1327 Struggle Part 1 (2/2)

He threw a piece of dragon horn into it, which was from a fallen dragon. None of the other dragon horns had been able to fuse with the dagger to be. Generally speaking, dragon horns were often used to make the sharpest part of the blades. This time, the piece of dragon horn was used to make the dagger's hilt.

Thirty-six fragments merged and shaped into the form of a dagger. Dark silver 12-dimensional metal filled the cracks. It was as if they were embedded into the blade. It was like the dagger had been constructed of bone and mended with metal after it was broken. The dagger looked like a piece of artwork instead of a weapon. The 12-dimensional metal was thin as hair, making it look as if the dagger would fall apart at any given moment.

The key to the dagger was the dragon horn. Dragon horns of fallen dragons were extremely difficult to acquire. No one knew dragons had faiths too. The dragon gods were rather peculiar beings among the gods, similar to the strongest priests to be found among humans.

They might have embraced the faith of the dragons, yet no divine persona was coalesced. When dragons betrayed their gods, they would show signs of falling.

Fallen dragons were very rare. A fallen dragon might not be powerful, but their rarity surpassed even the dragon gods among dragons. Dragon horns of fallen dragon gods were the only pure parts of their bodies. The horns would not fall apart. Salvation required understanding and forgiveness from the dragon gods. The horns served as the key.

None of that held any meaning to Saleen. The most important thing to him was to fuse the Heretic God's bone fragment with the dragon horn. The dragon horn was able to resist being corroded by the bone fragments. It was even able to isolate the fragments' effects from the wielder.

One piece of dragon horn was made into four parts including the hilt of the dagger, scabbard, mask for the assassin, and bracers. All of it was meant to protect Bain's soul from being tainted by the bone fragments.

Even with all that done, Saleen did not feel safe enough. Bain's assassin's skills needed all those things. If he were to be injured, he might not be able to contain his emotions. As such, he wrapped thunder dragon hide at the hilt.

The piece of hide was crafted specifically for Bain. It was narrow and several feet long. It was thinner than paper and wrapped on the dagger according to assassin's methods. The hide had innate lightning magic patterns. Saleen re-crafted them in a way that would have shocked him with weak electrical charge if he were to lose emotional control.

When electrical charges were not strong enough to cripple or kill, they were good for saving people. For example, tourmaline was capable of generating electricity, which was useful for stimulating people at the brink of death and making their heart beat again.

The lightning magic patterns on the hide had somewhat greater strength, making it capable of dispelling evil powers to a certain extent.

Bain looked at the dagger as he held it in his hand. He found its hilt to be of good fit with his hand. He performed many assassination moves with it and still felt no discomfort from the hilt.

Bain, at the level of his training, was able to kill people with just a twig. If he were to deal with truly powerful targets, weapons would still be a necessity. The tool needed to be something very lethal to both the enemy and the assassin wielding it.

It was not surprising for the dagger to be a good fit. Saleen was a mage. It only one look at Bain's hand for him to calculate all the needed details down to the bone. He was even able to calculate what kind of actions those hands would make. However, he was not familiar with Bain's skills.

Bain made some peculiar moves, yet the dagger still stuck to his hand. He was thoroughly impressed and said, ”Good stuff indeed, your Highness. Would you mind naming the weapon?”

There were no anomalies with the weapon. It was best suited for assassins. Other than looking rather pretty, it had little to no weaknesses.

”It shall be called Broken World.” Saleen knew of the dagger's attributes. One hit was all it would take to tear the soul of its target to pieces.

”What would I need to be cautious of?” Bain inquired before leaving.

Saleen took out a star figure and said, ”I'm not done. This is a Figure of Fate, which can block a magic attack up to level 10 once in your stead. I'm only armed with level 10 astrology, so I'm unable to craft a powerful Figure of Fate for you. Still, take this. It will allow you to mask your identity. You could disguise yourself as a believer of Fycro and stain the figure with some power of faith. You won't have to pay anything for a good disguise. Even Fycro will not easily be aware.”

Bain was elated.

”I've done such ample preparations for you, specifically to keep you from being distracted,” Saleen said. ”Lex went to Holy Rock City. If anything happens, I will bring the Floating City there personally to assist her. Just stay hidden at Fycro's side. Even if I end up dead, don't come back unless the job is finished. This matter is very important to Lex too.”

”Understood.” Bain let Saleen push the figure into his body using astrology before disappearing.

Saleen saw flickers of peculiar energies as Bain vanished from the Magical Element Tower. He assembled his followers after sending Bain off. He needed to head to Highland City and see what was going on there. He was not taking the Floating City with him that time. He brought a patchwork teleportation portal with him, allowing him to retreat in a heartbeat.

Nailisi and the Winged Skull came with him. Sika remained to man the Floating City.

The three of them flew at extremely high speeds. Highland City was thousands of miles away from Nature City, yet it only took a day for them to cover the distance. Saleen saw the evil aura shooting high into the skies from several hundreds of miles away.

The black mist was everywhere in Highland City. It exceeded 16 miles and was expanding at a slow rate. However, that was not to say it was a good thing. If there were to be no one else to stop it, the evil black mist would grow in size and eventually taken over Myers Mainland.

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