CH.507 Weapons with Skills
<span style="font-weight:400">“Okay. If you are sure. Just remember, I don’t think I’ll be able to undo this.” I reminded Unika.
<span style="font-weight:400">She was going to have Fer and Rum rank up. But that wasn’t the reason I was worried. I was worried because of the Rank-Up-Magic she wanted to use.
<span style="font-weight:400">The list of avable Rank-Up-Magics had grown longer.
<span style="font-weight:400">I had the five previous ones, Barian''s Force, Limited Barian’s Force, Numeron Force, Skip Force and Cipher Ascension.
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<span style="font-weight:400">But I now had two new ones, Rank-Up-Magic Argent Chaos Force and Rank-Up-Magic Admiration of the Thousands. And for some reason, Unika wanted to use Admiration of the Thousands tobine both Fer and Rum into a single monster.
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<span style="font-weight:400">So let’s talk about those two Rank-Ups for a second.
<span style="font-weight:400">Argent Chaos Force is pretty straight forward. Sure it has the ‘Rank 5 or higher’ limit, which means rank C or higher, but that isn’t a big deal. It also favors ‘cosmic’ or space attributed evolutions. No clue why, but it does.
<span style="font-weight:400">Admiration of the Thousands on the other hand … yeah, I don’t think I need to tell you it is a beast of its own.
<span style="font-weight:400">Admiration of the Thousands takes multiple monsters of the same rank andbines them into one Ranked-Up monster. And it can cause some crazy strong monsters to appear.
<span style="font-weight:400">In this case, the result is a twin cerberus fox. Cerberus fox, an S-rank, is not amon monster at all, in fact, it is more than rare. A cerberus is already rare to see, but a cerberus fox is like the shiny version of that. Stupidly rare.
<span style="font-weight:400">The lesser variant, which is A-rank, is a bit moremon, but both are still rare as anything.
<span style="font-weight:400">Twin cerberus fox, as you may have guessed, is the B-rank variant of it. It isn’t nearly as rare as the other two, but still. I know Unika will Rank-Up theplete Ferrum into the higher ranks, it is just a matter of time.
<span style="font-weight:400">And since we are making one by using two iron foxes, the cerberus fox we make will have iron fur. It isn’t actually iron, but it is tougher than your average fur of other C-rank fox monsters.
<span style="font-weight:400">After Unika confirmed that she was sure, I handed her the spell and let her activate it. I’m not risking a Polymerization change of loyalty thing with this.
<span style="font-weight:400">After she activated the spell, the two foxes began to glow, before they began to whirl together. They formed what almost looked like a phantom gxy, before it burst out in specks of light, and from the light, the new monster appeared.
<span style="font-weight:400">The twin cerberus fox came out as expected, for everything except one little thing. … okay, two things. And they might be a bit more sizable than ‘little’.
<span style="font-weight:400">The new fox had two glowing orbs orbiting it. And I instantly knew what those orbs were.
<span style="font-weight:400">Ovey units. Somehow, Rank-Up-Magic Admiration of the Thousands had turned two monsters into a literal Xyz monster with ovey units.
<span style="font-weight:400">This didn’t happen with any of my tests, even when I was using Admiration of the Thousands, so I had no clue it could happen.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... Ferrum?” Unika carefully asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">The fox let out some sounds as a response, but I still can’t understand beast, so I’ll have to wait until Unika trantes for me.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... okay.” Unika responded to the fox. She then turned to me. “It worked. But it is strange. … The fox we are seeing isn’t Fer or Rum. It is kind of abination, but also not.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I then watched as one of the ovey units entered Ferrum’s body. I was a bit worried that he was about to activate some crazy effect, but nothing seemed to happen.
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, that was until Unika chatted more with the fox and then tranted to me.
<span style="font-weight:400">“These orbs… they are Fer and Rum.” She said, and I expected as much. Ovey units are made of the monster materials, after all. “When they enter the main body, they can influence it. But otherwise, this new personality is in control.” As Unika told me that, I saw the ovey unit leaving Ferrum’s body, and returning to its orbit.
<span style="font-weight:400">… Yeah. So that is a thing now. How on earth did that not happen with the Factory tests?
<span style="font-weight:400">… Maybe because the monsters I used therecked personality? Individuality?
<span style="font-weight:400">They were just tokens, basically. I didn’t bother making them anything more, because I assumed they’d keep the same personality as the OG had when they Ranked-Up.
<span style="font-weight:400">And that is the case in every other case than Admiration of the Thousands. But with that, I assumed it would make a fused identity like Polymerization does. But apparently not. It makes a new personality that is somewhat like the originals, while keeping the originals as ovey units.
<span style="font-weight:400">Definitely something interesting and something that I really like knowing.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“... Brian.” Wilma asked me, as I was heading to my office. “... I had this idea, but … I’m not sure you’ll like it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You can always ask. Besides, I go through with bad ideas all the time.” I told her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I know, but … this is a bit more bad. I … I wanted to make a new weapon. … one that carries the weapon skill with it.” Wilma exined.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Okay? That doesn’t sound so bad.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... Yes, but … it cannot be done.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“But you have an idea, or you wouldn’t be sharing.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... It cannot be done by any means we know of.” Wilma said. “... but there might be a way. It is just … questionable.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Stop beating around the bush and just tell me.” I tried to push for her idea.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I think by enchanting in Demonic, it is possible to make a weapon that carries a weapon skill!” Wilma quickly blurted.
