Ever since the Shadow Dragon on the Versatile Weapon gained so kind of identity and consciousness, it beca quite active, greedy, and quite a big glutton that will devour anything. It no longer devours weapons, armor, and other equipnt exclusively, it is now able to devour almost anything. Still, even with its glutton behavior and greed, it is clear that the Shadow Dragon still regards my decision whether to perform a Devour action or stop. I am not sure why, but perhaps due to my ownership of the weapon, it also treats as its master.
But I am quite certain that once it reaches a certain point, there will be a chance that this guy will no longer listen to and worse, will devour . It's a bit scary thinking about it, but I have to think about that a bit more later. What I needed to focus on is now Sixth Commandnt.
"Let's hurry and deal with the guy as soon as possible. As long as this debuff remains, we are going to be too vulnerable to fight against the guy!" Dolly raises her staff and point it to the Sixth Commandnt and uses multiple spells that don't need to use any chants to activate... I couldn't catch up on what spells she fired off but most of them are clearly fire and ice spells.
Sigma seems to agree with this and activated her chains as she targets the Sixth Necromancer. The rest also did the sa, even my mother decided to use all her potion arsenal to debuff the guy to the max and maximize our attacks' firepower despite the reduction of our stats. I can even see my HP bar slowly plumting alongside my MP bar.
"HEHEHE, USELESS, USELESS, USELESS! All of the attacks you lot are throwing are all weak and useless!"
Indeed, what the Sixth Commandnt is saying is all true. Our attacks felt like they didn't do anything. It was like the Sixth Commandnt absorbed all of our attacks like a sponge.
"Dammit! You gotta be kidding ! All of my stats are all reduced to the lowest They are now labeled Very Poor!" Hagane felt like the shield in his arms are useless as the remaining stats that are left on his body are being drained.
Based on everyone's look, everyone also did have their stats reduced to the very lowest. I turned to look at my stats and realized that my stats stopped getting reduced. All of them are just stuck to the stat level of [Good]. I am quite sure that I should have my stats reduced just like how it happened to everyone. Even Sigma's absolute defense is already paper-thin defense. One attack and she will die.
Then, sothing hit on while looking at my stats. These aren't my stats, but the stats of the Versatile Weapon. As I stated before, the Versatile Weapon gained consciousness, and the stats that the sword possess is being transferred to , the user and owner of the weapon. And because a weapon cannot be debuffed by sothing like this, except for an [Attack Down] debuff, the debuff everyone is suffering from does not apply to the Versatile Weapon, and since this stat is not mine, it remained, allowing to still have a considerable amount of stats and can decently fight back.
The Sixth Commandnt is still laughing and from the looks of it, the guy still hasn't noticed that I have not fully depleted all of my stats to the lowest. And out of all of us, only can still fight. So to protect everyone since they have only a minuscule amount of health and their defense and attack power are close to sh*t that it is no longer even the stats of a level 0, I pulled out one of the scrolls I have. I only have one of them because it needed so materials that drop rarely, it's not like I will need it in the future in any way and I can just create it again if needed. So why not use it now?
Without a second thought, I tear the scroll into two and a circle appeared and surrounded everyone inside.
Sigma imdiately recognizes the spell of the scroll I just tore into two as it is part of the Holy Knight skill tree, [Aegis Field].
"What are you doing Bladeheart?!"
"Just gonna finish the quest for you guys. Perhaps I can kill the guy before it does sothing else. Just sit back and relax there."
After saying that, I didn't bother to listen to them and imdiately went to go and attack the Sixth Commandnt. I pulled out a bottle of a white liquid and poured it into both my hands and the Versatile Weapon. It's cold but also warm at the sa ti, quite an odd feeling to be honest.
The guy imdiately noticed my approach and started acting smug.
"Ha! I see that you are such a bold guy. To think you would still fight back even at a disadvantage? How foolish."
"..."
"I see that you are determined eh? Then, as a parting gift, I will give you a chance to give a free strike, but even with a free strike, I doubt that would even hurt , with your stats all gone down to the drain, I doubt you can even make a single scratch on my skin."
"One strike, huh? Then that is good. Saves the trouble."
Using a bit of a charge on my leg, I used it to dart forward and use the speed to get close and rise up the Versatile Weapon into the air.
"HUZZAAAAAAHHHH!"
RIPPPPP!
A sound that seems similar to the cloth being ripped resounded. Although that sounded like a cloth being ripped into smaller pieces, it wasn't a cloth but the skin on the Sixth Commandnt's chest.
"Y-YOU?!"
"Too bad, you still allowed to have a final strike. You see, that is the only thing that I needed the most though. Now, let claim my reward before I go."
SPLASH!
The Sixth Commandnt didn't expect to see one of my hands, buried deep inside his chest and currently holding inside of it.
"NOOO! NOOO!"
His chest started to emit lots of smoke and his rotten flesh is burning up. The burnt flesh slls disgusting and so of the burning flesh starts to stick to my hands, but I didn't pull it out just yet. I used it to grab sothing inside and when I found it, a single squeeze on the thing on his chest made the Sixth Commandnt shriek in pain. He attempted to grab my arm that is embedded deep inside his chest but the mont he does, his arm imdiately gets burned.
"AAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHH! WHAT DID YOU PUT IN YOUR ARM! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?!"
"Are you deaf or are you just not paying attention? I already told you, I will be taking my reward."1
Tightening the grip of my hands that are currently embedded deep in the Sixth Commandnt's body, I pulled it out, and with the rotten flesh that seed to burn upon contact with my skin, it beca easy for to pull it out, carrying one more thing that I needed.
"You no longer needed this so I will be taking it," and showed him his beating heart, the item everyone needed, [The Dead Man's Heart].
[The Dead Man's Heart].
Sounds like so kind of treasure that is being hunted by pirates and treasure hunters, no? But that wasn't the case. This thing was not a treasure. More like an ingredient for creating so sort of item that looked like black sludge. It didn't look liquid to when I saw it in the past tiline but I am sure she used it as an ingredient to create that sludge. I even thought of it as a failed item she made but she said it was a success. Only Almira knows what she wanted to do with it, and what she would use it for but at that ti, I was very curious about it.
Now, the sa thing is being asked by Almira to be collected, and although different targets, it is the sa drops she needed. The heart is still beating when it was pulled out, and the owner of the heart is struggling to move. Even though he is an elder lich, he needed the heart to remain functional and now he is desperately reaching for his heart that is currently beating on my hand.
"Give...it back! I needed... it!"
"Perhaps, you need it, yes."
"Yes! I needed it! So give it back!"
"But do I look like I care about you wanting to get it back?"
I swing over my Versatile Weapon to the Sixth Commandnt. The HP of the Sixth Commandnt also started to plumt.
"AAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!"
His screams resounded in the air. His screams are full of pain and anger. But that doesn't matter to anymore. I pulled out the sa bottle I used earlier before I grab the heart of the guy. It was just normal water but it was purified by the Powdered Essence that can be bought in the local alchemist stores, creating a potent, [Holy Water].
"You might be already an Elder Lich, but that doesn't an you are already immune to the holy elent and anything related to the light. If you did get immune, perhaps you are already capable of becoming an overlord, but alas, you don't even qualify. In the end, you are just a higher form of an undead, nothing more nothing less.
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