Chapter 1884: The Strongest Weapon

"The strongest weapon?" Jack dangled the fallen apostle's longsword in his hand. "Isn't this the strongest weapon...? Wait... Do you mean..."

"You realize it?" Chris asked with a grin.

"Realize what? You understand what he means?" Peniel asked Jack.

"This weapon is not a heritage weapon!" Jack announced.

"Duh. Didn't I already establish that?" Peniel rolled her eyes at Jack.

Jack brought out his Storm Breaker. "This means I can feed it to my sword!" Jack exclaimed.

"Hehe, bingo," Chris said.

Without further ado, Jack carried out the process. By consuming the fallen apostle's longsword, his Storm Breaker would immediately jump to the highest level.

Storm Breaker broke apart as it started the consumption process. Tendrils of energy came out of Storm Breaker and wrapped around the fallen apostle's longsword. As they did, red lightning lashed out of the crimson sword and slapped the tendrils of energy back.

"Oh? This is unexpected," Chris uttered.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Jack asked.

The red lightning from the fallen apostle's longsword was getting fiercer. It even lashed out beyond the tendrils of energy attempting to wrap it. Jack and the others hurriedly jumped away to avoid getting hit by this lightning.

"The fallen apostle's longsword seems to refuse to get consumed," Chris said.

"You think? Why do you give a weapon a will of its own?" Jack grumbled.

The two weapons continued to wrestle control over one another. The process went on for almost three minutes before the tendrils of energy from Storm Breaker fully wrapped the crimson sword. The split components of Storm Breaker then recombined into a sword on top of the wrapped sword. Both fused as a light engulfed them.

"Luckily, your growth weapon is already a legendary grade," Chris said. "Otherwise, I think the feeding process will fail. It might even destroy your otherwise indestructible growth weapon."

"Motherf*cker... If that happens, I will whoop your ass. Creator or not, I don't care," Jack said.

As the light dimmed, Storm Breaker again transformed in appearance. It was no longer a simple straight longsword. It was now slightly curved and appeared more ornate. It was also thicker and larger. Its color had changed to become dominated by red. At the center of its cross-guard was a round transparent orb. Inside this orb were swirling energies. Half of these energies were silver, while the other half were dark purple.

Jack extended a hand and gripped the still-floating weapon at its hilt. He felt a jolt from that hand coursing through his body. It was a refreshing jolt, though. He felt revitalized. An unexplainable confidence rose in his heart. He had a strong feeling that he could do anything as long as this sword was in his hand.

He swung the sword around. A trail of light followed his swing. His dragon eye perceived many thin slices of cut space along this trail. It was his Void Sword Saint's passive effect. It seemed this sword increased the chance of the effect triggering by many times.

"Hm..." He put his other hand on the hilt. He then pulled his two hands apart. Storm Breaker split in half. He was now holding two longswords. The two swords were a thinner version of their previous form.

"Even though it was not written in the description, that is the original ability of the Fallen Apostle's longsword," Chris explained. "You asked before why the pinnacle weapon for Blade Dancer is not dual swords, right? That is the answer."

"Cool, but this ability is useless to me," Jack said. He combined the two swords back into one. "I'm still going to use a magic staff in my other hand. Otherwise, how can I cast spells?"

He then showed a face that realized something. "Unless..."

"Unless what?" Peniel asked.

Instead of answering, Jack took out his magic staff and cast Double Clone. Two copies of himself appeared next to him. His two clones split the Storm Breaker in their hands. Both were now holding two split swords.

"Yes!" Jack exclaimed. "Only one can cast Magic Weapon. My other clones usually use the magic staff as a makeshift sword. Now, all my clones can wield dual swords."

Jack deactivated his Double Clone. He checked the stats of his newly transformed Storm Breaker. He repicked the weapon skills. He mostly chose the skills gained from the Fallen Apostle's Longsword, except for the stat increase. He didn't need the stat increase that much.

*

Storm Breaker, level 99 (legendary one-handed sword, bound weapon), embedded: Orb of Eurus (Rare-grade Weapon orb).

Physical damage: 2,420

Attack speed 5

Indestructible. Bound to Storm Wind.

All sword skills +20% damage.

Demon Spirit (Response skill): Every successful hit grants the wielder a demonic aura that increases overall damage and defense by 5% (up to 100%). Every slain opponent heals the wielder by 50% HP. The aura lasts 3 minutes. Every successful hit refreshes the duration.

