volume 1 - Chapter 29 (1/2)

TL Edit: Ok. I didn’t want to do this but I’m going to issue a final warning. I have said many times I don’t want spoilers, but someone had repeatedly ignored them and posted information in the comments that I cannot unsee.

I have not read ahead while the people who had asked me for the raws or got it from novelupdates, did so at their own pleasure. That’s fine with me, but don’t expect me to feel pleased when you talk about the future chapters.

People have asked why I don’t post the raw link, and it’s precisely because I’m worried that spoilers might appear. I’m at most half a chapter ahead of the readers to ensure there are no translation issues, so I don’t know exactly what happens in Fortress Riedon or whatever place after that.

The only few chapters that I took a look at are in in the 100s and 200s chapters, to ensure that the amber sword doesn’t suddenly spiral down into a trashy novel or something.

I don’t deliberately stall my translations, and I’m up there with the cliffhangers with you guys who can’t read the raws.

Finally, it’s going to be the weekends pretty soon. I’ll definitely translate the next chapter at the very least.

Chapter 29 – Tumen’s Legacy.

Romaine and Freya extinguished the campfire and followed Brendel who started running. They guessed that Brendel’s sudden change in his behavior was due to that piercing light, and Freya did not understand how it was created.

Romaine had an idea as to what happened back then as she saw the soul gem in his hands.

[Ah. That’s right, he gave me a ring. I really like the spiderweb design on it.]

It was rare in this world to create a design using spiderwebs, but she liked things that were uncommon.

[I wonder if it has the same magic like the one on Brendel’s hand.] She knew that his ring was special and was able to command the wind to slay his foes.

This was a side of Brendel that she had never seen before, and she looked curiously at his back. She felt that the things he did was full of mysteries and secrets.

“Brendel, what happened?” In contrast to Romaine’s carefree att.i.tude of ‘I just need to follow Brendel.’, Freya was more serious. She thought that her responsibility was to take some of Brendel’s burdens off.

“Nothing much of importance. But we need to leave this area immediately.” Brendel suppressed his uneasiness and replied. He pulled out the Elven sword and it glimmered against the barren boulders. He really did not know how to explain to Romaine and Freya about the ‘Mana Absorbtion’ effect.

To put in words, it was like an osmosis process where a higher rating magical item took energy away from a lower rating magical item. But it was incredibly rare for an artifact below 40 OZ to do something like this. It was impossible to explain these gaming world’s jargon or scientic words to Freya and Romaine.

Freya looked worriedly at him, but did not inquire any further.

Brendel observed the valley. There did not seem to be any movement below but he felt insecure in his heart. He requested Freya to wear the armor, while Romaine was to prepare the rope.

Freya was already wearing normal clothes on her, so she took out the ‘Half Plate of the Wind Empress’ and started to wear it over her body. The only drawback was that she had no prior training in using heavy armor, so there was no hope in her wearing it quickly.

On the other hand, Romaine was anxious and a little excited. She wanted to help her out but was afraid of Freya scolding her. Even though they were friends, Freya’s anger was not something to take lightly and she knew that she might actually create more trouble for her.

Brendel felt he could wait for them a little while. What he was more worried about the creatures being attracted from within the valley from the powerful mana ripple.

He could not help but raise the card in his hand. He was shocked that the Gerald’s most important possession was not the ‘Thorn of Light’, but this card instead. A magical artifact that could possibly above 40 OZ, just exactly how amazing was this thing?

In this long chaotic era, the Human and Elven wizards were unable to solve the problem of adding Grade 2 power into magical equipments. It was only until the ‘Year of the Twilight Moon’ (Chaos Era: Year 471), which was when a genius was able to finally solve it.

This genius was Tumen, the Elementalist Emperor.

He invented the technique of implanting Holy Sigils into items, which solved the problem of imbuing them with Grade 2 power. From then onwards, creating magical items that over 40 OZ and above became a reality.

He did not think the card was some form of sealed Holy Sigil. But he had never seen such a complicated form of Holy Sigil before. It was not the Elven’s Wind Empress Holy Sigil, neither the Kirrlutz’s Fire G.o.d Holy Sigil, nor the Irendar’s Water King Holy Sigil.

He stared at the complicated Sigil and felt a headache coming on. Tumen’s techniques that were handed down underwent many evolution. Logically, the current Holy Sigils in this era could never be as complicated as this.

[Ancient artifact?]

As he was trying to figure things out, the card in his suddenly floated without warning. It fired a pillar of light in the gray sky, and a few moments later, another pillar of light shot out from the southeast mountains in response.

[Resonance!?]

Brendel was unable to react at all as he watched the event unfold in a stupor. He immediately wanted to find a table and flip it, because the mana ripple had turned into a mana tidal wave. He figured that even the Madara’s undead army miles away were alarmed. A resonance meant that this was a ‘Combination Item’.

The worst part was how the other item that resonated was within the Zevail’s mountain pathway.