Chapter 753 Sealing Curse

"The curse is very familiar but for some unknown reason, I don't think it was within my power to identify it just yet. It was a bizarre spell and it sure is a very annoying one as well. Compared to the Carnwennan, the Galatine has been consumed by the curse which is why it might look fine outside but once you get a hold of it, it turns out to be useless."

Merlin who was listening on the side seemed curious so he decided to butt into the topic.

"Let me have a good look, perhaps I know this "curse" you guys are talking about."

The Lady of the Lake hands over the Galatine to Merlin and the latter starts to inspect the weapon.

"Humu, humu, it is indeed a complicated spell and it seems to be consuming the weapon as well. However, it's not as complicated as I thought it would be. Lady, it seems you are fooled by its masking effect which would confuse the one who tries to trace and identify the curse itself."

"Really? Does it have a masking effect? How come I am fooled like that? That shouldn't be the case," the Lady of the Lake frowned.

"It's simple, the one who cast the spell knew you would try to check and track the one who did it to this weapon. The spell is specifically designed to fool someone like you and seems to be working properly."

"A spell specifically designed for me..." the Lady of the Lake fell into thought.

"Well, now that we know why it is hard for you to identify it, let's just do this... then this one goes here... this one around here, then this one should be here... this one should disappear and..." Merlin continues his little job, altering multiple layers of spells after spells into the sword.

The Galatine glowed multiple times and some black chains seems to appear every time Merlin modified it, trying to defy his changes but Merlin's technique was superior and he easily suppressed the black chains, keep them at bay and continue to modify the spell. In a few more seconds of altering the spell, Merlin smiled and the sword is now giving a little bit of a different vibe now.

"Alteration is complete, but I failed to track the perpetrator. Before I can fully track him, it seems the one who did it cut off its connections to the curse, leaving no clues behind to know what we should be doing."

"That's a shame, but if you did modify it, then that should be fine," the Lady of the Lake accepted the Galatine once more and inspected the weapon once more.

"Whoever it is, it seems the one responsible for this is pretty slick doing this, and to be able to immediately cut ties with the curse before he was discovered is quite smart on his part too. It's just sad I couldn't catch him immediately.

"No need to blame yourself, Merlin. But I am impressed since I can now identify the curse like any other curse I have seen before."

"My studies in magic do not just involve different things revolving around normal magic, I also study curses and forbidden magic as well. After all, without any knowledge about them, it's pretty much just not possible for me to counter anything related to anything involving those kinds of spells," Merlin is clearly proud to reveal his expertise in both dark magic and forbidden magic as well.

After that, the Lady of the Lake continues to inspect the weapon. She frowned for a while but then she nodded once more. Then, when she is done, she sighed which seems to signify her resignation.

"I admit, the curse seems familiar but with limited clues, I can't confidently say who it was. But I have some suspects but without proper clues, the assumptions I have will be put on hold for now, and keep them to myself for now."

"That should be the best. However, I can also tell that this isn't our last chance to find something similar to this weapon. We will meet another weapon like this soon, if I say so myself," Merlin then turned to make a meaningful glance at me. Quietly saying that he is expecting me to be bringing more weapons like this.

"Alright. Since we are now stuck in one place with the one who made the curse, I think it is time to reforge the weapon," the Lady of the Lake snapped her fingers and the weapon's curse was removed.

When the Lady of the Lake said that, I immediately understood that it is time for us to go away for a while. After all, the Lady of the Lake didn't like doing her repairs on a weapon while someone is watching other than Merlin.

"Let me accompany you, Bladeheart. I think I also have to ask how the little beast is faring as well."

"Well, that is also part of what I am going to talk about with you that I visited. Let's go then."

Merlin waved his staff and when I blinked again, we are now on the ground floor.

"Let's talk outside, that way, the air will freely blow on us while talking about  the little guy."

We went outside, the place where Merlin sealed the remaining power of Cath Palug and reduced him to the state he was in right now.

"So, how is Cath Palug now?" Merlin asked.

