Dark Magus Returns

The black blood continued to pour out of Raze's body, creating a pool underneath him. If a regular person had this much blood under them, one would think they would have bled out by now, but Raze was still on the ground, allowing everything to flow out of him.

The others could only stare at what was happening as it took place. They continued to watch in silence until he finally stood up from the ground. His footsteps only rippled slightly in his own blood since part of it had dried up.

That was how long he had been going through the process, but when he stood up, Raze felt a great strength in his stomach that flowed through his entire body. All of his senses were heightened, including the smell in the room.

Clenching his fist, just like all of the other times before, he could put even more strength into it, something that he wasn't even sure was possible.

'This is what it feels like to be a middle stage warrior?' Raze thought. 'This feeling of strength, of being a new person in a new body. It's quite addicting, I can see why Pagna warriors start to crave the growth and power of their body.'

'It's quite similar to how I felt every time I discovered something new in the world of magic. I have to be careful that this sense of feeling and power isn't something I strive for other than my revenge… I need power to complete my revenge; I am not getting my revenge to gain power.'

Going down to the ground, Raze picked up the special sword off the ground. He had just dropped it before going into his strange state. When picking it up, the blood fell back onto the ground from the sword.

It didn't look natural, as if the sword was trying to clean itself.

'If it's an enchanted weapon with Light magic, then it will be difficult for me to see its effects, but if it's just a magical weapon in the first place, I can see what this thing can do.'

Raze brushed his other hand against the sword, activating his magic, and as usual, he could now see exactly what the new weapon could do.

[Mythical Grade Item]

[One-Handed Lux Sword]

Looking at the sword itself, it had the traits of weapons used in a kingdom. The sword guard was fairly thicker compared to others. The blade itself had quite a wide width before it went up towards the point at the end.

On top of that, the blade itself looked like it was double-edged. It had an olden historic feeling with the craftsmanship that could be seen on it. With a single look, one could tell it wasn't a sword that belonged to Pagna like that of the Ghost blade he had.

[While holding onto this weapon, it synergizes with the user's other healing capabilities and items by 200 percent.]

[While holding onto this weapon, it synergizes with Light Magic-based powers, increasing their effect by 200 percent.]

'The Blazer that I am wearing has healing capabilities and also has a defensive barrier; it's been enchanted with Light magic. So if I use this weapon, they will increase in power as well.'

[While holding the weapon, all Dark powers will be weakened.]

'There isn't a percentage amount, as with some things in magic, things aren't always certain. But it's expected; this sword has such strong Light magical powers that it will affect my powers. Of all things, it will affect my strongest magic power, Dark Magic.'

'It seems that the best way to still switch between weapons as I use them. Since using the Ghost blade increases the output of my Demonic Qi and I can use Dark Magic skills to perform the Dark Magic arts.'

However, it didn't stop there; there was one more special trait of the sword to be seen.

[Upon death, the user will be given a second chance.]

'A second chance, that is vague, and I wonder if it can be activated more than once after it's been used. I'm already on my second chance… but I'm hoping the skill of this sword will never have to take place.'

Thinking back to his fight with Niang, Raze was thinking a couple of things. The healing powers were incredibly strong. It was either this second chance effect of the sword that was constantly being activated by Niang.

Or that Niang already had incredible healing capabilities for another reason, and the sword was boosting it. There was a third option Raze was considering as well.

That perhaps the sword had gotten weaker. During their fight, he had absorbed the energy while the sword was inside of Niang, and some of that power he possibly might have taken inside him.

'The Light magic attribute is something that will be incredibly difficult for me to obtain, and even if I do obtain it, it will be even harder for me to raise its affinity due to me having a Dark Core, but the effects of the Mythical sword are too much to not use; I shall keep it.'

Raze swung his hand, and the sword magically disappeared in front of the others' eyes. Now they could see that he was finally done; the group began to move in closer.

They hesitated as they saw his dried black blood on the ground; the only one that didn't care too much was Anna, as she went to look at the dead body of Niang on the ground.

"Ah, I messed up." Anna said, scratching her head. "I don't think there's a single person left alive in the Lethal Bite Clan that can answer our query. We won't have a clue whether or not they are behind this whole thing, of these deaths occurring around the whole city."

"Well, there is one way to know, if we have defeated them, then won't it mean the deaths around the city will now stop?" Charlotte answered. "We can just stay away from Alter for a while and say we're still investigating the matter."

Raze only cared about the mission in the first place because he wanted to go to Alter to obtain more information. He felt like they would harbor something about the Grand Magus.

However, if that didn't work, at least he would be led to an area filled with powerful weapons. What he didn't expect was to finally reach the middle stage and get a new weapon for himself.

"Congratulations, by the way," Bargo said with a smile, holding onto his injured shoulder. "It seems that you have successfully become a middle stage warrior, and based on your performance, quite the strong one as well!"

Anna and Charlotte were pretty clueless when it came to these things; they knew that the stages were a level of strength, but would never be able to fully understand the level of accomplishment Raze had just achieved without being a warrior themselves.

"Thank you," Raze answered.

"About your mission, there might be some files in the base that you can look around for that might give you your answer about what Niang was up to and what he was behind," Harbour answered, looking at the floor when he said this.

He was fairly quiet until he raised his head and looked Raze straight in the eye.

"I have a question to ask you… were you the one that killed my sister?"