volume 1 - Chapter 30 (1/2)
Chapter 30 – Heroic Deck
[Summon the Holy Sword? There are many swords in Vaunte deem as Holy Swords. The Wind Sword, ‘Nordrasis’. The ‘Sword of the Endless Sky’ could be considered another one, and even an Amber Sword simply named ‘Ultimate’… Not that I owned any of these back then.]
[Is this a type of magic? I know the priest has a low level Light Magic Spell called ‘Spell of Holy Swords’, but that’s just a series of attacking chants. It has nothing to do with summoning, and the magic vocabulary in the game is exceedingly strict and cannot be changed randomly.]
[Leaving this question aside, the players in the game have no extreme side effects from using magic, like splitting headaches. At most one will feel exhausted, so…]
As he finished contemplating, he put his mind to it and accepted the command, ‘Summon the Holy Sword’. There were no downsides to this transaction, and he also treated this as a last ditch effort.
Brendel slowed down slightly from his thinking and the Demonic Tree launched an attack with its snake-like vine whips, but he quickly lowered his body and swung his sword up. An arc of silver flash cut off the two vine whips that gave off a rotting smell, and they turned into ashes in the air.
He quickly pushed himself off with one hand from the ground, and accelerated to the Demonic Tree’s area. When he wanted to continue with his next course of action, the words in his retinas changed.
“The Path of Warriors, unlocked.”
“Heroic Deck, Chapter 2, Holy Sword of the Knight.”
“Due to the Character’s first time in unlocking the ‘Cards of Fate’, it shall be entered into the system.”
The ghostly words appeared and quickly disappeared.
“Holy Sword, symbol of the Knight’s Dedication and the Sword of Purity.”
“Effect: Pay 6 Earth Element Points (EP) from the Element Pool, and summon the Holy Sword into play. All conditions have been met, Character, please display your card. Point your thumb to the center of the Sigil of Fate, and establish your Mana Link with your index finger and thumb to light up the Holy Sword.”
Brendel immediately that found he was distracted by the amount of words that popped up and almost could not see the Demonic Tree. His hands stopped moving for a moment, and the attacks from the Demonic Tree’s vine made him fall back. He grumbled in his mind, but also knew the chance for him to succeed in his attack was slim even if the words did not distract him.
He sighed involuntarily. He quickly glanced at Freya, who was struggling as hard as possible to climb towards the boulder. She was not far away from her goal, but the bouncing ponytail made Brendel pause for a while.
His concentration changed to the other side without any further issues, and he discovered that the young Demonic Trees at below were a few steps behind. It seemed that she would be fine. Romaine who was somewhere below him, however, was in a terrible state. She was panting heavily and unable to climb any higher.
The Demonic Tree and Brendel had crossed blows, and neither gained any advantages. The Demonic Tree realized that the human before him was not powerful, but it was afraid of the Elven Sword. Brendel knew what it was thinking as well.
He gripped his sword again, but the words in his retinas showed a final message:
‘Display the card?’
Brendel looked blankly ahead, but his gamer mind quickly worked and he thought of the card in his belongings. And as if to answer his thoughts, he instantly found it.
[So this sigil is called the ‘Holy Sigil of Fate’, but I don’t recall hearing about it before.] He was a little puzzled, but his thumb had already been placed on it.
“Heroic Deck, Chapter 2, Holy Sword of the Knight, successfully targeted.”
A blinding pillar of light shot out from the card.
The ripples from the magic struck into every living creature’s minds like a sharp knife. Not only did the mature Demonic Tree bellowed, even Freya and Romaine were rooted to they were and they looked at Brendel.
They saw him holding the card up high in his hand, which kept firing pulses of light until it disappeared.
“Brendel, t-the card in your hand disappeared!” Romaine shouted anxiously. Her eyes were astonis.h.i.+ngly good as she was a good fifty meters away.
But he did not hear anything what she said, as he could only look blankly at the words in his retinas:
“Holy Sword, symbol of the Knight’s Dedication and the Sword of Purity.”
“When this card is in play, pay 1 Earth EP to attack your enemies, or pay 1 Earth EP to dismiss your sickness, curses or darkness-related status.”
“The Character is required to pay 2 Earth EP and 2 Spiritual Points (SP) to maintain the ‘Holy Sword’ every ten minutes.”
“The effect of the Holy Sword affects 1000 meters.”
[Hah?]
[What kind of evil witchcraft is this?]