Chapter 128: Gaining Answers. (1/2)
While standing behind its back and pointing two swords at its neck, Elliot looked at it with his right godly eye of wisdom as he wanted to confirm whether the amount of spirit energy in its body had reached zero or not. The copper statue was too insidious, and that's what Elliot determined when fighting it. Thus, he was on guard and extra cautious.
Who knows? Maybe it was acting dead to fool him and waiting for a chance to sneak attack him!
<Spirit Energy: 0>
<The remnants of the copper statue soul has scattered>
When the information related to the copper statue popped up in his mind and told him that it has died, he finally breathed comfortably. Undoubtedly, there wasn't a single unit of spirit energy in its body. Of course, that meant that its soul had scattered, so had its consciousness.
Now, it was merely a puppet, and it could only execute its master's orders instead of acting willfully.
”Let's salvage the remaining essence of life in my swords.” Elliot pulled back his swords and lowered his hands before his weapons dissolved into specks of gold, which he absorbed inside his body through the pores on his skin.
<+1000 units of the essence of life>
Elliot's eyebrows raised in displeasure as he noticed that he lost 400 units of the essence of life because of fighting it.
It's too bad that its powerful blow had managed to chip away at the sharp edges of his swords each time they clashed, causing the divine swords to use the essence of life to reinforce themselves so that they won't break. Otherwise, he would have gotten the same amount of the units of the essence of life he used to create the swords from reabsorbing them.
”Sigh, I should have focused more on dodging than parrying while I was fighting it,” Elliot complained in his mind, but knowing that nothing is going to come out of crying over spilled milk, he moved on.
Right at that very moment, the statue's head rotated to the back of its neck to look at him. Then, twin emerald rays of light shot out of its eyes, stopping several inches before Elliot's face. The glowing light blended into one and took the form of a tv-like screen. Elliot's curiosity piqued, and words appeared on it.
[Congratulations! You've managed to defeat the copper statue. You've not passed the trial, but you've crushed it. You've earned a high-level reward. Would you like to receive it?]
”Yes, I want to have it.”
The words on the screen changed after he said those words. [Please put your hands on the sigil in the center of my body]
Elliot could see some kind of magical symbol on the center of its chest, and believing that that's the so-called sigil, he raised his hands and placed them on it.
[The spirit engraving process shall now start. Please don't pull back your hands.]
After he read the words on the screen that was floating right before his eyes, warm wisps of some sort of energy came out of the sigil and went into his palms. He could feel the energy gathering in the center of his palms and congealing into some kind of shape.