Chapter 264 (1/2)
「……」
On the sandy beach called the Invasion Coast in the Zadark Kingdom’s Western region, Sancreed was holding a single sword at the ready.
Having a green gem fitted into it, it was the Wind Sword. It was the sword that Sancreed received from the God of Wind Wyrm.
Sancreed focused his mind on the Wind Sword, and started to flow magical power into it.
「……O Wind!」
At the same time he shouted that, Sancreed’s magical power dwelled in the Wind Sword.
The power of intense wind enveloped the Wind Sword, and the gem emitted a faint light.
Swinging that several times, Sancreed then cancelled the Wind Magic Sword.
Up until now, it was fine. When using the Wind Magic Sword, he had no complaints whatsoever with the Wind Sword.
「O Light!」
What he tried to invoke next was the Light Magic Sword.
However, far from accepting the magical power that Sancreed was flowing into it, the Wind Sword was repelling it.
The regurgitated magical power assailed Sancreed, and together with a bit of pain, he felt a faint amount of lethargy.
「……Tsk.」
As expected, he wouldn’t drop a sword, but annoyed by that faint discomfort, Sancreed thrust the Wind Sword into the sandy beach.
The Wind Sword was this kind of sword. As a sword for Magic Sword-use, it possessed efficiency to the point that there was nothing greater than it, but it wouldn’t absolutely wouldn’t accept anything other than a Wind Attribute Magic Sword. On the contrary, it would end up attacking him like this with anything else. It was too much of a problem for him to entrust his life to it.
After Sancreed sheathed the Wind Sword into its scabbard, Transfer Light sparkled in a place a bit away from him.
After that gathered and popped, what appeared there was the figures of the Demon King Army’s Northern General Altejio, and then his wife, Margaret the Blacksmith.
Margaret, who was carrying something that looked like a sword wrapped in cloth, expressed a smile when she found Sancreed and ran over to him.
「Sancreed-sama, I’ve brought you a sword!」
Since Sancreed’s magical power was too strong, average swords would break immediately. It was there that Sancreed commissioned Margaret to manufacture a sword for his own personal use, and Margaret also continued to pour extraordinary passion into the research and prototypes for it. It seems that that sword was finally completed.
Running over to him, Margaret opened up the cloth and displayed the contents while looking up at Sancreed with a whole faced smile.
What was there was a sword with a simple design. The transparent gem that was fitted into it fit in perfectly with Sancreed’s hand.
「Hou……」
「It is the Hard Sword Raizanok. I used the imitation Holy Sword that Yklsaas-san brought, and fragments of the enemy called the Holy Armor Soldier. Its sharpness isn’t all that great though……」
「Is that so.」
Sancreed nodded, then told Margaret to move away a bit.
After confirming that Margaret hurriedly went away, Sancreed lightly swung about the Hard Sword Raizanok.
There wasn’t much of a great difference between it and the Wind Sword that he swung earlier in terms of weight, and the same went for its size when comparing them at a glance.
「O Wind.」
Gathering the power of wind and wrapping the Hard Sword Raizanok’s sword blade with it, Sancreed made a small nod.
Indeed, it was stable. It didn’t have a dangerousness to it like the swords up until now.
Going “in that case”, Sancreed poured his magical power in a bit stronger.
However, the Hard Sword Raizanok accepted this as well and strengthened its response to it.
Seeing that, Altejio raised a voice of admiration, and Sancreed expressed a smile.
If it’s with this, then maybe──Feeling that way, Sancreed poured even more magical power into the Hard Sword Raizanok. Every time he did, Raizanok would strengthen its response……and then, suddenly, a high-pitched *kiin* sound started to play.
「……Mu.」
Thinking “so this is its limit”, Sancreed was about to stop pouring magical power.
However, he immediately noticed that it wasn’t at its limit. It was because the sword hanging on Sancreed’s waist──the Wind Sword was playing the same sound as Raizanok.
「This is……?」
When he was about to touch the Wind Sword with the other hand that wasn’t clutching the Hard Sword Raizanok, right before his hand could touch it, the Wind Sword turned into a gust of wind and vanished.
「Eh……!?」
Margaret unconsciously raised her voice, but Altejio and Sancreed were also surprised.
Immediately after the Wind Sword vanished, a green wind started to envelope Raizanok’s sword blade.
It was sucked into Raizanok’s transparent gem……and dyed it green.
Before long, when they thought that the gem would be dyed completely green, it once again returned to being transparent.
Like that, what remained in Sancreed’s hand, was only the Hard Sword Raizanok that was the same as before.
「What was that just now……?」
Margaret was unable to believe what had just happened right before her eyes.
If they were to express only the simple facts, the Wind Sword disappeared. That was all.
However, it wasn’t that simple.
It looked as if the Wind Sword was absorbed into Raizanok.
A sword being absorbed into a sword was impossible, and Margaret didn’t remember creating such a revolting sword either.
that being said, the Wind Sword was a special sword. From what she had heard, it was a sword that the God of Wind Wyrm had awarded to Sancreed. In other words, it wasn’t simply a sword, it was a sacred treasure. In that case, it probably wasn’t that mysterious even if something were to happen.
……But, even so, she didn’t know why it took the form of the Wind Sword being absorbed into Raizanok. Moreover, its appearance seemed like it didn’t change at all from how it was at the start.
「……」
Sancreed silently looked down at Raizanok in his hand for a while, but before long, he held it at the ready and started to concentrate.