Chapter 29: Bone Broadsword (1/2)

Does this devil self of mine not have any talent in undead magic? No way! Shouldn’t devils and undead have an inseparable relationship? According to the legends, this world’s undead was created by the devils!

Forget it, now isn’t the time to think about undead magic. That dark alchemy on the other hand…

I used the skeleton I summoned as materials for the alchemical process and began channeling my mana into them. A rounded, black mirror began to form as I channeled my mana. As I slowly lowered the mirror onto the bones, the mirror ripped into the pale white bones like a paper shredder, grinding it into dust with every move forward.

A few seconds later, the skeleton and mana mirror was completely gone, instead a bone broadsword took its place.

The broadsword had the same shape as Roscar’s broadsword, but notably differed in both material and weight. One was made of bone while the other, iron. I wonder which would fare better…

Under the confused and worshipful eyes of my subordinates, I scooped up the bone broadsword lying on the floor. It was lighter than Roscar’s broadsword. Giving it a couple test swings, I estimated that it was about 10kg. In order to create this sword, I expended five darkness arrows worth of mana.

Next I tested the sharpness of the bone sword by stabbing it into the hardened ground. It wasn’t a satisfactory result; it took considerable effort to do so which meant it wasn’t too sharp.

“Big 1, One-eye, I need both of you to hold onto this bone club from each end. I’m going to test out the new weapon’s strength.”

With the bone club firmly secured, I raised the bone sword up to my shoulders and lowered my hips as I brought the sword down in a decisive slash.

The next second, the two bone weaponry collided into each other. I didn’t look too favorably on the bone sword being able to cut through the club, but surprisingly, it managed to do so albeit with some difficulty.

“Ooooh!!”

The devils gasped in wonderment as they looked at the “divine” bone weapon in my hands.

“Master, Master! What’s that? It’s amazing!”

No.3 was the first to speak, and with him as the lead, the others began clamoring as well.Soon, the situation spiraled out of control as the excitement overtook them.

“Master! This lordship wants a bone like this as well!”

“Master, can I have that bone please!”

“Master Master…”

Oh boy, that escalated quickly. Thank god, these guys still have some self-control left and know not to snatch it from me.

“It’s a broadsword, because it’s made from bone, you guys can call it a bone broadsword.”

Whether it was summoning a skeleton or this dark alchemy, they were all the outermost pages of the grimoire and could only be considered lower ranking spells. While the summoned skeleton wasn’t too good, this dark alchemy was pretty formidable. If I had this with me as I went into that battle at the steps, the outcome wouldn’t have been so razor thin.

A large imp who wielded this bone broadsword could’ve easily cut down a head imp!

However, mana was an issue. Bones were found everywhere but my mana was limited. In order to prevent any in-fighting over these swords, I decided to give them out according to seniority.

“Creating a bone broadsword requires a substantial amount of mana so I can’t mass produce it. I’ll give it out according to who joined me first.”

“The first one is me!” No.3 had followed me since the beginning and naturally had no issue with this.

Seeing that I was set on this method, the others didn’t object as well and went along with it.

“Then this lordship is second!”

One-eye swatted Nine-finger’s hand down and assertively said: “I’m third, you’re fourth.”

As for No.5…*cough**cough*

There’s two goals for now: creating more bone weapons and leaving this undead region. Truth be told, I suspect that we are in Gehenna based on the stories Roscar had told me.

For example, he said that hell was split into three regions: Purgatory, Gehenna and Abaddon. Purgatory was a fiery world so the blood sea shouldn’t be a part of Purgatory. Gehenna sounded like the North Pole, but that was merely my own impression of it. Gehenna was the world of the undead and was crawling with the them. This description fit our current location, which meant that we might just be in Gehenna after all. As for Abaddon…Abaddon was too mysterious…even Roscar didn’t know anything about it.