Chapter 74 - 74)Shade's New Weapon.

"It definitely isn't normal..." Night said as he looked at Shade and Noctis.

To be surrounded by beings at all times, especially beings like Shade and Noctis, one was a Guardian, an entity that was seen as a boss by other players, and he wasn't just any Guardian at that, Shade was the Guardian of the Forest of Silence, while he was in an environment that provided him shade, he could create enough 'shadows' to help him fight against 100's of players. Even individually, Shade was someone who could play around with most rankers. While the other was a creature of unknown origin, as cute as Noctis was, he was from a place that even the Divine feared, he was a creature of Chaos, the same void that birthed the Primordials.

'It isn't in my best interest to be walking around with Noctis, people may think I'm flaunting, besides there's probably no other player with a pet...perhaps if I had a magic ball to summon him, I could just throw it and be like, Noctis I choose you!'

Night once again brought out his inner weeb but unfortunately, a space that could contain Noctis couldn't be created, even if Noctis was once contained in an egg, that egg was long gone and even if Night somehow managed to find it or something with similar properties, there was no guarantee that he could make something that complicated, especially with his luck actively looking to screw him over.

"Anyway, since I managed to cross off one of the conditions, I guess I can take advantage of the fact that I'm in the Norse Kingdom and maybe gather more information? or maybe I should focus on understanding my skills better, even after all these levels, I don't have a skill that could directly damage my opponents," Night muttered to himself.

Up until now, other than Swissman's thrust and Rapid shot which barely passed as skills, Night never had any direct damaging skills, he had been adapting and using his aura to deal the damage, of course, a Grandmaster's biggest weapon was their weapon aura but that didn't mean that they didn't require any other skills. Especially since learning weapon aura in a few months was a dream for many.

Looking to hit two birds with one stone, Night decided to head towards a training arena that the public could use, Norse warriors, focused more on fighting than talking, and most of the time, they earned the respect of each other through fights, so going to the training arena would help him gather more information about them as well as let him test out his skills and possibly allow him to understand them better.

Even though it was a public ground, the area was big, with multiple training dummies and archery targets, the ground was quite lively, people gathered to watch the warrior's practice and show off, it was a form of entertainment for the civilians. Naturally, they caught the attention of many, except this time, it wasn't only the looks of Night and Shade or the mysterious but sinister aura around Noctis, it also had to do with the fact that they were physically smaller, both Shade and Night were quite tall but compared to how buff the people of the Norse Kingdom were, the two of them looked like children even compared to the normal civilians.

"Tch, they're underestimating us..." Night clicked his tongue when he noticed the condescending gaze of the Norse warriors, however, they didn't look for too long and soon shifted their gaze back to those practicing.

"Perhaps, it's a good time to test out the weapon My Lord gifted me.." Shade said as a vein could be seen popping out, he hated people talking down or even looking down on His Lord. Originally, Shade followed Night only due to his connection with Nyx but as he traveled with Night and learned more about him, he couldn't help but feel proud, their bond deepened so much that even if for some reason Night had nothing to do with Nyx anymore, Shade would still follow Night.

"Well, that's a good idea, the Norse may be muscle-heads but it looks like they aren't exactly bad, besides it shouldn't be an issue, even if someone were to covet the weapon, once they realized its cursed, I doubt they'll still want it," Night replied while he analyzed the crowd.

Without hesitating any further, Shade brought out his Trident, a six feet tall weapon stood beside him, it freely levitated next to him, apparently, the 'freely equipping' meant the weapon can be used however the user willed it, of course, there were limitations even for this. Winter's abomination radiated 'pure darkness' which naturally, alerted everyone there, even if they couldn't understand what the weapon was, they could feel the pressure it emitted.

The more Night looked at the weapon, the more he was reminded of the skill Nyx used to save him when he was fighting the reanimated boar.

'Ahh, that takes me back...anyway this should be interesting' he said internally before focusing on Shade who now stood in front of a training dummy with his Trident floating next to him. Night was curious to see how 'darkness' worked, it had confusing properties and this was the perfect opportunity to witness 'pure darkness', perhaps he may be able to learn something, maybe the difference between darkness and pure darkness or maybe the different kinds of darkness?

"Shade..don't overdo it, you might hurt someone so be careful," Night warned him one last time before Shade could test his new weapon.

After listening to Night, Shade nodded and looked towards the dummy, the entire arena was now silent, everyone was curious to see how strong a weapon that could radiate such an aura would be.

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As soon as Shade raised his hand, the Trident shot itself straight into the dummy, it pierced the wind and flew at such a speed that a loud howling sound was heard before it completely destroyed the dummy, leaving behind only a few parts of it which were now breaking down and turning into nothingness due to the pure darkness surrounding it.