Chapter 53：Ebony Corundum Stiletto (1/2)

Alex got ready to attack once more. He picked up his sword and started channeling his Qi around his body as per the Smiting Blade technique.

His qi was flowing into the sword at an incredible speed. He had been in a half-dead state when this first happened, so he didn't have to luxury to fully experience what it felt like. But now that he did, it was glorious.

Feeling the Qi slide into the blade with zero resistance was such a cathartic experience. Once the blade was filled to the brim with his Qi, he moved.

The sound the hit made was actually quieter than the last time, yet he could tell the damage was much higher. The penetration power of the sword was much higher with the technique, so it didn't hit enough of the wooden puppet to make much sound.

Alex turned around to look at the damage value.

'4 realms higher?' he was shocked. 'That's much higher than I had expected.' He looked at the puppet which had a deep, almost invisible cut going from its left shoulder to its right waist. It took a few moments for the puppet to heal back.

Now that he was done checking his damage with his 'new' sword, he decided to leave. But just then, he remembered. 'Wait, what about the other sword?'

He decided to check that one as well. He opened his inventory to see the new sword. Once he found it, he brought it out.

BANG

The moment the sword left his inventory, it fell onto the ground with a loud sound. This sound was larger than when he first hit the puppet with his sword.

Thankfully, this was the Training hall, so nobody checked what had just happened.

The sword had been inside the mother cat when he put it into his inventory, so he hadn't seen what the sword looked like and only the hilt. Now that he was looking at the actual sword, he was in awe.

Despite how big the hilt gave the impression of the sword being, the sword was actually tall, but a thin two-sided sword. It looked like it had some sort of marking or words on it at first glance, but looking at it more carefully, it was just the texture of the metal itself.

The blade itself had a brownish color to it with some gold hue to it. The crossguard was quite long for such a thin sword and made purely of silver-like metal. The hilt was wrapped in red leather, probably from some high-level monster.

He focused on the blade a bit, and a panel appeared.

[Ebony Corundum Stiletto

Grade: Earth

]

'It's not giving me any information aside from the grade,' he thought. He checked the steel sword.

[Steel Sword: Refined