Versatile: Alternate World

Chapter 332 - Bladeheart And Lina Vs. The Weapons Of Pride (III)

-King Goliath's blood power is increasing. Defeat him to stop the accumulation of the power.

So that is the power that King Goliath uses? It seems similar to berserk but this seems to accumulate compared to the one-time attack increase and defense decrease in Berserk. I don't even know if the defense decrease also applies but it seems to be gathering all of its power with an amplified amount of power. Once it is released, perhaps it can do a one-hit kill attack. I can't afford that to happen.

As for Lina, she continues to bombard Queen Glass with skills. Now that the Provoke effect is no longer in effect, it's easy for her to land a hit on Queen Glass who is now unprotected and is wide open.

My attacks are almost working. Yes, almost every time I attack, the Shield of Vanagloria is blocking every single skill and basic attack I did. And it sucks that the Instant Death did not proc at all. It would be really great since King Goliath is not immortal like the Leprechaun during the time I fought it along with Dolly.

The only thing that is hitting King Goliath is none other than the skills that can ignore defenses and some of my basic attacks are ignoring the defense so I managed to at least break a bit of its remaining HP even though I can't see it.

But there is no way I will let this guy just do what he needed to do. Then something clicked on my mind... Perhaps, that could actually work.

I backtrack a little bit before I held the sword with my two hands. This could work but there is a possibility that it wouldn't work too. However, this is the only way. Besides, he is almost half to not holding the weapons. Perhaps this could work.

With a tight grip on the handle and turning it into a sword form, I activated the skill.

"[DEVOUR]"

[Warning! You are going to devour a weapon that belonged to the weapon series (Seven Deadly Sins). Two weapons are detected to be part of the series. Devouring it might cause a backlash and damage to the user in real life. Are you sure you will proceed?]

Backlash and damage in real life? That dangerous? Goddang, perhaps this is the consequence of trying to take away the weapons by force. However, I don't care about that. If they think I will just fall over and die, then it is probably mistaken. After all, I almost died back in the past life, they can't faze me over with just that!

"Proceed!"

The black dragon that appears every time I devour a weapon has finally appeared. As always, it is salivating from the sight of the two weapons. Then, the scary thing happened, Not only did one head emerge but two heads emerged. It was like a twin head dragon type.

And after a bit, it didn't wait a bit longer and opened their two mouths, revealing the endless void inside their mouths. King Goliath who was like an immovable shield stood back seeing the two heads of the dragons. Before it can escape, the dragons didn't let King Goliath escape. With a large chomp, the shield and the spear that were previously on King Goliath's hands were eaten. But due to how King Goliath did not let it go, the dragon devoured his arms too.

"GAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

His screams resounded as both of his arms were devoured before he collapsed and lost consciousness. His color seems to have returned to normal.

As for the dragons that are eating the weapons, I saw that the weapons seem to be struggling as the two heads of the black dragon is not yet swallowing them. It keeps on shaking its head and I thought it wouldn't be able to devour but eventually, the dragons ate them and gulped them down.

But the weird thing is that they immediately return to the weapon instead of staying for a bit like the usual. Not only that but my weapon started to shake. Then, I felt a pang of pain in my head. It was painful as hell like I am being bashed by a sledgehammer. It's pretty painful but I can manage to endure it. But it's pretty painful that I didn't get to properly stand up and decided to kneel to at least stop myself from falling down.

-you have been inflicted with mental damage. Due to your resilience, you managed to resist it.

So this is the side effect of letting my weapon eat it. That is not a good thing. This is the first time I heard of mental damage in this game and I never encountered it. Perhaps it was a unique penalty. No wonder it's so painful. It is still throbbing and still troublesome in my head but I can manage just by enduring it.

"Master! Are you alright?" Lina rushes towards me the moment she saw me ready to collapse after taking the mental damage/

"Ah...no worries.

Then, a notification appeared before me.

[Weapon Series detected: The weapons of Pride: Vanagloria and Superbia Due to the acquisition of the weapons, the Versatile Weapon will undergo a hibernation mode. During this time, the Versatile Weapon will not be possible to be used in any means.]

[Assimilation Progress: 0%]

What? I can't use the weapon? I can't wield it? That is one weird penalty. But perhaps that is how things work on the Versatile Weapon when it eats a very important item like the Weapons of Pride? I am not entirely sure but there is only one thing I know. I cannot use the Versatile Weapon for the time being. I have plenty of weapons to use as a replacement but it will never top the quality of the Versatile Weapon at all. But for someone who wielded the Versatile Weapon for a few months, it is showing me that I shouldn't just keep on relying on the Versatile Weapon.

Since I still don't have the inkling idea on how long before the weapon can completely finish its assimilation progress, I might as well use the weapons I crafted. Perhaps I should also master the weapon swap thing too since just relying on the weapon change form of the Versatile Weapon will not do me good if something like this happens again. After all, my playstyle relies on quick swap weapon forms.

"Lina, can you check on the king? I don't know what happened to him but without his arms, I doubt he can do anything that would allow you to fight him. Check up on the queen too. We don't know, perhaps they will still live on even after that. After all, they are just victims and not the main cause of the trouble in this incident."

"Understood, Master."

...

In the aftermath of the battle, it was revealed that the King and Queen managed to avoid the grasp of death and were able to survive. I cured the bleeding hands of the king by dousing him with the potion. However, I don't have any means to regrow his lost limbs. It would be either he uses prosthetics or artificial arms to replace it. As for Queen Glass, she is still alive and it seems the influence that caused both of them to be under control was completely removed from them the moment they were defeated.

It was good since they didn't die. However, it would be a disaster for them to know the trouble of the demons occurred due to how they were controlled by them in the process. They will also be crying after the death of their son.

All in all, it is a good thing they didn't die in the process. Tina would be happy to know that her parents are no longer under the influence of demons. Now that our problem here is solved, the next thing we needed to do is to defeat Lemis. She is the biggest hurdle of this quest and without the Versatile Weapon to help with my usual weapon skills and quick weapon swap, I will be returning to the traditional.

Perhaps I should forge a new weapon in the future too in case some things like this will happen. That way, I am prepared.

...

Inside the inventory of Bladeheart, rests the Versatile Weapon. It is resting and is not moving. However, the slumbering weapon is no longer just a slumbering weapon that has been devouring different kinds of things that Bladeheart allowed for it to devour. Bladeheart might have noticed the growth of the black creature that is devouring the weapons every time he orders for it to [Devour] but what is it really? With the weapons it just devoured, perhaps, something else will happen in the process due to this.

The slumbering weapon is now slowly changing.. It might not be an immediate change but once Bladeheart retrieves the Versatile Weapon back out again, perhaps, this will catch up his attention.