"He is fine but he seems to be recovering his powers little by little. He even helped me take back the Galatine which was releasing its flames before."

"Oh? Quite a surprise."

I opened the Summon's Area and pulled out Cath Palug forcefully as he refuses to come out.

"Oy! What are you doing?! Don't forcefully pull me out just to make me face the f*cker, Merlin!" Cath Palug cursed.

"Hey, hey. It seems by the time we have not met for a short time, you became quite a hotheaded little beast, Cath Palug," Merlin waved his staff and two invisible white hands helped me pull Cath Palug out of the summon's area and the little bugger was not able to stop it.

Cath Palug sat on the grass with a frown on his face while groaning, seeing Merlin with his usual smile on his face.

"My, my. It seems Bladeheart has taken care of you with care since you have grown some fat in your body. You were so thin before but now you are as plump as a balloon for some reason."

"Oi, what did you say? I might eat a lot but I didn't get fat even a tiny bit, you little sh*t! Look at this fabulous body of mine, perhaps you are just jealous of my perfect body hmmm?"

"Wow, he is now acting pretty snarky huh? He has grown quite a little bugger now that he is in your care," Merlin laughed as he pats on Cath Palug.

"He acts like a spoiled cat for some reason and despite some of my ways to stop him, he is just troublesome enough for me to even try doing so."

"Well, it's pretty normal for Cath Palug but hey, he wouldn't be this kind of obedient."

"I still value my life. I can easily see my life slipping away if I disobey him once he decided to let his weapon devour me!" Cath Palug growled.

"Devour?" Merlin frowned.

"Hey, show him the weapon. Perhaps he has an idea what it was?" Cath Palug ordered.

I don't know just yet but perhaps he could?

Handing him the weapon, Merlin frowned and his expression changed from a frown to amazement.

[Blood Covered Versatile Weapon]

Weapon Level: 40

[EXP: 10,000/150,000]

Type: Weapon Equipment

Rarity: God Tier

Series: Seven Deadly Sins' Weapon Series

Equippable at Level 0

Equippable By: Versatile

STR: +1500

AGI: +1500

DEX: +1500

END: +1500

INT: +1500

Special Trait: Blood Mark: Every 20 hits, a Blood Mark will be imprinted on the enemy that cannot be cleansed unless the marked enemy will be killed or 5 minutes have passed without attacking that marked enemy. Marked enemies will lose HP based on the damage done when the mark was inflicted and will heal the user's HP by 100 per stack. Blood Mark will stack 20 times.

Embedded Skills:

1. Regeneration Level 1(Max: 10) - Every Basic Attack will recover 1% of your mana. The recovery rate will increase at every level.

2. Sharpness Enhancement Level 5(Max:20) - Basic Attacks will have an additional 500 damage. The damage will increase at every level.

3. Physical Penetration Level 4(Max: 5) - Basic Attacks will have a 40% chance to ignore defense. The probability will increase at every level.

4. Defense Reduction Level 3( Max: 5) - Basic Attacks will have a 30% chance to inflict Defense Reduction debuff on the enemies. The probability will increase at every level.

5. Double Pain Level 1(Max: 10) -Physical Attack Skills will have an additional 100 damage. The damage will increase at every level.

6. Berserk Enhancement Level 6(Max: 10) - Damage dealt during the status "Berserk" is active increases by 60% and decreases the defense harshly to 60%.

7. Mana Conservation Level 10(Max 10) - Magic and Physical skills that need mana to activate will have a 95% mana consumption reduction and cooldown decreases by 1 second for all skills. The effect will increase at every level.

Special Skills

1. Devour - can devour weapons and armor to level up the weapon. It can change its appearance depending on what weapon is previously devoured. Some items and soul artifacts can also be devoured. Devouring the weapon counts as Amalgamating.

2. Change Form - can change to different forms of weapons currently available.

3. Vampiric Lifesteal -normal attacks coming from this weapon can heal the user's HP by 10 every hit. This skill won't activate if it was a skill used, only normal attacks are counted. It can be used in all forms.

