“Ah! The 【Demon-slaying Blade】... broken...”
The girl stared blankly at the half-broken blade lying on the ground, her eyes suddenly losing their luster.
She slumped down powerlessly and gracelessly, staring hollowly at the corpse of her companion who had grown up with her, a partner akin to family, now dead. Her thighs pressed against the chilly floor, sending waves of heart-wrenching coldness through her.
It wasn’t that Lan’s fighting spirit was so unbearable, but rather that the enemy’s strength far exceeded her imagination. Coupled with the destruction of her beloved blade, the girl recalled the warning on the first page of the secret scripture. Overwhelmed with grief and fear, her mental defenses completely collapsed, leaving her utterly desolate.
“Oh, it seems to have been resolved already. Hey, what’s this...?”
Violet ambled out of the bedroom with a thick book in her hands, intending to say something, but she saw the girl who had been cold and mighty when they met in the evening now sitting limp on the ground like a duck, her eyes empty and lifeless. In front of her lay a broken longsword.
Her expression couldn’t help but become somewhat strange.
She quietly approached her unresponsive pet, poking her waist.
“Hey, what’s going on here? You didn’t do something inexplicably strange to her, did you?”
The dragon girl tilted her head innocently.
“No, Master, I just followed your instructions to intimidate this human, rendering her powerless to resist. I didn’t harm her, and I don’t know why she suddenly became like this...”
“How did she end up looking like she’s been abused by a bully... Wait, the sword broke...? Hiss, I remember it said in the manual...”
Opening the thick book titled “True Explanation of Famous Swords,” Violet flipped to the very beginning with a strange expression on her face.
“Ah, here it is, it says— ‘Those who seek to reach the pinnacle of mastery in swordsmanship must forge their own “Destiny Blade” with their own blood and spirit, melding it as one with their soul, only then can they grasp the true path. However, as the sword is the extension of one’s spirit, the destruction of the sword means the demise of the wielder. This is the price of the true path, never allow your destiny sword to shatter, remember, remember’.”
“......?”
After reading this passage labeled ‘Outline,’ which gave her a strong sense of déjà vu, Violet and the young dragon girl exchanged looks. Violet barely resisted the urge to slam the book on the ground and was suddenly filled with frustration.
“Whoever came up with this chuunibyou nonsense! Are they trying to trick people!?”
“Master, I feel like what it says kind of makes sense. Could it be true?”
“Nonsense! Let me tell you, what’s written in this book is actually... this... I... I... ”
The usually gentle and elegant Miss Pristess, for some reason, burst out a string of beautiful words. She seemed to want to explain something, but looking at the confused blonde girl, she didn’t know where to start.
In the end, Violet, who seemed completely speechless, simply came up to Miss Lan, who was still kneeling on the ground, oblivious to the world around her, and lightly tapped her smooth forehead with her finger.
“Alright, stop moping around! This damn book is just messing with you, you fool.”
Violet’s action wasn’t just a physical attack. It also contained a low-level holy magic, “Awakening Resonance,” used to dispel unconsciousness. Its effect was similar to setting off a high-decibel firecracker next to a sleeping person’s ear.
“Waaa!!!”
With shoulder-length black hair, but noticeably shorter than a certain Miss Priestess, Lan jumped up suddenly.
“My 【Demon-slaying Blade】! Ah! You...!”
Before the tall girl with a different hair color but a significant physical advantage could finish her enraged words, Violet thrust the book she had retrieved from the table, “True Explanation of Famous Swords,” into her face and loudly demanded with an unquestionable tone.
“Where did you get this book from?”
“Why should I tell you? You criminals...!”
“Answer! My! Question!!!”
“G-guh...!”
Seemingly intimidated by the fierce momentum of Miss Priestess, Lan let out another pitiful groan.
Even though the black-haired girl in front of her was noticeably shorter, seeming like a childish little sister, somehow, in that moment, Lan felt an undeniable sense of authority emanating from her, as if it were only natural and reasonable to submit to the person before her.
This was a subtle strangeness that Lan hadn’t experienced even with her father Taylor Tulls, the Lord of the Demon Suppression City, and her grandfather Gryffith Tulls, who served as the prime minister, throughout her upbringing.
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Feeling inexplicably perplexed, Lan obediently followed Violet’s orders and revealed the truth.
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“Three hundred years ago, the family exchanged a martial arts manual from a powerful individual at a high price?”
“Yes... It’s said that the individual was extremely mysterious, seemingly from a distant place, and possessed incredible powers beyond the reach of ordinary people. Although our ancestors paid a great price to obtain this book written by his own hands... Wait! Why am I telling you all this? Could it be that you’re using some sinister means to manipulate my mind? You despicable criminal...!”
“Stop babbling! Focus on the matter at hand!!”
“O-okay, I’m really sorry...”
Lan, who had finally reacted, yelled fiercely at Violet, then immediately wilted, holding her broken sword pieces, huddling in the corner, not daring to make a sound.
She looked like a bewildered little girl who had been bullied, nothing like the cold and dignified aura she had when they first met.
The young dragon girl beside them looked puzzled, seemingly not understanding why this human suddenly became so obedient.
Meanwhile, Violet sat beside her, chin in hand, frowning in contemplation. She was indeed thinking about something completely unrelated to their original purpose.
This book, “True Explanation of Famous Swords,” had issues, big issues.
Firstly, it documented abilities from “Illusory World,” a basic warrior skill set, the Great Swordsmanship style.
The powerful individual Lan mentioned from three hundred years ago, absolutely—or maybe saying ‘absolutely’ was a bit too much, but at least there was a ninety-nine percent chance—was a player from the game “Illusory World.”
In other words, a transmigrator like Violet herself.
Although she had previously gathered clues indicating the existence of traces left by players in this world, this book Violet unexpectedly stumbled upon undeniably confirmed this point.
Of course, this book was different from the magic skill compendium Violet had lent to Lilya before. Although it did indeed record dozens of swordsmanship techniques of various low to mid-level tiers, its main content was not a system book from “Illusory World.”
This is a novel, adapted from the classic martial arts novels on Earth, combined with the imagination and swordsmanship insights of that unscrupulous player, creating a mishmash of a product where anything goes.
Let’s not talk about anything else, at least Violet had never heard of the concept of a “Destiny Blade” in the game. In “Illusory World,” there were so many equipment options. Could you really keep using your low-level weapon until the late game?
Although there were indeed so-called growth-type weapons, and indeed there were sentimental players who tirelessly invested high-level materials to upgrade their early purple and gold equipment to near-artifact level, those were ultimately the minority.
Most normal people used whatever they had and switched to better equipment whenever they found it.
Look at this, they’ve completely fooled the poor girl!