Chapter 337: Enter The Shadow Army (1/2)
Reestions, Sila tried to teach the puppy how to cultivate qi He absorbed the qi in its body using Worlds Crossing Bridge and gradually returned it, reducing the power of the qi and fine-tuning it so that it would be easy to circulate He repeated this process for hours There were no signs of progress at first since all the puppy did was play around, but it eventually followed his instructions
Cultivation was theqi In the puppy's case, it was a Squire-Rank vessel filled with Lord-Rank qi, so Sila redirected its qi to flow into his body, stabilizing it for the owner, then returned it to the puppy He also taught it how to circulate qi to disperse the excess power Before long, the puppy's body adapted to its own qi and finally found it bearable
Sila was shocked to discover that a qi-type monster was able to learn its skills this quickly even when it played around a lot
Noouldn't be injured even if Sila removed his hands froh to properly control its powerful qi, so he also trans Qi to help it and left it in the dojo
As for the puppy's name, Sila was clueless He requested Julia to come up with a name in his place She accepted the task and told him that the pet's information would be available immediately when the name was set
Now that the puppy's oal would be to acquire the Dichotomous Crucifix Sword However, he soon stumbled into a dead end
Zarnak was clueless about its exact whereabouts
“Didn't you say you can sense it? Why are you saying you can't find it now?” Sila frowned
“Knowing that you don't know anything about the topic, I will overlook your insult, my uneducated ine its power Do you kno a Demonic Armament is born?”
It took no time for Sila to shake his head He only knew that Deears used by players and ins inally ite negative energy that consumed us and turned us into Demonic Armaments For example, an item that was taken away from its master a thousand times, a weapon that drank the blood of a million beasts, or a powerfulattachs, the higher the chance they will beco to life in order to fulfil their last wish”
“What is your wish, then?”
Zarnak shook its head “That's the irony Once a Deet its past life, including the things it was attached to Well, for soet their past, but understood their goals with their hearts, such as the Las were still fresh since it was born only recently However, as ti its last desire In the end, we live in order to be used and taken away, ending up in the same cycle”
“What will happen if the wish is fulfilled?”
“You probably think that ill cease to exist, don't you? But no, you're wrong As I told you, once we becaer matter Success or failure is not i and a curse that forces us to stay like this forever”
Sila listened and pondered Even if soh to recall their past memories at a later point of time, let's say a hundred years later, it would still be sad Their ht have already been fulfilled long ago
“I brought this topic up because it's related to the Dichotomous Crucifix Sword's abilities I bet you've never heard of Igsia, the Goddess of Weapons and Craftsmanshi+p”
There was even no need for him to try to remember Sila shook his head He never bothered with Monster Soul's history It was his first ti the name The only Goddess he knew about was Cynthia, the Goddess of Humanity
“If you intend to stick with the path of swords, I recosia is the y at using all kinds of weapons and also the best blacksraved on important anvils Even some spells of the fire and earth element mention her name and borrow her power If your weapon mastery skills or craftse to her in front of her altar, they will be evolved to transcendent rank”
“Goddesses aren't h-level ones?”
“Goddesses are existences above monsters They don't directly interfere orldly matters but will share their poith the races that worshi+p the and the rabbit races worshi+p the Goddess of the Moon, so their stats grow stronger when they are under ht”
“What about the slime race? Which Goddess do they worshi+p?” Sila asked out of curiosity
“Not every race worshi+ps a Goddess The ones that do arehistory Compared to other races, the slio Currently, there are only a few races left that still worshi+p Goddesses”
“Your explanation is getting rather long How do all those things you said relate to the Dichotoed Zarnak had explained to hiin of Demonic Armaments and the Goddesses' roles, but he still failed to understand why he had to hear all of it
“Because the Dichotomous Crucifix Sword used to be several swords rather than just one, all o, back in the era when monsters were still in direct contact with Goddesses, Lady Igsia spent several hundred years teaching the arts ofher A few hundred years later, the arts spread to other races, causing even the races that didn't worshi+p her to be able to use weapons”
“So, its importance is the fact that it's a sword personally ht?”
“What she made that contributed to the sasn't just one sword, but seven of the the du the ti, she created seven swords, referring to theave theood will However, the tragedy happened after that”
“What tragedy?”
“The saht to seize territories Having learned how to use weapons, soant and started a ood terainst each other in order to get their hands on all seven swords hters in the hands of various wielders was to fight aainst their wills In the end, with their extreative emotions turned and co intent scattered around the battlefield When the bloodbath ended, only the sword itself stood alone atop a pile of corpses that reached the sky Even the sword's last wielder became a dead man”
“Ah, I see, so they eapons le Demonic Armament”
“That was the reason why I told you that you couldn't possibly iine the power of the sword It's a sword, but holds the power of seven swords Each of thesia in order to ie With therade is used to define the tier of a weapon that is above grade If you let rade weapons, however, I would say this sword is an S-grade arade Compared to it, I'm just a mediocre item”