make it possible, tough there was no precedent you could rely on.
Preparing didn't take long, you only had to have a Marking Stone brought to and make sure no one would disturb you.
You took a deep breath, brought the stone to your forehead, and activated it.
It was immediately apparent why a second marking normally doesn't take; your soul was rejecting it.
You used your magic power and wrapped it around the new mark, that was about to be pushed out, and slowly moved it back towards your soul, while making sure that it was directly above the first mark.
You felt your soul reject it again, but kept moving the new mark, using a considerable amount of your power.
The magic power in your body was almost depleted by a quarter, when you finally managed to bring the mark into contact with your soul.
The feeling of rejection disappeared almost instantly, followed by an intense feeling of vertigo.
It took you a while to gather yourself again, before you were able to check whether you succeeded.
What you discovered confused you for a moment, before you realized what was young on.
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///ERROR///ATTEMPTING TO RESTORE CORRUPTED DATA///
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It had been a long time since you had been a human, so you didn't immediately recognize what you were seeing.
You saw numbers and words fly across the place where the second Soul Brand had made contact and, after a few seconds,
it finally clicked, and you recognized what you were seeing.
It was code. Something you hadn't even thought about since you came to this world.
You knew that Marking Stones were something created with ancient magical technology, but you hadn't thought too much of it.
Most ancient magical items were primitive and only powereful, due to being made of exceptionally valuable materials.
Everyone, including you, believed Marking Stones to be just as simple, but that had just been proven wrong.
They must have been made by and exceptionally advanced civilization or someone who had been brought to this world like you.
But none of that mattered to you at the moment.
What DID matter was that these Soul Brands had exceptionally complicated magical structures.
And you had just done significant damage to said structure.