When Ratime sed gravity to try to lift the sword into the air, nothing happened. He tried again, but the result was the same. After a few dozen more attempts, he cre the conclusion that it wouldn't work. The sword didn't want to move even a millimeter.
Suppressing his disappointment, he began to think about how to solve this problem. He knew roughly what it was, as he had experimented with his ability to control various weapons before, and realized that the quality and accuracy of his control of objects depended on their material.
The main catch was that he knew literally nothing about the material of this sword.
All the solutions that came to mind either wouldn't work on this sword or would lower its potential, which Rain didn't want. After a while, a strange idea came to him.
"Wait, the enchantment could work, right? It could strengthen it at the same time."
With these thoughts in mind, Rain looked into his storage ring. There he noticed the wolf girl, who, as usual, was asleep, recovering her strength.
In this world, enchantments were used to enhance weapons. Enchantments could be applied to almost any weapon or equipment, enhancing various properties like sharpness and durability, or granting some attributes like fire or water.
All of Rain's past gear also had enchantment, though it was fairly simple, enhancing only their basic properties.
Usually, when it came to enchanting, people were faced with a difficult choice as each attribute had weaknesses and strengths, making it very difficult to choose very carefully.
However, Rain was completely devoid of this, for he had already decided what he wanted.
Space attribute.
It was extremely rare and had no obvious disadvantages, while its advantages were enormous. If it hadn't been for his meeting with Sives, he didn't know when he would have been able to try it out.
Rain looked once more at the sleeping wolf girl. He didn't want to disturb her, but the deed had to be done.
"Sives."
His voice reached her immediately, making her ears twitch a couple times before she slowly opened her eyes. The sleepy girl looked up at him, as if silently asking why he'd woken her up.
"I need to enchant a weapon. Can you do that?"
She just stared in the direction the voice had come from for a long moment before sighing.
"...I don't think I have the option to withdraw at all. I can do it, but only once, otherwise my recovery will take much longer."
"All right, that's enough."
Replied Rain, while a thought flashed through his mind.
'I wonder if that's really true, or if she's just afraid I'll turn her into an enchanted weapons factory?'
Shaking his head to ward off such thoughts, he called out to her.
"If you agree, then come out here, I need that enchantment right now."
Sives, however, did not move from her position.
"Are you sure you want me to come out? As far as I can see, we're at the academy now."
Only now did Rain realize that he was still standing in the semi-darkness of the stairwell between floors.
He was so engrossed in his new sword that he almost forgot that he was now on the grounds of the academy, which was home to far more monsters in human form than he could have imagined. And the last thing he wanted was for anyone to find out about the living Rift Master in his hands.
"You're right."
Recognizing this, Rain moved the Unknown Sword into the storage ring where it appeared next to Sives. At that moment, the wolf girl added.
"Don't peek at me enchanting it, okay? It's an ancient... and secret ritual of my race, not meant for others to know."
He blinked a couple of times, trying to realize what was happening.
"She's... licking it?"
He couldn't take his eyes off this scene of a girl doing something unusual with his sword.
This went on for a couple more minutes before the wolf girl was finally satisfied with the state of the sword and called out to Rain.
"You can have it."
Rain hesitated, but asked.
"It's definitely an ancient technique?"
"Argh, I told you not to look!"
Sives turned away in embarrassment, growling angrily into space. But even then she seemed to still feel his gaze on her.
"Don't look at me like that, that was the quickest way to..."
She spoke in a low voice and it was unclear who she was explaining it to, herself or him.
"I had to use something as a conduit for my powers... of course it could have been blood, but..."
"I understand."
Rain finished her intermittent explanation. Then he summoned the sword back and took it in his hands.
At first glance, the sword did not change in any way, but if you looked closely, you could detect faintly noticeable space distortions surrounding it.
Rain opened the item's status window.
[Unknown Sword]
[Type: Weapon]
[Attribute: Space(supreme)]
[Indestructible &%# ?? ##&? ##&&#%#...]
The system also confirmed that his sword had a new attribute.
Rain did the same manipulation with the sword again, trying to lift it into the air using only gravity.
Even in the semi-darkness, a wide smile could be seen on the young man's face as the sword rose into the air.
The idea was simple, if you can't control one material, you just need to wrap it in another. Of course, it was difficult to imagine that this material could be space itself.
But now that Rain was not acting on the sword itself, but on the thin film of space distortion around it, he managed to move it. And to his surprise, it was no more difficult to control than a steel sword, perhaps even easier.
The sword obediently levitated in front of him, responding to all his commands.
"The space attribute is even better than I thought it would be."
After praising it, he put his sword away, looking at the time on his communicator ring.
It seemed like a lot of time had passed while he was getting his quest rewards and figuring out how to solve the sword problem, but in fact even more time had passed and Rain realized he was running late...
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