Chapter 290: Reaction from the shadow sword (2/2)

They could move around as they wanted but they can only access a faint amount of spiritual energy, barely enough to use the spatial rings and such.

After that, Sam left that place and got busy. It has been almost a month since he came back from the island.

He is staying with the Shadow sword all this while as he tried to get a reaction from it. It is high time, he had a breakthrough again as for the beast, he planned to use the shadow mouse as his next beast.

All this time, he kept a shadow mouse as a reserve without using it when he reached the Great realm.

Now, he doesn't have any beast to make a contract with, only options being the ape, zoi termite, and the shadow mouse.

Among them, Shadow mouse is the best choice depending on the abilities he can gain.

Initially, he wanted to keep the shadow mouse aside and decided to explore the planet for beasts which would be suitable for him to make a contract and only use it when he doesn't have any other choice, but he didn't think that the scenario will arise this quickly.

Now, he is stopping from breakthrough, because of the shadow sword.

The curse weapon will give the wielder a chance and that is a mental battle. If Sam broke through, the shadow sword would use the mental strength of a Rank-5 weapon, which he is not confident in facing.

Within the Great realm, he is confident that his mental strength is strongest and he is confident in subduing the shadow sword in its rank-4 state.

Time passed and exactly a month after his return from the island, the shadow sword finally showed some reaction.

The silk that was wrapped on the sword was completely shredded and the whole room was filled with the sword and dark aura. Every object inside the room was completely being slashed and the walls are also being cracked.

Sam is looking at the whole scene as he sat in a chair before the sword and after ten seconds, he placed his hands on the hilt and his arm was cut apart with his muscles completely torn. His hand was bleeding and even his bones are visible.

The room was completely full of the dark creepy aura. Sam suddenly felt an extreme cold and a voice appeared in his mind.

”Human, release me.” The voice is sharp and cold.

Sam didn't reply and his spiritual sense enveloped the sword.

”A Great realm cultivator wants to wield me? Do you think that you are worthy? Human, you are overestimating your worth.”

With those words, Sam's consciousness disappeared from his body and when he opened his eyes, he was in a dark world. Everything he could see was complete darkness.

Within that darkness ahead of him were two eyes that are oozing some black smoke. For some reason, he could still perceive the eyes within the dark.

This is the spirit world of the sword, where they would undergo a battle.

Sam could see his whole 'body' which is made of his consciousness being suppressed, but with a mere thought he resisted and the suppression was gone. The dark eyes looked at Sam deeply and a voice echoed.

”You are not that bad, you can at least perceive me and resist the suppression, but that doesn't mean, you can wield me. I highly doubt you can control me.”

With those words, the darkness around him morphed and dark vine-like things started crawling all over him.

He could feel the energy being devoured slowly but surely, the spirit was surprised because Sam's mental strength was too dense. Unlike other people who metal strength would be like water or even a gas, Sam's strength was like a solid brick.

This was the first time, the spirit has to use this much effort to absorb the mental strength.

Sam observed the movements for a while and he made his move.

His mental strength started morphing itself and took the shape of a sword. The sword was glowing brightly with dense light.

He swung the sword as the dark vines were severed immediately and disintegrated. At that place, there seemed to be a grey patch formed.

When he observed his body though, there is a small portion which was blackened.

He immediately understood. This is like a game. If he was blackened completely, he would lose and he would suffer severe mental damage and if the whole black area was grey out, then he would win and the shadow sword would be his.

Sam held the sword tightly, a black humanoid figure formed in front of him with a black sword in its hand. A sword fight was triggered in a battle to gain the acceptance of a sword.