Chapter 93: Spiritual Anchor (1/2)
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You have completed your Quest! The rewards have been automatically deposited and the Quest giver has been notified of your success.
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You have leveled up!
+1 Free Point
+0.1 Strength, Speed, Intelligence
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After evaluation of your performance in a disadvantageous condition, the System offers you an additional attribute point and three thousand Talys.
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Rakna dismissed the window as he stepped into the back garden of the mansion. To give Evelyn a bit more time for herself, he had gone to look for the bodies of the original owners of this place after asking her. He found exactly four mounds on the ground, indicating the locations of where she had buried them.
”Alexa, call the local authorities and explain to them the situation,” Rakna instructed.
[Understood,] she said and established a call from his HL's background processing framework. As she did that, he went back inside the house and leaned against the wall next to the front door, waiting.
A minute later, he saw Evelyn come up from the stairs leading to the basement. She seemed to have recovered nicely based on her relatively serene expression.
”Ready?” He asked and she nodded. ”Then let's go. We'll go to the Pavilion to awaken your magic again and meet up with my friends,” he stated as he opened the door. Just earlier, he had received a message from Allan saying that they were waiting for him there.
”Wait,” she raised her voice timidly and he turned around with an inquisitive look. ”Um, I need to bind myself to you if I want to leave this place…”
”Ah… yes, your status did say that,” he muttered as he remembered her trait. ”That means you're currently bound to this house, huh? Not an object?”
”Yes,” she nodded. ”I used this house as the anchor to sustain myself.”
”How would you bind yourself to me then? Is there a specific method?”
”Well…” She squirmed and joined her hands while looking away. ”It's a bit intimate…”
Rakna scowled at her blushing appearance. 'Seriously?' He deadpanned internally. ”Please don't tell me it's with a kiss or something.”
”Eh?! How did you know?!” She sounded genuinely shocked.
”…can you use this instead?” He inquired while showing her his scarf.
She calmed down a bit and took a look at the object before remembering something, ”This… are your daggers capable of transforming?”
”Close. It's the other way around. My scarf can transform into daggers. So? How is it?”
Evelyn took the scarf that he was handing her and instantly felt the energy coursing through its material. It was nothing like she had ever felt before. ”Incredible… such a masterwork. Not only the seemingly boundless energy but also the craftsmanship. Who made this?”
Rakna snorted. ”My uncle. The old man learned how to make weapons from his adoptive mother and he was without peer from where I come from,” he said, now wondering how high would the old man's proficiency be if he used Appraisal on him.
”Did you learn from him?” The succubus asked in curiosity as she continued to inspect the scarf in admiration.
”Not really. I just heard scraps on the basics, never dwelled on it. Though, it might not be a bad idea to learn a bit more for my Star Make…” He inaudibly droned the last part.
In fact, the weapons he had already made a spell of, Dáinsleif and Neptunia, were both something his uncle had forged at some point. The latter's hobby was to forge mythological weapons with his own designs added to it. That's why it had been so easy for him to picture them when he made the spells; because he already had seen them.
'Maybe adding the concept of forging to them will make them stronger,' he thought then focused back on the matter at hands. ”In any case, is it good enough for you?”
”Yes, definitely!” She affirmed. ”To be honest, I don't think I will ever be able to find a better anchor than this. It's such a good artifact for someone like me for its seemingly endless supply,” she stated enthusiastically.
”Well, at least you don't need a kiss now.”
”Ah… yes,” she whispered, secretly a bit disappointed for reasons that she herself didn't fully understand. She cleared her throat, ”A-anyway, I will now redo my binding.”
She closed her eyes and covered Sonata with her demonic energy. Rakna watched curiously as her body glowed, releasing thread-like strands of energy. They first appeared connected to the walls and floor of the mansion before gathering together and connecting to the scarf instead.
The process took about twenty seconds and when she was done, she opened her eyes with a sigh as she felt her new connection. It was as if her vitality had increased by leaps and bounds by just being close to the scarf. ”It's done. I'm bound,” she smiled and handed the scarf back.
”That easy?” Rakna grabbed it with a raised eyebrow and checked its description.
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Designation: Cloth/Scarf
Name: Azure Sonata
Rarity: Orange
Durability: 100%
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Perks:
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- Intertwined Miniature Eion Systems: The item possesses memory of form and is able to switch from one form to another with an Eion energy influx as the trigger.
Currently available: Scarf, Guandao, Bow, Kusarigama, Twin Daggers.
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- Gale Outbreak (Applied to all forms): A perk synthesized from absorbing Praying Vehemence's parameters. When wielding Sonata in a Blade-Type form, the user will have their agility and swiftness increase by 5% without cost or cooldown.