[Drake]
[Level: Lv. 2]
[Classes: Shadow Monarch, Sword Hero]
[Basic Abilities: Strength SSS, Endurance SSS, Dexterity S, Agility S, Magic SSS]
[Developnt Ability: Stigma Alchemy (H)]
[Skills: Terra Craftsman, Gift of Salvation]
[Magic: None]
"…"
"So I really can see my own ability values."
Inside the guest room, Drake lay on the soft bed, looking at the information panel before his eyes with great interest.
The residents of this world could all check similar status information.
Through it, they could learn their own attributes, as well as the skills, magic, and other abilities they possessed.
After becoming a Hero of this world, Drake had naturally obtained a similar ability.
However, the "status panel" on him was sowhat different from those of the native residents.
It was even different from the panels of the other Heroes.
Judging from the additional information such as "Basic Abilities" and "Developnt Ability"…
The Falna on Drake's body had directly overwritten this world's status panel.
For example, this world's levels were similar to those in online gas and could continually rise into the triple digits.
Drake's level, however, was the Familia level from the DanMachi world: Lv. 2.
In this world, Lv. 2 was basically the level of a newly enlisted soldier, a rookie adventurer, or an ordinary person like a farr.
From that, it was clear that the priority of a god's Falna was higher than this world's level system.
After all, it was a blessing personally bestowed by a god. It obviously could not be compared to the cheap status system that everyone in this world possessed.
Still, there were benefits to this. At the very least, Drake could now view his own condition much more directly.
"Strength, Endurance, and Magic have all reached SSS. Not bad."
"Dexterity and Agility are a bit low. There's still room for improvent."
"Is it because I've been solving most fights lately by brute force…"
"Looks like I'll need to pay more attention to movent and positioning from now on."
After that, Drake used Appraisal on the wooden sword in his hand.
As a Holy Weapon, this sword was obviously not an ordinary wooden sword.
Sure enough, after a burst of dazzling golden light, a large amount of information popped up in Drake's vision.
[Holy Weapon "Sword" (White)]
[ Converts items into energy and uses that energy for enhancent]
[ Absorbs energy to increase its own rarity, up to 10 tis]
[ Copies "sword" type weapons below its own rarity and obtains their skills]
[ Fighting with swords accumulates proficiency, with an upper limit of 100]
[ The higher the proficiency, the greater the damage dealt by sword-type weapons]
[- In the current world, weapons other than "swords" cannot be used]
[- Rejects the effects of other Holy Weapons]
In short, this "Holy Sword" could continuously absorb the energy of other items to grow.
At the sa ti, it could copy weapons of the sa "sword" type and obtain the corresponding skills.
The more items Drake fed it, the higher the rarity of the swords it could transform into.
At present, its rarity was white, the second-lowest rarity in Terraria.
If he wanted it to copy the orange-rarity Broken Bio Blade in his possession, he would need to raise its own rarity by three levels first.
"The Holy Sword can increase its rarity up to ten tis… so it can reach red, then."
"Looks like it'll be usable until I finish off the Moon Lord."
The original version of Terraria had eleven levels of rarity, with purple being the highest.
As for rainbow rarity, that was a unique color for boss-exclusive drops and did not count among the normal rarity levels.
Calamity added even more powerful items and expanded the rarity scale further.
The highest was the seventeenth level, "Calamity Red."
If this Holy Sword were fully enhanced, it should beco a fairly powerful level-eleven or level-twelve weapon.
Compared with so of the divine gear in the later stages of Calamity, it would still fall short.
But for the current Drake, it should already be more than enough.
"However… in this world, I can only use sword-type weapons."
"That's a restriction. Not a huge one, but not a small one either."
Drake currently had two main weapons. The first was the Broken Bio Blade, and the second was the Superheated Plasma Cannon.
When facing groups of enemies or gigantic foes, he mostly used the latter.
The forr was only brought out against human-sized, highly mobile enemies like Kagetane Hiruko.
Now that he had beco the "Sword" Hero, his weapons were limited to a single category.
Naturally, that would affect his combat power… but it was not a major problem.
Judging from his performance in the audience chamber earlier, Drake could still use his Shadow Monarch skill.
Even relying solely on his shadow soldiers would be enough for him to sweep through this world.
Of course, he had co to save the world, not to make an enemy of it.
"Saving the world… I suppose I'll start by feeding items to the Holy Sword."
Just as Drake was about to return to Terraria and raise the Holy Sword's rarity to orange first, a knock suddenly ca from the door.
"Um… Sword Hero, do you have a mont?"
It was Naofumi Iwatani's voice.
If he had co looking for Drake, it was probably for that one matter.
"Co in."
"Sorry to intrude."
A sowhat reserved Naofumi Iwatani then pushed open the door.
"So it's the Shield Hero."
"Ahaha…"
Hearing Drake address him that way, Naofumi scratched his neck awkwardly.
"Compared to your strength, soone like can't really be called a Hero at all. I'm just an ordinary person who happened to get summoned."
Drake casually tossed the Holy Sword into his inventory, and the action made the protagonist before him twitch his eyelids again.
Naofumi had also been studying this world's "system" earlier, but he did not seem to have found anything like an inventory.
In other words… Drake had already possessed the ability to use storage space on his own?
"It's late. What do you need from ?"
"Oh, right."
Naofumi ca back to his senses and directly explained why he was here.
The other two Heroes wanted to invite Drake to take part in a "Hero Conference" to discuss their plans from this point onward.
