After leaving the tent of mysterious stones, Mu Liang and Nadira went to a store of artifacts considered ancient, things like silver nitrate swords, silver or gold needles, among other ancient items that were used for battles many centuries ago by diverse peoples long before the Technological Age arrived.
Nadira just glanced carelessly, many of the artifacts here were fakes, the true artifacts would mostly be in museums for public access or kept in the imperial treasury.
Mu Liang looked at these artifacts with a look full of nostalgia, these were the most used weapons in the Age of Martial Cultivation, the heavy iron swords and the thin, sharp-edged swords seemed to call for him.
"Welcome to Artefatos Store for 100 Kwanza, everything in the store costs 100 Kwanza, the dear customer may be taking a priceless piece or just taking a small souvenir of your trip, it will all depend on the customer's luck" the seller appeared behind Nadira and Mu Liang, Huang Lian almost cut the seller just by the reflection of her skills.
Huang Lian was very tense, there was no response from anyone she called that was weird, she repeatedly checked the device on her wrist and everything worked perfectly, but there was no response to her messages.
The seller was also a hybrid he had a big body over six feet tall, with dark skin like black olive trees, his eyes were the melancholy type with a soft shade of brown and he had a calm aura despite his appearance. great.
Alessandra-066: This is a hybrid of Zerg Diablo and an Elephant Beast Man, despite the calm around him, he could summon the animal fury of his Beast-men side.
Mu Liang: Fury of the beast-men?
Alessandra-066: There are only two species that have the fury element and the body undergoes transformations due to it. They are the Zerg Diablos, who call the fury in a Berserk manner, and the Beastmen who call the fury Animal Revolt. It consists of the loss of emotional control causing the increase in strength and the transformation of the body, which makes them 10 times stronger than normal.
Mu Liang: If he's a hybrid, then couldn't he call Beserk and Animal Revolt at the same time?
Alessandra-066: And do you think that if this were possible, the dominants of the universe would not be the hybrids species?
Mu Liang: (!!!)
Alessandra-066: There is always one side of genetics that is stronger than the other in hybrids, in the aspect the seller is similar to Zerg Diablos, but their strength comes from their beastmen side. The same thing with you, your appearance is similar to the elves, but your resistance to the energy of chaos comes from your human side. Even if you sometimes get sick with the energy of chaos, it doesn't even compare to the pain that pure elves suffer.
Mu Liang: I see. We cannot have both skills at the same time.
Alessandra-066: It's not possible, of course, there are cases where the abilities of both species complement each other. Like the strong body of the Zerg Diablos and the overwhelming strength of the beastmen, they are different things that complement each other.
Mu Liang paused for a moment thinking about what Gyasi would be like in his berserk form, but he couldn't imagine Gyasi truly angry. Gyasi's image could be a man with a heart full of schemas and a professional flirt, but never a truly fierce person.
Zerg Diablo Soldiers: (...)
Who are you talking about? Our Military General is very fierce, okay?!
"Do you want something?" Nadira pulling the sleeve of Mu Liang a little to get the half-elf's attention.
"Aren't you being too casual with Prince Mu?" Huang Lian said a little sour. She narrowed her dark brown iris eyes, she was already annoyed with the whole situation much less the casualness of the mansion maid. This startled Nadira who pulled away from Mu Liang almost as if she were touching fire.
"No problem, she can't talk to me in a formal way, since we're undercover." Mu Liang tried to appease Huang Lian.
"She can't call the prince by you or by the prince's name either" Huang Lian looked very serious about it.
"I don't care, Huang Lian, we are undercover," Mu Liang said calmly. He understood that his bodyguard was angry at Nadira for letting him escape the safety of the secret mansion, but he was quite content with his escape and the newly acquired treasures.
"Prince Mu, we have to go back now. For a first tour that's enough." Huang Lian finally lost her temper and was frank with her stubborn master.
She knew that dealing with Prince Mu was complicated, his record was not very good, but recently he had been calmer in demeanor and seemed more interested in studying and regaining his health, but it just gave him an opportunity to get back to acting like in the old days.
Mu Liang looked a little surprised at Huang Lian, just to see her tense hands and the suspicious look around. He finally realized how much pressure Huang Lian was facing alone with her weak young master in an unknown capital, and she has to take care of everything on her own as there was no apparent support for them so far.
"Alright, let's buy some things, and let's go," Mu Liang said finally returning to reason and to calm Huang Lian, he only regretted that in his heart the next time he went out so freely would be even more difficult, he was also thinking about how he would be reprimanded by his parents and even by Gyasi.
Nadira moved a little further away from the two of them so as not to become a nuisance, so she stared at the counterfeit weapons for a while until she saw Mu Liang approaching.
"I'm sorry for my subordinate's behavior," Mu Liang said leaning a little in his apology, he placed his left hand over his heart. It was an almost formal apology, but he hadn't leaned in enough for it to be something that would cause discomfort for the black woman in front of him.
"Your subordinate isn't wrong. The prince shouldn't follow strangers around." Nadira said seriously, she looked warmly at the prince.
"They think I can't defend myself, but enemies should be afraid of me," Mu Liang said jokingly, even though he was telling the truth.
Of course, Nadira looked at the weak prince Mu and didn't believe his statement, but she didn't want to make the other one even sour, so she just tried to distract the half-elf.
"What do you want to buy? I will pay you, because of the luck I had previously, I even feel guilty for your bad luck in games "Nadira said stretching her chest out with a little arrogance.
"Oh, that's how it is. So let me look a little longer." Mu Liang agreed, returning to the good mood to see the young gardener acting arrogant, it was cute to see someone acting like that when he had found priceless treasures.
Mu Liang wandered through the section of blade artifacts, from swords to daggers, even spears, tridents, and halberds were on display, all of which looked like items worthy of being shown in museums, but only one caught the prince's attention.
The sword had a bronze dagger wrapped around a white band, the black colored blade seemed to absorb all the light around it, the sense of dignity the sword emitted was something that no artifact in that shop could match in Mu Liang's vision.
Mu Liang approached the sword and had written in a language he was not supposed to know how to read, as it was an ancient language of the Surmas, 1which was one of the Diablo zerg tribes, of course, all this before the union of the various Diablo zerg tribes forming the nation that is now known throughout the galaxy.
"From Chaos, everything is born and everything lives in the Order", the letters stood out because they are as white as milky jade.
The half-elf wanted to get the sword, but it was in a glass box, the shop rule was very simple, he would have to pay 100 Kwanzas to get the item if he was lucky it would be a treasure and if he had to be unlucky it would just be a souvenir of the trip.
"Does the prince want this sword?" Nadira asked next to Mu Liang. The half-elf came to himself when he heard Nadira's voice. He shook his head, confirmed still stunned by that phrase and by knowing how to read the language of Surmas.
"Okay," Nadira replied and went to pay the seller for the sword. Soon Mu Liang was holding the sword in his hand, he felt like an electric current passing through his body, he who had his hand touching the blade ended up cutting himself and the blood ran down the blade and disappeared, but Huang Liang and Nadira did not notice this detail, they were more concerned with putting medicine on Mu Liang's wound.
Alessandra-066: Host a sword aura entered your body.
Mu Liang: Is that bad?
Sword: Are you my master?
Mu Liang and Alessandra-066: (!!!!)
Sword: Are you my master?
Mu Liang was stunned for a moment, he now had another voice in his mind besides Alessandra-066, of course, he was shocked by the fact. A spiritual weapon in a futuristic world like this he had never heard of.
He studied enough to know that everything revolved around Cosmic Energy and Mechas, even the Elves who have hired elemental spirits, they didn't have spiritual weapons.