Another day had passed, and the army was struggling. The poison had settled for the most part, and the sickness lingered quite a bit. Even so, with no choice but to move forward, Regalia readied the n and the won with harsh words that felt like a lash to get them on their feet. The holy order and the elves, on the other hand, did much better. For one, the elves were unaffected by the poison, and the holy order had been wandering the town trying to win the hearts of the people when the poisoning happened.
Only a handful in the order were affected, and given their affinity for divine powers as well as the blessings on their armor, they had recovered quickly. Unfortunately for the rest, this war would be tougher than expected. And right before Raven was about to give the order to march outward, lenai sent a servant to get the hero and his companions to i’s main workshop.
Not wanting to waste any ti, they made their way over there swiftly and as soon as they arrived, the legless woman moved in front of a table on which she’d laid down the forged equipnt. Smiling, she beckoned Adith first, and as he stepped forward, she turned around on her floating gloves and picked up a sword with nurous small insignias.
"Your blood and your character determines the enchantnt of these equipnts, and so..." Holding the blade towards Adith, the Caladrius smiled. "I was quite surprised when this weapon gained such a peculiar ability."
"What is it?" He asked, taking the sword from ii’s hands.
Before she could answer, however, the silver blade itself made a ringing noise. Looking down on it, Adith watched as the insignia burned with a bright white light, and that’s when he felt a new ability making its way into his list of nurous skills. A bit confused, he closed his eyes and quickly checked what had happened through his internal stat screen.
’The Judge And The Executioner.’ A new skill had made its way into his stats, and to his further surprise, it didn’t just affect his enemy but also him. ’Hmm...’
Opening his eyes, he turned around to et the curious gaze of his party mbers. Taking just a mont to digest everything himself first, the magus took a deep breath and explained.
"Seems like I can question people, and if they lie to , this blade will easily kill them, but there’s a problem." Biting the insides of his cheeks, his eyes lowered to the weapon yet again. "I can’t lie to the enemy either when I use this skill, and if I try to kill soone innocent, even if they’re lying to , the blade will kill as well."
"Too risky," Raven concluded, and with a nod, Adith affird the assessnt.
Not only could the blade kill him, but if an enemy was asked a question, they were also given a chance to ask sothing to Adith. And since he couldn’t lie, since it would kill him as well, too much critical information could fall into the hands of the enemy.
"I told you it’s a peculiar skill," speaking up again. ii turned around to the table once more, "I call it the sword of judgnt, but you’re free to call it whatever you’d like. Anyways, ti for another person to get their shiny new toy, ehehe~"
Excited to show off her creations, i lifted a floral earring with a tulip tip with her astral hands. Turning around, she eyed the only fair elf of the party and beckoned her closer. A bit unsure for so reason, l looked around–even stared at lenai and Flitza for a bit.
’Is there any point in taking these equipnt when they seem to have drawbacks?’ Prematurely assuming the worst, she shook her head, not expecting much while approaching i. For a brief mont, her eyes landed on Reina, who had been standing by the forge working on sothing. The ding of her hamr was giving her a headache, and if her equipnt had a drawback as well, then dealing with all the annoyance would’ve been for nothing.
"Alright, let’s see," taking the earring in her hand, l quickly took off the dark scale earrings that she’d used against Aran’s army long ago, "Well, they’re not that heavy at least."
Putting the equipnt on, she quickly closed her eyes and skimd through her list of skills. At the very end, she found a new ability–temporary, of course, and only there thanks to her currently wearing the earrings.
"Natura’s Blessing..." Opening her eyes, she squinted at the blacksmith. "That’s it? A blessing by soone I don’t even know."
"Natura?" Popping out of Liliyana’s hair, Will-O almost spilt the beans by speaking up without realizing it. "I didn’t know mother still gave blessings."
"Mother?" l asked, swiftly turning to face the fairy.
"Oh..." Looking around wide-eyed, the fairy covered her mouth and floated still. "N-nothing!"
"You know sothing, don’t you?" With a frown on her face, l stepped forward and tried to draw out more information from the fairy. But quickly retreating back into Liliyana’s hair, Will-O hid from the curious elf.
And while Raven had a very good idea as to who that could be, he decided to keep his mouth shut. Umbra didn’t want her presence to be known to the goddess or anyone else, for that matter; thus, the fairy mother of nature, as well as fair elves, would probably prefer to keep her identity a secret as well.
"Next!" i called, and with that, the matter ca to a halt.
However, l was no stranger to the tales from her ancestors. Born from a shared connection with the fae, she, too, had an idea that whoever Natura was, must’ve been a fairy or at least a deity of so kind whose descendants beca the fair elves. Even so, much like the mystery of the poisoner, all she had was speculation and no concrete answers.
Thus, the next person stepped up to accept their equipnt, and that would be Aria.
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