"No need."
Drake had no interest in that, and he had his own reasons.
"You should have already seen the final effect of the Holy Weapons."
"Heroes who possess Holy Weapons cannot form parties and act together. The Holy Weapons repel one another."
"Besides…"
Drake said it as though it were only natural.
"With your current strength, you would not be able to adapt to the intensity of the battles I'll be facing."
"Ahaha… yeah, that makes sense."
The mont Naofumi thought of the four-ard Skeleton King Drake had summoned, his scalp went numb.
The tiny wooden shield in his hand probably would not even withstand a single blow.
The powerful enemies and battles soone that strong needed to face were simply not sothing low-level Lv. 1 Heroes like them could endure.
"I'll pass your words on to them."
Just as Naofumi was about to leave, Drake suddenly spoke.
"Since your attitude isn't bad, I'll give you one piece of advice."
"Be careful of won."
"Be careful… huh?"
Even after walking out of the room, Naofumi still did not understand what Drake ant by those words.
Still, since it was advice from the overwhelmingly powerful Sword Hero, it had to be correct.
"Looks like when I go adventuring, I'll need to keep my distance from the won of this world."
...
Early the next morning, after enjoying a lavish royal breakfast, the Heroes gathered together.
"Heroes-sama, these are the individuals willing to assist you on your adventures as companions."
Holding his scepter, the king descended from the throne and introduced them to the Heroes.
Before the four Heroes stood twelve young n and won dressed in various styles of adventurer attire.
Among them were also people wearing full knight armor, looking very much like nobles.
The king then walked up to Drake and spoke with great enthusiasm.
"Sword Hero-sama, whom would you like to choose to accompany you?"
"Oh? I'm choosing them myself?"
Drake raised an eyebrow.
He rembered that in this part of the plot, the adventurers were supposed to decide for themselves which Hero they wished to follow.
"Of course. All of them wish to adventure alongside a Hero as powerful as yourself."
The king stroked his beard and looked toward the adventurers before him.
"To avoid disputes, we will let you choose for yourself."
"Oh... I see."
'It seems showing off my strength was the right choice. This is the treatnt a Hero should get.'
'Since that is the case, I should test this king's bottom line.'
"King, I am unfamiliar with this world. Do you have any recomndations?"
"You want my recomndation?" A glint flashed in the king's eyes, as if he had been waiting for those exact words.
"Sword Hero-sama has given quite the difficult question."
"For the best choice... I recomnd her as your companion."
Saying so, the king guided a girl with wine-red hair to Drake's side.
The girl possessed a tall, mature figure and a beautiful, striking face. She was the kind of beauty who would turn heads on the street.
"This is Myne Sophia. She can use interdiate fire magic despite her young age and possesses a good combat capability."
Pausing for a mont, the king gave the red-haired girl a aningful look.
"Furthermore, upon hearing of your great strength, she felt deep admiration for you and wishes to follow you on your adventure."
"Sword Hero-sama, what do you think?"
'Heh... it seems the old man has not given up.'
Drake looked at the girl in front of him with a calm expression.
Sensing his gaze, Myne appeared a bit shy, an inviting blush rising on her cheeks.
If he did not know this woman's true nature, Drake might have actually been deceived by her sweet appearance.
"I will choose her." The corners of Drake's mouth turned up in a slight smile. "She alone is enough."
"Hehe... As long as Sword Hero-sama is satisfied."
Seeing that Drake had indeed chosen Myne, lromarc II revealed a contented smile.
A peculiar light flickered in Myne's eyes as well.
'Excellent.'
'All three of them had a bright future ahead.'
Because Drake made his choice in advance, the remaining eleven handpicked elite adventurers ford parties with the other three heroes.
Among them, Spear Hero got five, Bow Hero got five, and Shield Hero... got one.
"Is this... a bit unfair?" Naofumi Iwatani looked at the Spear Hero surrounded by female adventurers and spoke to the king with indignation.
"My only weapon is a shield. How am I supposed to improve my strength like this?"
The only person willing to assist him was a balding, middle-aged adventurer.
It seed the other two heroes' parties were full, leaving the man no choice but to accompany Naofumi.
After all, in this country, the Shield Hero was viewed as a symbol of the "Devil" and "Ominous" tidings.
"That is sothing Shield Hero will need to figure out for himself," the king replied with indifference.
"Even the Sword Hero has only one follower. Do you still wish to demand more?"
"Uh..." Naofumi glanced at Myne standing beside Drake, left speechless.
'Comparing my strength to the Sword Hero... is that even comparable? He would be fine even if he brought no one along!'
"Now then, these are the support funds I have prepared for the heroes. Please put them to good use."
At the king's command, attendants carrying trays of coin pouches approached the heroes.
The crisp clinking of tal rang out from the trays with every step. The pouches appeared filled with genuine gold and silver coins.
"Each Hero will receive 600 silver coins as support funds. Because Sword Hero and Shield Hero only have one follower each, they will receive an additional subsidy of 400 silver coins."
"You may use this money to purchase equipnt and adventuring supplies in the capital. Please embark on your journeys—the next Wave of Calamity will descend in one month. I ask the heroes to improve themselves and help the lromarc Kingdom survive this disaster!"
"Yes!!"
As the saying goes, taking soone's money softens one's stance.
The other three heroes, having accepted the support funds, let out a unified, spirited shout.
Drake, however, stared at the coin pouch in his hands in thought.
'To think it can be identified as Terraria currency... interesting.'
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