Chapter 152 - Devourer of the Living (2/2)

”Since there are eight soul vessels, which have transformed into swords, aiming at the same enemy…hmm…yeah, I guess that's the optimal name for it.”

”[Soul Blade Octagon]!”

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

As he muttered this name, he then controlled the eight soul blades to attack the stone pole one by one, making sure that they were hitting the same area. Surprisingly, as the next blade hit the same area, a soft roar gradually became louder in volume, with the final blade resounding quite a loud roar at the very end.

After the final blade hit the area where the previous seven blades hit, the final blade dissipated into intangible threads as they made their way back to Aurus in a matter of milliseconds. These intangible threads were a part of his soul, which he retrieved since it would be stupid to not retrieve.

Ding!

A few seconds later, a holographic screen appeared a decent distance away from the long stone pole, allowing him to look at the damage he had dealt with the attack. Of course, he could see the damage he dealt through his system, but due to his current firepower, the numbers that he got from the system was just too high that he decided to ignore it instead.

'Damage dealt: 12.537 points'

”Hmm…” Aurus could not help but try to recall the meaning of these points, recalling the memory of the first time he used this stone pole. Eventually, he was able to recall the meaning of the points, muttering to himself, ”If I could remember correctly, a point of damage on the stone pole is equivalent to a thousand points of damage dealt to an Inanimate. In other words, I was able to deal around 12 thousand points of damage with that trump card. As an offensive trump card, it's pretty average, but since it's a stealth attack that's meant to surprise rather than kill, it's definitely more than enough.”

After that, he tested out the strongest spellsword in the [Nine Realms' Myriad Spellswords] skill, also known as the Sword of Treachery. Thanks to the skill fusing with his Spell Core skill that leaned towards the element of Wind, the speed at which the spellsword flew towards the stone pole was more or less an instant for Inanimates.

Bang!

Not long after, a loud explosion sound resounded throughout the room, with a shockwave shaking the room not long after. While the shockwave was shaking the whole room, Aurus could not help but say, ”Just with this spellsword alone, it has brought about a pretty destructive effect. I wonder how destructive it would be if it was a fusion of spellswords, or better yet, an ultimate move from the skill?”

Ding!

A few seconds later after the spellsword collided with the long stone pole, a holographic screen appeared in front of the stone pole, allowing Aurus to see the damage he dealt. This time though, he could not help but have a greater opinion about the fused skill, thinking that it was very worth it to fuse the two skills together.

'Damage dealt: 53.285 points'

”50 thousand points of damage?” Aurus could not help but mutter. ”That's basically a one hit instant kill on those X-grade Inanimates!”

A few seconds later, a thought popped up in his mind as he asked himself, ”Now…what if I had [Grand Spiritas Deification] activated? Wouldn't that increase the damage I deal from 50 points with this single sword to a few hundred points? What about a fused spellsword? And what about an ultimate move?”

Just as he was itching to test out the combination of [Grand Spiritas Deification] with the spellswords, the rational part of him stopped him from continuing any further as he muttered to himself in realization, ”Ah, right. With the spellsword alone, the whole room shook quite violently. If I had that skill activated alongside the attack, then this room might've probably vanished off from the face of this world for good from the aftereffects alone.”

And with that, he also refrained himself from using an ultimate move from the [Nine Realms' Myriad Spellswords] skill, knowing very well that a greater destructive effect would come about if he tried to use it in this room. Nonetheless, he was quite satisfied with his damage testing, hoping that he would not be restricted in terms of damage once the war between the alliance and Chonk's army starts.

Whoosh!

Since he was finished with the damage testing, he teleported back to the room where Fenrir and Charisa were grinding within the time span of a minute. He appeared in front of the two of them, telling them of his results as they continued to talk for a bit more about their plans, before the two continued on with their grinding.

After talking about their plans, Aurus went towards a corner of the room as usual. This time though, he opened up the Flux Equipment fabrication screen as he decided to dedicate most of this time before the upcoming war to craft Flux Equipment for his alliance members.

Ding!

'Would you like to craft a single piece of equipment or an equipment set?'

Since Aurus thought that the more equipment he crafted, the more alliance members would be able to tank hits, he decided to just craft equipment sets instead of single pieces of equipment. Not long after that, the screen asked him as to what type of equipment he wanted to craft, deciding to just make all of the equipment he crafted in the future to just be that of the Ignition type, adding on the specialties along the way.

Ding!

'What name would you like the equipment set to have? Note that the name of the equipment would affect the additional effects on the crafted equipment set.'

At this point, just as he was about to tell the system that he would like the equipment set to be named 'Killer of the Sapient' once more, he then thought of a greater name that would fit an equipment set made with the purpose of killing Animates.

Going over the name a few times in his head, he then told the system of the new name he had in mind.

”System, I would like to name the equipment set…”

”Devourer of the Living.”