<span style="font-weight:400">… in Demonic? As in the demonguage? … I mean, yeah, that should be possible. You can enchant in the spiritnguage, so why not Demonic?
<span style="font-weight:400">And considering that demons can just hand out skills, it might be possible.
<span style="font-weight:400">Okay, I think I need to specify a thing here. Demons don’t actually just hand out skills, it is a bit moreplicated than that. They actually mess with the miasma inside your body and force it to take the form of a skill.
<span style="font-weight:400">I’ve tried to understand the process, but it is more than a littleplicated and my Miasma Control isn’t nearly high enough level where I can really figure out how demons do that.
<span style="font-weight:400">But yeah. If we do a miasma based enchant in Demonic, yeah. It should work. I think.
<span style="font-weight:400">I mean, weapons that give Strength are possible, weapons that auto-cast spells are simple-ish. So why not a weapon that just gives you the skill? It should be possible.
<span style="font-weight:400">I mean, something like my Red-Eyes ck Dragon Sword can technically help you with swordsmanship. It can’t give you any skills, but it is a living sword, so it can kind of guide you in how you should wield it.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“... Yeah. I think we can look into that. I’ll need to ask Hope if she knows demons that know how to enchant, then I’ll need to make a contract with one or two. Then … well, then we will need a test weapon that they can enchant.” I quickly listed off what would need to be done so that we can test this theory.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Can’t your demon monsters do it instead?” Wilma asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“No, not really. They can manipte miasma, but they don’t know the System well enough to where they can influence it. My card installs can give skills, but they cannot make a weapon that gives skills.” I reminded her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. … so I’ll make the weapon, and you’ll acquire the appropriate demon.” Wilma siad.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t rush it. At least let me talk to Hope first. She might know if this is even theoretically possible. Better not use too many resources into this if the demons just can’t do so.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... fine.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“A quick question, but why are you so interested in this?” I asked Wilma. Like sure I liked the idea, but she seems to really be pushing it.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I … I had this idea. Got it from those ck frame monsters with the circling lights.” Wilma began, and I just looked at her with a ‘go on’ look. … at least that is what I think I looked like.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... so, in theory, if I could make a few of these skill granting weapons, maybe I could have them circle me, like those orbs circle the monsters, and then I could just grab the weapon I need at that time. And since the weapon has the skill, I wouldn’t need to worry about having the skill for all the different weapons.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... interesting idea. But are you sure? You don’t need to do that.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I want to. … It’s just … I’m good with a shield. I can hit things with a hammer. … but what else? And with the world going insane, I feel like I should do something. I was given the System Support for a reason, but then I do nothing with it. I just craft weapons. Meanwhile, the rest of you are out there actually saving the world. … I just think I need to do a bit more.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... alright. I won’t say not to feel that way, but don’t me yourself. Not everyone is a fighter. But if this will make you feel more confident, let’s do it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">And, I mean, it isn’t like I don’t want to see if this is actually possible.
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<span style="font-weight:400">I summoned Hope and asked her about this, but she didn’t know. She didn’t know how to enchant, so she couldn’t answer.
<span style="font-weight:400">So I asked her to find me a demon that would know, and then I’d do a demon summoning, and Hope would hopefully make sure I get the demon I need.
<span style="font-weight:400">I gave her a day, and a miasma stone, to find me a demon I need for this.
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<span style="font-weight:400">I summoned her the next day, and she informed me that she found a sabbath that was willing to help me, but that it would likely cost a lot of miasma stones.
<span style="font-weight:400">But I promised Wilma I’d try, so I made another demon summoning circle, no, I don’t have a permanent one made. I then let Hope return to the demon world, so she can inform the demon that I’m about to summon a demon. That way the demon I want will hopefully respond immediately, and no other demon will take the call.
<span style="font-weight:400">The demon that responded to my call was an incubus turned sabbath. An incubus, for those that don’t know, is just the male version of a subus.
<span style="font-weight:400">He seemed to be on the older side, so he must have gotten skilled enough to be considered a sabbath, when his looks didn’t cut it as an incubus.
<span style="font-weight:400">The sabbath told me that he didn’t know if what I wanted was actually possible, as no demon, at least no demon he knows, has ever attempted anything like that, but he was willing to try it out, at the cost of one miasma stone per summoning, and an extra miasma stone for every enchanted item.
<span style="font-weight:400">Which honestly is less than I expected considering Hope said he’d be expensive. But I think Hope just doesn’t understand prices.
<span style="font-weight:400">Sadly, as a sabbath, he didn’t have ess to too many weapon skills, as those fall under war demons, but he could still help us make the test pieces, so I agreed to his price, and made a contract.
<span style="font-weight:400">With that, we have a demon. Now I need to tell Wilma what weapon skill enchants he thinks he can make. Wilma will make the weapon, and then we’ll hope it will work.