Chapter 73: Growth Type Sword (1/2)

Ameanum had killed two dozen monsters he had found in the field, but even if his sword seemed to have improved a bit, it still didn't change to Base Rank. After the first five, the improvement seemed to get less and less, and after the first dozen, it was close to nothing.

He tried to find other types of monsters, but the variety wasn't wide here, and it seemed the more of the same kind he killed, the more negligible effect they had on the sword.

He had also noticed at the Goblin Cave back at Picton that they weren't helping his sword at all, but he assumed cause they were relatively low-level monsters.

So he had to change his plan, and the Players that came to investigate were the perfect target.

Since this was a high-level monster field, the Players in the town were around those levels too.

But the 40-50 level characters were simple prey for one as Ameanum, even if his equipment was considered low quality at that level. His Skills were making all the difference needed.

He also noticed that he had access to his Breaking Limit state, and this body was able to handle it way better than his NPC child body.

He continued hunting monsters, but this time he prolonged the fight as long as he could and made them scream as much to draw the attention of his actual victims.

Each time it was either a solo player or at most a party of three, none were ready to face Ameanum.

He had taken a few bamboos and covered himself with mud and leaves to make himself look like a kind of monster as it would draw too much attention of a Player going around killing monsters and Players.

He was attacking them fast enough for them not to take a good look at him, but they were getting some general details of his.

After an hour of hunting, he noticed that his sword was filled with strange runes on its blade. They seemed to be written by the blook of the players he killed.

He also noticed the sword moving on its own as trying to leave his grasp.

This was a good time for him to stop as more parties were coming to find this strange monster who was causing that chaos.

He cleared himself and returned to town.

He investigated his sword and its runes on the way back, and they were like nothing he had seen up until now. They didn't look to be some Enchantment as they didn't follow the shape system or any Programming Enchantment he knew.

As time passed, the sword seemed on becoming more restless to be freed from his grasp, but Ameanum didn't let it.

He stopped just a little outside the town in an opening where there was a lake, and a jetty existed for fishing.

Nobody was currently around, as most Players were in the Bamboo field looking for the one behind the chaotic situation.

Ameanum stapped his sword in the ground to keep it in place without having to hold it as he investigated the rest of the blade, not piercing the earth.

The runes seemed to be getting carved on the blade by the blood as time passed. The carving didn't seem to be continuous, but every few seconds and every time the carving was happening, the sword was moving like a person who got hit.

'Did it grow a consciousness?'[Ameanum]

Ameanum had read many stories about Growth-type equipment, but since there wasn't anyone in the current era of the game, none could be sure what was true and what was not.

One of them said that there were two categories of Growth-type equipment —the ones with active consciousness and the ones without one.

Growth-type equipment was said to be able to grow because they had a consciousness of their own, but some seemed to want to communicate with their user while others didn't. The ones with an active consciousness seemed to be more potent as they could be developed to fit the tactics of their use in how they evolved, while the rest seemed to grow more generically. Bu both were powerful tools no matter the case.

Ameanum wasn't sure what he should do as this story seemed to contain some truth.

If he were at his NPC body, he would try to use some of his mana, but as Ameanum, he had zero mana and no man skills.

Even if he tried to learn mana skills, the System wouldn't allow it.

He didn't want to let anyone else check his sword, not even Pan, so he had to find a solution on his own.

Then an idea came to him, and he closed his eye and raised his hand while he focused.

Over his hand, after a few seconds, a few cracks seemed to appear in the air, and as time passed, they were extending as the piece of air there broke, and a small portal opened.

From it, a single item got out, and Ameanum caught it.

It was Garry's, Spirit Hammer.

He had noticed that the Hammer seemed to recognize him more over the past days but still not considering him as a master, but he could use it more times.

He also seemed to make it teleport to him, but it was straining his mind and body too much, so he just kept it in his ring.

But now he was in his Player body, and he also didn't have to worry about his body getting strained by it as in theory couldn't.

The Spirit Hammer was to strain the summoning of any mortal person's body, but Ameanum wasn't a mortal as he was considered a Spirit from the System.

Of course, he was still a living being and could be affected by most things as expected, but some loopholes existed like that.

But he lost some SP from it but nothing he couldn't handle.

He felt that his Hammer wasn't going to stay too long here, so he had to hurry.

He focused on changing it in a pick hammer and went to help to finish the carvings on the blade.

He held the blade still and in the ground with one hand while using his hammer with the other. As the time progressed, and since he wasn't stopping, the blade seemed to fight with more power and to become more restless, but Ameanum kept it under control for now.

He was over with almost half of the carving as the sword started being more restless than he could handle.