New World Kingdoms[4]
[Ace POV],
Looking at the mutilated body in front of me, I made my way to the location of one of the men I was following, wondering if he was still alive.
I also noticed that, aside from his body and the dead bodies of the mutated earth rats scattered around, I couldn't find the corpse or even body parts of the men who were with the man in front of me that I was trailing.
I began to wonder if his teammates had abandoned him.
That is if they considered themselves teammates at all.
As I was thinking about these things, I came to the mutilated body of one of the men I had been following and bent down to look at him after making sure he was dead by kicking his body, as I had done before with the mutated earth rats.
After finally approaching the man's body, I noticed his weapon beside him.
I couldn't see it from where I was coming from, but after I got closer to the body, I noticed it because it was now very visible when one got closer to the body.
The weapon was a sword, which also meant that the body I was seeing belonged to one of the two men among the group of four who wielded a sword and based on how the bodies of some of the mutated earth rats corpses looked, the men went down fighting.
Even so, I could tell the mutated earth rats did more to him than he could to them because, aside from his two lower limbs, which appear to have been crushed into meat paste due to the mutated rats wave running with the man who had the corpse in front of him later getting caught up in it, his two upper incomplete limbs appear to have been chewed off his body.
It was now a question of whether the man among the four who wielded a sword had his hand chewed off while still alive.
Apart from his hands, his guts and the most important organ in the lower limb were also chewed off.
If the man was still alive when all of this occurred, the agony could be imagined.
But there is another thing that is puzzling to me which is why the mutated earth rats didn't bother eating off the whole body of the man.
Was it because the majority of the mutated earth rats were still chasing after the other three, or was it for another reason?
There was also the question of why the mutated earth rats acted this way and how they discovered us.
It was also unclear if it was that they found us, and if they did, was it because of the noises the men were making, or if it was all a coincidence.
As I considered these things, I turned to examine the weapon that lay apart from man's corpse and held the sword before calling out the primordial chronicle in my head to check its information.
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[High Normal Grade Reinforced Sword],
Made by a Master level blacksmith who used higher grade materials, monsters bones, and a few metals to make the sword, but due to the blacksmith's level and the grade of the materials used, the sword could only be ranked higher than regular normal grade swords and was not a magical sword.
...
Seeing the information provided to me by the primordial chronicle, I realized that the sword in my hand was a normal-grade item, but unlike the usual normal-grade items I'd seen, this was a high normal-grade item that could be distinguished from the other items in its grade simply by its name.
Looking at the sword in my hand with a new perspective now that I knew its grade, I decided to test its strength by infusing it with my fire elemental mana.
I had done this before with my twin blades, so the process was familiar, as the sword began to heat up after a few seconds, with the metal of the sword turning bright blue due to the heat generated by the sword due to my fire elemental mana.
What was unexpected was that even after five minutes of withstanding my mana, the sword remained strong and didn't appear to be about to be destroyed anytime soon.
When I saw this, it piqued my interest because I never expected a normal-grade item to last this long under my mana.
It should be noted that, while I wasn't yet a rank 1 creature, my level was sufficient to contend with one, albeit only the weak ones, and because I'd been seeing more rare grade items recently, I'd been treating any item below this grade as trash, but with the performance of the sword up to this point, this thought was now incorrect and normal grade items were not trash.
Or they were still trash, with the exception of the high normal-grade items.
Inferior-grade items are trash and should only be used by normal or lower leveled people.
As I considered these things, I increased the intensity and amount of fire elemental mana I was infusing into the reinforced sword in my hand while waiting for a reaction, but aside from the sword emitting more heat and light, there was no other reaction, and the sword didn't appear to be crumbling even after another 10 minutes.
When I saw this, I decided to come to a halt and take another look at the sword in my hands.
It was clear at this point that this sword could be used in lower leveled rank 1 battle by rank 1 species, which impressed me because I thought the normal grade item's use limit was going to be capped at level 25.
This made me realize how much I still have to learn.
I knew this before, but it was better with a reminder.
As I was thinking about this, I turned to look at the leather amour the man was wearing, but based on its destroyed state, it should have been a normal-grade item as well, but even in its destroyed state, I checked its information with the primordial chronicle just to get something no better than having no information.
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[Damaged Amour],
Damaged amour.
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Seeing this, I simply ignored the amour, and after attempting to use the primordial chronicle on the man's corpse and receiving no results, I stood up and proceeded to another mutated earth rats corpse to continue my work.
The reinforced sword was already in my storage ring, so I could play with it more later as I didn't want to waste the time I had left here.
There was no time limit or anything rushing me to leave, but I didn't want to spend any more time on this hill because of the previous event.
Staying in a den of rank 1 monsters was risky, but I was only going to leave once I had maximized my gains.
I increased my harvesting speed and continued down the tunnel as I considered these things.
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