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Armin inspects the majestic looking spear carefully he touches the blue pearls embedded on the spear and tried injecting his mana a bit because high tier magic artifacts are fond of mana and will react to it.
But as soon as he injects his unstable mana into the spear's pearls the rust fell away
the runes and inscriptions on it starts to glow and he feels a feeling of calmness like a sea in his mind and his mana veins and qi arteries who got damaged because of the mana burst when he was restrained were instantly healed too.
He was amazed by it and simon looked at him with wide eyes and surprised expression simon asks if he found something in it and did he know about the origin and abilities of this weapon.
Armin tells simon that look this is not an ordinary spear its one of the legendary weapons just like my sword according to the records i know about this the name of this weapon is the spear of aerial a spear with high tier wind control runes and wind abilities as well as wind based attacks it first appearance was during the period of great territorial war
its first owner was not a human but a demon general his details are unknown but he was one of the deadly demons of the demon kingdom's Army but along with the fall of the demon kingdom the general vanished with this weapon never to be seen again rumours says he asked elves for help.
Armin teases him a bit and says wohoho now a newbie got a legendary weapon that easily what a luck simon shyly brushes off his teasings and armin tells him to form a pact with the weapon by dropping his blood drop on its pearl simon takes out a dagger and make a cut on his hand it was so small even a single drop didn't fall armin laughs at him and takes the dagger from him and make a precise cut on his hand he drops the blood on the pearl his consciousness found himself inside the pearl there was a wind spirit inside its rare to see elemental spirit inside a weapon the spirit rejects simon but give him permission to use the wind control runes to survive and simon woke again in the real world he tells everything to armin. he says don't worry when the right time come it will accept you completely the runes on the spear glows accepting their new master.armin says its a good thing you use spear as your weapon from the start or else it will be useless to get a legendary weapon in a dangerous place like this he nods
they bind their horses to a pillar and the group was ready to camp they lights up a campfire it was night already the other two mercenaries
who were guarding carriages outside this whole time joined them as well they dragged the carriages with horses near the group's camp they complains about closing the heavy door from inside alfred refuses to their allegations and ignores them entirely.
While cleaning his blade he remembers the ceremony the day he was gifted the Gravetoll blade one of the legendary weapon and a artifact a locket on his kneck the mana cage .they were gifted to him by his majesty himself for his 39th ranking in the Royal capital power list and reaching the golden rank and becoming the only golden rank adventurer in the entire kingdom.
We see armin and simon were collecting woods for the fire from the abandoned wooden houses then suddenly when armin looked back he found himself alone in the empty street simon was knowhere to be seen he runs deeper shouting his name but instead of response
he just hear his own voice echoes he think of returning to inform alfred about this but when he turns back he sees that simon was standing right in front of him he asks Simon
where he was gone and did we collected enough wood he nods they both reaches the group camping merchants drinking tea mercenaries drinking booze and alfred attaching some ropes with pillars he placed around the camp and attaches them with small bells for safety .because the magical fog is blocking his observation senses.
Everyone sits there for a while near the fire then goes to sleep after some time alfred his sword in hand tells simon and armin to rest assured he will guard everyone during the night then suddenly a inhuman hand with dark claws pierces straight through armin's back armin starts to bleed then he vanishes and reappears right behind the attacker and alfred was standing beside armin too
armin says i already knew you was not the real simon where is he the being in simon's form his mouth stretches inhumanly it laughed a monstrous laugh.
then slammed his hand into the swamp forbidden runes glowed underneath the swamps mud then appears from the ground large statues of k'ruthel and NYXATHRAEL the god of death statue appeared from the ground along with a dark shrine or a tomb like structure revealing itself .
TO BE CONTINUED...