The Amber Sword

Chapter 15 – Thorn of light

TL: I won’t be updating the upcoming Saturday for this series, because I brought it forward today. The summary has been tweaked to include more details about the premise and protagonist.

The menacing gargoyle stood tall at nearly two meters and even with its pair of wings tucked in, it had a total width of over five meters. It seemed to fill the entire passageway when it charged at Brendel. The blast of air that came from the gargoyle’s charge stifled Brendel’s breathing, and he found there was nowhere to hide.

He immediately raised his right hand and yelled with all his might: “Oss!”

An earth-shattering roar came from the ring.

The air distorted in the narrow passageway and four consecutive bangs followed as the light crystals embedded in the wall exploded. The maelstrom of air formed into a wind bullet and struck the giant creature. The currents were like sharpened blades and stripped the metallic surface of the monster away. The gargoyle’s lower half body cracked away and was hurled backwards into the air like a broken kite.

It then crashed onto the ground with a thundering boom, and a dust cloud formed in the passageway.

Brendel coughed while he was in the midst of the dust cloud, and he quickly rushed forward with his sword in hand. He knew that a gargoyle had 60 HP in the game and a wind bullet did not kill it. It was more than likely that it was still functioning in this world’s reality.

‘Thorn of light’. This leaf-like sword was rarely seen amongst the human race because it was an Elven sword.

Brendel traced the armguard with his hand and looked above it. He saw the two lines of Elven text:

‘Thy sword shall burst forth from light, and strike thy enemies with terror.”

He had never seen this sword before, but he knew of its fame. This was a Level 19 legendary sword, not only was it exceedingly sharp, and increased the user’s ‘Strength’, ‘Will’ and ‘Physique’ by 1 OZ. This meant that Brendel was two times stronger than a normal human when he used it.

Most importantly, someone in the game had seen this sword in action before. It had the ability to detect the undead that many people had dreamed for. As long as any undead comes near this sword, it will start to pulsate with light, and it was the source of the name.

Brendel appreciated this moment when he looked at it. There was seventeen similar swords made by the Elves in the game, but the majority of it were collected and destroyed by Madara’s shadow lords in the first era. There were only three left, and this was one of them.

He held the sword by the hilt and a power immediately integrated into his body. He felt stronger and lighter, but Brendel did not have too much time to experience it in detail as something appeared in his mind:

“Young man, are you going to continue walking down the road that I pursued?”

[Hah?]

Brendel’s eyebrows jumped up as he realized what this meant. ‘Proof of Inauguration’! This was the ‘Proof of Inauguration! It’s not difficult to get it in the game but he certainly needed this urgently now. It was just that Brendel did not expect the Holy Knight Gerald’s ‘Proof of Inauguration’ to be a mercenary. It was not a Cathedral’s knight and not even a knight.

[What is up with this situation? Isn’t he a knight?]

“You have discovered the  ‘Proof of Inauguration’, you need to spend 2 XP to raise to level 1, would you like to take this profession?”

This profession was certainly better than a militia, even if it was not a ‘Knight’.

“Yes.”

A series of words lit up in his retina.

Mecenary [Charge (—-Level)]

Charge: A skill that assaults the enemies. The striking speed is raised by ten times. Cooldown 1 minute. This skill cannot be used when you have the ‘Weakened’ status.

Brendel could recite the description in his heart without even reading it. He was too familiar with it, because this was the first skill for a warrior class.

Was this fate?

Nothing else happened after that, so Brendel started to look around the tomb. He was uninterested in the treasures in it, but he wanted to find holy water that could repel the undead. It was too good to pass up as it could save someone at the critical juncture. But he suddenly stopped on a small gargoyle statue.

A statue.

[This is it!]

Brendel received a shock. This was the gargoyle’s control rod and it was the key to command the gargoyle. He immediately took that away. It was a delightful surprise to control it. But right at this moment, the tomb suddenly shook and the dust fell from the ceiling. Brendel turned his head to the entrance to hear an explosion that came from the outside.

[It might have come from the farmhouse!]

Brendel felt unsettled.

Did something happened to Freya and Irene? Brendel could only think that there was only this possibility. He quickly grabbed the weaker ‘Number 9’ health potions and wrapped them in his bloody clothes and ran out from the tomb. (TL: Hah? Did he run out shirtless? Wait, when did he even strip?)

In his rush he did not see a piece of paper underneathe the health potions, and it fluttered down onto the ground when he took the potions away.

Brendel knocked onto the gargoyle when he rushed out. But this time he had the control rod, and the monster sat down there like an ornamental statue. Brendel felt a slight pity in his heart. To control the gargoyle he had to have the correct commands, otherwise he would have brought it out to kill the necromancers.

Basically, this mechanical statue was immune to their negative spells, and thus a complete counter to them.

The youth rushed out quickly, but before he was able to catch his breath, there was a sudden attack from within the darkness.

TL: … What’s up with all these cliffhangers. If you spot any mistakes, please inform me. So now that we have reached this point, you guys should know a bit about what the story is. So I don’t know what sort of summary tweaks/ rewrite I need here, so if you would like to take a shot at doing a super good one, write in the comments.