Scourge of the Demon Swords: Marks an area with a radius of 150 meters. 100 demon swords assail the marked area. Each hit from the demon swords dealt 200% chaos damage. When this skill ends, all enemies still within the marked area receive 1000% chaos damage. Duration: 30 seconds. Cooldown: 6 hours

Demonize Weapon (active skill): Weapon's damage +1,000. Damage changes to Chaos damage. Duration: 10 minutes. Cooldown: 3 hours.

Devilize (Active skill): Transforms into a devil. Duration: 1 hour. Cooldown: 1 day.

Overlimit-S: Release the weapon's hidden power. Every attack deals an additional 200% chaos damage and 200% soul damage. Increase the weapon's reach by 5 feet. Decrease the defense of hit targets by 90%. Duration: 5 minutes. Cooldown: 3 hours.

Four wind energies constantly swirl around the weapon. Whenever the weapon makes contact, the wind energies lash out and deal 50% wind damage.

*

Jack whistled. His weapon's damage increased even further after fusing Strom Breaker with the strongest longsword in this world. Now, Storm Breaker had truly become the strongest sword.

"Hey, there are also changes to the Overlimit skill!" Jack exclaimed.

An S letter was added to the skill's name. Its cooldown was halved to three hours. Its chaos damage was reduced by 100%, but it gained an additional 200% soul damage.

"This is weird," Jack said. "The Overlimit originally dealt chaos damage. The Fallen Apostle's Longsword also dealt chaos damage. Where does this soul damage come from?"

"Haven't you heard that a negative multiplied by a negative equal a positive?" Chris asked.

"What the heck does that have to do with this?" Jack returned. "Also, that comparison is way off. If following your comparison, it should be chaos multiplied by chaos equal to soul, but what happens here is chaos multiplies by chaos equal to chaos and soul."

Chris seemed to notice the stupidity of his previous statement. He said, "Whatever. I'm the creator, so what I say, goes. Chaos multiplied by chaos equal to chaos plus soul. End of story."

Jack turned to Peniel, who just shrugged. He decided not to waste time discussing the matter.

"A tip for you. If you use Demonize Weapon and Overlimit together, you will have access to a special finishing skill," Chris said.

"Really? Let's give it a try!" Jack exclaimed.

"Hey! Aren't you going to the battlefield soon? You want to have your skills on cooldown when starting the battle?" Peniel reminded.

"Oh... You are right. I almost forgot, hehe," Jack chuckled. He then turned to Chris, "This reminds me. Your Anywhere Portal can get us anywhere, including a place where a battle is going on, right? Otherwise, we will need some time to reach the battlefield."

"Of course, it can," Chris answered.

"Great. Then once we defeat the devils and the underworld army, we will use your portal to teleport directly to World Maker's headquarters! We will catch them by surprise and finish this once and for all!"

"You are obnoxiously confident, aren't you?" Chris said mockingly. "Forget about using my portal to teleport to World Throne. You will have to march the normal way there."

"What? Why?" Jack asked.

"Even if, and I say, if! You manage to defeat the devils and the demon army. Plenty of demons still guard the main underworld portal. They will come at you once you appear in their territory. Many enemy players were also in that headquarters. With just the twenty-three of you, forget about getting to Apollyon. I'm not going to help you just so you can endanger Mae's life."

"Not to mention, Lucifer must be guarding the main underworld portal," Peniel reminded.

"Oh, the devil with God-level power...," Jack muttered.

"Yes. What you need to do IF you defeat the devils is march with your armies into Liguritudum," Chris said. "While your army deals with the demons that guard the main underworld portal, the twenty-three of you will use the power from the Council of Twenty-four to strip Lucifer of his divinity. Again, IF you win, you can go after Apollyon in his headquarters."

"You don't sound very confident in us, do you? What is the cooldown of our divinity-stripping power?" Jack asked.

"Three days," Chris answered. "Hopefully, Apollyon hasn't gotten his Godhood when you, lot, face Lucifer."

"Damn it... Why can't you make it so we can use it without a cooldown?" Jack cursed.

"Where is the..."

"Don't need to answer that!" Jack cut Chris before he completed his sentence. "Answer this other question. How strong is Lucifer without his divine power?"

"Hm... Well, the strongest level and grade he can be is level 99 eternal. But even so, he will for sure be stronger than Satan," Chris answered.

"Great...," Jack uttered.