When the plot-skips players into the game world Chapter 1191: 498: Lifting the Seal

Chapter 1191: Chapter 498: Lifting the Seal

The incomplete Holy Sword requires another Holy Sword as material —

The first thing Aiwass thought of was Arondight.

After all, the Arondight’s Dagger preserved by the Avalon Royal Family, which served as the key to the Ceremony of Avalon’s Shadow, is no longer needed. Besides its ceremonial and collectible value, it no longer holds any practical significance—surely the Royal Family wouldn’t take a short sword to hack people.

But he quickly abandoned this idea.

Since the other Arondight’s Dagger is now with Hayna.

Even though it was Vivian who placed it upon her, it did accompany Hayna growing up, being her precious personal property and childhood mory, possibly even a part of her soul. If Aiwass just intended to borrow it temporarily, that would be fine, but he needed to break and lt it…

And the only Holy Sword that legally belonged to Aiwass was just one.

That is Mordred’s Holy Sword, Clarent.

Previously, when Aiwass was still Aleister, he used his mirroring ability to disguise himself as Beyard and et the First Red Chancellor, Pomponazzi.

At that ti, Pomponazzi had already ntioned the essence of the Beyard Family.

The Beyard Consortium indeed started from scratch, not so noble descent. But they did not rely on comrcial thods to gain wealth; rather, they used more violent and radical tactics.

Specifically, it was “comrcial war.”

The Beyard Family is a Curse Ritual Magician family that runs concurrently along the Path of Transcendence and the Path of Love, and may even be the inventors of the Curse Ritual Magician profession.

The ritualists of Star Antimony were originally pure ritualists, much like how cursing sorcerers were originally pure cursing sorcerers. Even though rituals and sorcery mixed with so prayer and curses, it doesn’t an they mastered the arts of prayer and curse.

However, the Beyard Family considered rituals too mild, thus gathering stronger forces from around the world. This was one of the few families Aiwass heard of that exhausted all ans to acquire stronger extraordinary power.

In the affiliated cultural circle of the Helasal Empire, the attitude toward extraordinary power is generally extrely cautious yet reverential. On one hand, they are keenly aware of the consequences of path deviation and how high-level transcendents lose their nature and humanity. On the other hand, they view extraordinary power as a form of “noble strength” reserved for the upper echelon, as if attaining transcendence can change one’s fate… Or rather, without extraordinary power, one’s fate cannot be altered.

But the Beyard Family had a different mindset.

They believed extraordinary power is rely a tool and a weapon. If the tool is ineffective, more tools need to be collected.

Disconnected from paths, disregarding risks, indifferent to costs.

The knowledge of curses, deceit, and magic potions was gathered worldwide and infused into the foundational skills of Curse Ritual Magicians over many years. Once they decided to make a move, they relied on the prohibited knowledge of curses, deceit, and magic potions to ascend to the top of the Helasal Empire within just twenty years.

If soone blocked their way, they’d kill them. If they found a flaw, they’d use deceit to magnify it.

Couple it with those bizarre magic potions… able to make one fall in love imdiately, cause emotional chaos leading to embarrassing outbursts, plunge one into an unwakable sleep, grant cold chanical reason, or ensure tireless work without sleep, all the way to preventing curses or poisoning.

One could say… none of the Beyard Consortium’s money is clean.

And precisely because they amassed too much wealth through such ans, they’ve wronged too many people.

That’s why when Vinesse was young, her parents were consecutively murdered by enemies — and because they were not the entirety of the Beyard Family, there were many still bearing the Beyard surna who managed to protect Vinesse and raise her safely.

During the initial phase of primitive accumulation, they even sold curses globally.

The Beyard Family was among those researching curses the deepest worldwide.

Other countries always had people they wanted to curse or sought to avenge or punish soone. Compared to hiring assassins who might be counterattacked or captured, exposing the client, hiring a cursing sorcerer was the safest choice.

The successive deaths in the Avalon Royal Family have proven just how terrifying a curse ability can be when it can’t be stopped or detected—their curse ability far surpassed that of the Noble Red. Within the Beyard Family itself were several witches… witches being a specialized profession focused on curses and magic potions at the Fourth Level.

Back then, Mordred’s biological son turned to the Giants, so his adopted son, the First Generation Moriarty, inherited the title of founder.

In his old age, he, for unknown reasons… perhaps wanting to prove he had no desire to take away his foster father’s honor, or wanting his descendants to avoid repeating ancestral calamity. Or perhaps he felt the Moriarty surna itself symbolized atonent and forgetfulness… In any case, he contacted the Beyard Family to place a forgetting curse upon the “Moriarty Family.”

The curse was such that when they bore the Moriarty surna, any “Moriarty” born who achieved a certain accomplishnt would be forgotten by all current Moriartys. Because of this curse, the Moriarty Family could not allow their biological offspring to inherit their estate and had to adopt promising foster children.

According to Red Chancellor Pomponazzi, the duration of this curse was not permanent.

But rather “until seven generations.”

Seven being the number of authority and strength. The ancestors brought disaster upon the family due to betrayal to the nation and tribe, hence atoning for seven generations…

Whether a dium or collateral—Aiwass also didn’t know why to pledge it—but in any case, Clarent was handed over to the Beyard Family back then.

As a result, before the coming of the seventh generation, the Beyard Group had already crumbled…

Though there are still quite a few people with the surna “Beyard,” none of them are fourth-level transcendents anymore.

After all, their rise was fundantally through curses.

The powerful cursing sorcerers in the family had all perished, signaling the end of prosperous days.

— Afterward, go ask the Night Fiend.

Aiwass thought.

She would probably know where their family treasury is…

At Aiwass’s request, rlin lifted the seal on the Red-Handled Sword.

Its wooden casing burned, the wax casing lted. Soon, it was no longer a coarse large key but transford into a beautiful ruby.

It looked like a short rod, slightly shorter than a rolling pin. Just right for Aiwass to grip with one hand above the other.

The light passing through it revealed strange golden hues.

Each end held so golden dust forming two hourglass-like vortices, with the vortex tops connecting into a line, intersecting in the middle.

Its front was left with only a short tal piece—the handle was roughly over thirty centiters, while the “tal blade” in front asured only about ten centiters, appearing as a prism-shaped spike.

Rather than being a sword, or a short sword, now it seed more like a short spear.

Its attributes subtly changed:

[Handle of Evil Curse]

[Extraordinary Weapon (Deep Purple)]

[Short spear, extrely light, sharp, sturdy, agile, cursed]

[Extraordinary Traits: Holder obtains curse vulnerability LV5. Those attacked by this weapon suffer the sa effect, lasting ten minutes]

[Extraordinary Module – Fla Holy Sword: Pay 33 fire attribute mana to activate the Blaze Blade]

[Extraordinary Module – Light Holy Sword: Pay 33 light attribute mana to activate the Divine Blade]

[Extraordinary Module – Gale Holy Sword: Pay 33 wind attribute mana to activate the Invisible Blade]

[Spell: Holy Sword Skill (Once daily)]

[Requirent: Light 11 Fire 11 Wind 11, or Light 33, or Fire 33, or Wind 33]

[Imdiate, contact, instantly effective]

[Effect: Sanctify this weapon, allowing it to transfigure into Holy Sword·Red Handle Sword (Sacred Weapon – Two-Handed Sword, Heavy, Repels Evil, Sharp, Sturdy, Agile, holder temporarily gains curse vulnerability LV7) until the next sunset, retaining the activated module effects]

[“——Galahad’s Broken Sword ‘Evil Curse’ Handle has initially unlocked its seal. Holding this sword at sunset seems to make one hear so kind of sound.”]