4. Skill Extraction: all the devoured weapons with embedded skills on them can be extracted if devoured by the Versatile Weapon. There is no limit to skills that can be extracted and learned but you can only extract one skill from one weapon.

5. Scale of Defense: Every 1000 mana used by the user will generate one stack of Shield that can block 2 physical and magical attacks. Can stack up to 10 stacks.

6. Electric Defense Reduction: Normal attacks can trigger reduced defense to the enemy for 2 seconds with a 1% chance to activate. Can stack up to 5 times.

7. Curse of the Dead: 0.1% chance to cast the debuff [Corrode] to the enemy. It will last for 4 seconds.

8. Mana Regeneration: Normal attacks will increase the mana regeneration to 1% and will stack to 10.

9. Russian Roullete: In gun form, shoot a random bullet that will inflict one debuff from the following list of debuffs [Poison, Paralysis, Sleep, Bleed, Blindness, Skill Seal]

10. Incomplete Rhongomyniad: Fires off a beam of light that inflicts true damage in exchange for half of the HP of the user. (Will change to Rhongomyniad after certain conditions are met)

11. Weapon Attraction: When a weapon from the Seven Deadly Sins series is detected, the Versatile Weapon will resonate and signal the user of the presence of the weapon.

12. Vanagloria: (Pride Exclusive Skill): the user will forcefully transform its weapon into a Shield and Spear form and applies [Taunt] to self. Once attacks are received, the user will receive Invincibility for 3 minutes but cannot move from where they activated the skill and will be forced to remain in position. Once the damage that has been received has been accumulated, it can be used to fire back to the enemy with a 2x multiplier on damage dealt. Can only be used once every 48 hours. (If conditions are met, will transform to The Fallen Star's Pride)

13. Blood Weapon: The weapon will be covered in Blood that will last for 5 minutes. It has no cooldown but it will consume 99% of the user's HP. Double the weapon's current stats and increases the weapon's [Devour] damage.

14. Devouring Hunger(Incomplete): (Gluttony Exclusive skill): Summon the incomplete Devourer of the Abyss that will allow the user to utilize and fight using the Devourer of the Abyss. Has a 35% chance to devour the target whole while fighting a low HP enemy that will result in either a permanent increase of the Versatile Weapon's stats or heal the user's HP. Since it was in an incomplete state, the user can only use this skill 5 times a month. (Once conditions are met, will transform to Hunger of Beelzebub)

15. Mammon's Curse: (Greed's Exclusive Skill): Absorb the enemy's permanent stats and convert them as temporary buffs to the user. The stronger the enemy, the bigger stats can be devoured. Some of the devoured stats will be permanently lost to the enemy and the user will gain the devoured stats permanently. You can gain the devoured stats once every month. The other effect will remain the same. Additionally, every kill will now double the bronze, silver, and gold gained from killing enemies.

[Further special skills are not yet discovered, please let the weapon devour a few weapons with abilities]

Note: A weapon forged by an unknown material from an unknown civilization. Can devour and change form depending on the wielder's will. Said to be a weapon made for the gods that hold tremendous power but it ends up in the hands of the mortal.

Second Note: Because it has devoured and digested a weapon that belonged to the Seven Deadly Sins, the Versatile Weapon can now be considered to be part of the Seven Deadly Sins' weapon series. The sleeping beast of the weapon has now partially awakened.

Third Note: After devouring and imprinting itself from the blood of the Pendragon, the weapon has partially unlocked the sealed powers hiding deep beneath.

Fourth Note: Devouring another weapon that belonged to the Seven Deadly Sins increased its power. The Sleeping Beast is getting developed and it's already recovering the partial amount of its powers.

Fifth Note: Requirements not met. Will reveal it once the requirements are fulfilled.

Restriction: Cannot be dropped, cannot be sold, cannot be traded. Bound to the Owner

Bound: Bladeheart

Durability: Null