Chapter 26：Honor (1/2)

Mack opened the other box and saw a mask.

The mask was made to cover only the part of the nose and mouth and extended back to the ears covering both of them.

Mack took the mask and put on and felt like he could not breath nor hear anymore.

Then after a few seconds, all came back to normal again.

[This mask has shock absorption, auto repair, a translation device and air purification. It's already pre-configured to your world standards too]

”That will be helpful. I think”

Said Mack, but this time his voice came out a little more rough and robotic.

He noticed too that the sounds around him became louder. He could hear a little better than before.

But he knew the best thing was the translation device. If he met any aliens in the future this mask would be vital to him.

Mack didn't delay too much and picked another box to open.

Inside, he found five belts. One for the waist and four others. Mack guessed the others were for legs or arms since they were smaller.

Mack removed the belts and put them aside for the moment. Belts were nothing much compared to the stuff he saw until now.

He opened the next box and found four daggers inside.

The daggers were very plain, like any other he saw on earth. He guessed the materials were different. But daggers were daggers. Nothing much.

Mack put the daggers close to the belts and left them there. There was one small belt for each dagger. He would put them later.

Opening the next box, Mack saw a sword. A very elegant one. It was plain black and didn't reflect light. Different from the daggers that looked like made from silver.

Mack felt curious and inspected the sword.

(Mage slayer, Legendary Rank)

”Mage slayer?”

”I thought I was going to learn how to manipulate Essence. Why I would need a sword in a spell fight?”

”You know there is a saying on earth.....”

”Don't bring knives to a gunfight.”

[Indeed. But the path of a warlock differs from the mages. It's harder and very specific. You will learn about that in the next trials. And the sword is a very special one too.]

”Why is that?”

[Like the name said. This sword was specifically made to slay mages. How do you think mages fight?]

”I never saw one so I can't say.”

[In a mage fight there are two types of fight. The quick ones where one is caught unguarded. And the fights who last until one of them run-outs of Essence]

[There are two important aspects in a mage fight. The damage output. And their defense. Normally their defense is done using Essence shields or barriers or similar spells]

[And this sword was specially designed to counter that. You remember when I said that everything has Essence?]

”Yes, I remember that, of course. Don't tell me. Does this sword have no Essence? How is that even possible?”

[Wrong. Everything has Essence.]

”Are you playing with me girl?”

[The difference is that the Essence in this sword was made by forging the blood of thousands and thousands of warlocks]

”Those children from the last gate?”