Chapter 21 - Ehits Descent (1/2)

Amidst the chaos that was created due to the abruptness of Rio's extreme action, a certain old pope who had stood up in a hurry because he'd seen one of Apostle harming himself acted oddly. His eyes suddenly became vacant and glowed with golden light. But, it was so subtle that anyone else did not see it. Moreover, their attention was fixed on Rio and his mangled, bloodied arm.

Though Hajime had seen this extreme action once, he was still squeamish when he looked at it. But, he was quickly being swept away by the fl.u.s.tered spectators. He saw them with a dumbfounded look. He had expected they would react badly from this, but he never thought it would be this bad. Because of his perplexities, he forgot to calm everyone.

Meanwhile, Rio's reaction was delayed because he felt a strong presence suddenly appeared in this place. No, the correct description to what he'd sensed was this strong presence had merged with someone. And it was Ishtar.

Despite the others did not realize the strange occurrence in Ishtar, Rio did not miss it. But, Rio quickly calmed down the flurried people under the stage, ”Please calm down! This is under control. If you do not calm down, this presentation cannot continue.”

Rio's voice spread through the field for he had enhanced his voice with mana. Everyone stopped at their spots and turned at Rio. Before someone could open their mouth and make this more complicated, Rio continued on.

”Don't worry. I said this is under control, and I mean my words. Though my hand is like this, I have blunted the pain using magic. This is important for the next presentation. So, please return back to your seat.”

Though they seemed skeptical of Rio's claim, they followed his words. They returned to their seats and tightly looked at the stage. Ishtar who had been possessed by Ehit followed Rio's order without any fuss. Ehit did not announce their presence yet, and it made Rio curious about the entity's plan.

While putting up his guard towards Ishtar/Ehit, Rio turned at Hajime and nodded shortly. Hajime returned back Rio's nod with his own, albeit shaky one. Hajime then raised his gun and aimed at Rio's bloodied, mangled arm and pulled the trigger.

As an aside, Rio had forced his Auto-Regeneration to stop healing his mangled hand for this. If he did not stop it, his hand would heal in the blink of an eye due to his absurd mana.

A white colored orb was launched from the gun's muzzle and it hit Rio's wounded arm. The next moment, Rio's hand was covered by a white aura. There were loud exclaims and amazed shouts when the spectators saw Rio's arm healed. After a few seconds, Rio's hand and forearm returned back to its healthy state.

Rio turned at the dumbfounded spectators and said, ”As you can see, this one has high-level healing spell formula engraved inside the cartridge. Of course, it cannot recover a lost limb, but it is still a spell similar to High Heal that can reattach a limb as long as the cut part isn't destroyed or eaten by some monsters. With this, the presentation ended and the next presentation about the detailed specs of this artifact will be presented by Hajime.”

Hajime, who had recovered from seeing the gore, nodded and returned his attention to the spectators. He began the presentation. What Hajime explained was more or less shortened into these points.

1) The artifact used ambient mana in the air to fuel it, but the user's mana is needed to trigger the artifact.

2) Even a regular person with level 1 and 10 Magic can use the artifact but only ten times. Each trigger consumed mana equal to 1 Magic.

3) The artifact only useful against monsters and demons because of the magic formula engraved in the gun's body. If someone tries to use it to harm human or demi-human, the formula will self destruct.

4) There is a self-destruct function in both gun and cartridge. The only harmless and healing effect will not trigger the self-destruct mechanism. And by self-destruct mechanism, it means in the magic formula. The gun and cartridge themselves are only minerals shaped into a gun and a cartridge.

5) The gun and cartridge production is like the status plate, meaning there is the production type artifact that will create them automatically.