177 The Heart Crusher Daggers
I took out hills of gears. I made sure to gather up those belonging to the same class together. Shields were together. Weapons were stacked together… and so on.
“Let them change their gears,” I said before adding while noticing the expression of shock over their faces, “as for the old gears, they can simply sell them in the market. Warn them that with each passing quest, the value of their gears will diminish accordingly.”
“This…” Leo seemed the most shocked one here. He simply dived in, grabbed one big broadsword that seemed rather deadly. It emitted strange and ominous purple air, making anyone seeing it feel dreadful.
That was the difference between gold grade gears and those lower to them. These gears were strong and sturdy enough to suit anyone for a long time inside the apocalypse.
Fine grade was a milestone in the world of equipment.
“Just give these to them,” I waved my hand, “I know you got great things from the chariot armoury before. But if you want to add or replace anything, feel free to do that.”
“Thanks boss,” they all said in unison and strangely they started to select a few things from these massive piles.
What I noticed was that most if not all of them went first towards the boots and gloves section. It seemed my armoury lacked such things there.
“I also need to change my gears,” seeing this I started to look at my old gears. They weren’t bad before. But compared to higher grade gears like fine or even dark gold in the market, they greatly paled in comparison.
“That glaive…” I recalled that glaive I got when I first summoned my chariot. I had now two hundred stat points in each of my stats. Yet when I took it out again, I couldn’t even hold it with both arms, letting it fall heavily on the ground before recalling it fast.
“Sigh… It seems I have to wait until delving into the cultivation world,” I bitterly shook my head before opening the market interface again and started to look for suitable gears for myself.
The market was filled with many fine gold grade gears, but there were also few dark gold grade gears. Above that there was nothing even when I scanned the auctions going on.
“Alright… I have to train myself over glaives before using that berserk one,” I said to myself while limiting my search for dark gold grade glaives.
“Only two?!! Weird!” Were glaives uncommon or what?
The first glaive didn’t seem that nice. It had the advantage of heavy weight, giving it a bonus destruction over shields. It added almost double the damage of the second glaive but I didn’t like that idea.
“Being super heavy means I’ll struggle to move it. Compared to that, I can use that light one to cause triple attacks at least…”
Of course I had to pause there as there was nothing to confirm except by trying both and seeing the difference.
The second glaive was lighter but it had two advantages; crit rate higher than the other one plus a bonus sharpness and armour penetration.
One had the bonus of extra weight to crush down shields and armours, giving more damage using crushing force over the enemy. The other one had the advantage of sharpness, higher crit rate, depending entirely over penetrating enemies, shields, and armours.
Well the two had their own advantages. I wasn’t stingy or bitter to not buy them both. After all, in some situations I might need the crushing force and in other situations I might need the other one’s advantages.
Glaives were such weapons that couldn’t be dealt single handed. Of course as I grew stronger and after unlocking my cultivation, my personal strength would summit and be enough to carry any of these two single handed.
But would I hold the two glaives together? Damn! That looked awesome in my mind but I had to be realistic here…
Just the long range of each one would hinder each other so it would end up making me lose more than I’d gain.
The price of the first one was slightly over five million coins and the second was strangely higher by one million coins.
These prices seemed overinflated, but I didn’t bat an eye to buy them. One had to know that the standard price for a fine gold gear was worth thousands. The good weapons there would only cost roughly a few tens of thousands, rarely exceeding a hundred thousand mark.
But that might concern anyone but me. After I got the two glaives, I didn’t hurry to test them as I went towards a spree of purchases.
A dark gold helmet that would give me an additional bonus to my hawkeye skill… A dark gold helmet that would turn me invisible for ten minutes straight before being on cooldown for five minutes… A dark gold full body armour that had a faint red yellow layer that would absorb the first five weak attacks or stop one deadly attack directly before crashing down.
It would take roughly one to two minutes for that layer to be reignited into life again depending on the strength of the attacks it shielded.
Next item was a dark gold glove with a useful ability to help in reducing the weight of the weapon I held. Then came the dark gold boots that added astonishingly triple my current speed for two minutes and one minute cooldown.
Yet even with the cooldown, the speed would increase by fifty percent. It was a good item that I greatly loved.
After buying all these, I started to replace and equip myself with the new gears. A gust of strength, health, speed, and confidence surged inside of me after wielding them all.
“Time to test the glaives,” I took out the first heavyweight glaive to test it. From my first experience with that colossally heavy glaive, I lacked much confidence in holding that new one easily.
“It’s… not that bad,” but unlike my worries, I managed to hold it straight and fine with two hands. When I tried holding it with one hand, I felt like my entire body tilted to one side under its heavy weight.
“Ok, two hands then,” I stabilised myself as this shift of weight came all of sudden. Despite being able to stand and even walk and run without much affection thanks to my boots and gloves. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
But to use it in a fight using one hand was literally impossible. I recalled it back and took out the second one.
Just by holding it for a brief second there I knew how big the difference in weight between the two was. This one felt like a feather compared to that behemoth I held first.
Waving it felt like a natural move. It was fast but when I held it with both hands… Things looked quite different!
*Swish!* *Swish!* *Swish!*
I waved it twice and surprisingly it flashed fast, creating a series of afterimages. Wow! I now knew how this little baby of me would penetrate through shields and armours.
“Alright,” as I got what I needed for myself, I planted the light glaive into the ground using its dull end and leant over its shaft while examining the market.
This time I had to find an item or a way to stop my enemy from fleeing.
I found many things to set a trap to imprison my enemy. Yet the problem still remained in my lack of ability to see through his stealth.
Without knowing where he was, how could I trap or even attack him?
So bypassing these items with no use, I kept looking for anything to blow the cover of any hidden enemy.
After a few minutes, I found almost twenty items and gears that could be used to uncover any stealthiness. The only problem they had was their very limited area of effect.
The widest area of effect of any of them didn’t even exceed one hundred metres! That was never helping at all!
As I failed to find what I needed here, I turned to the auctions and tried to find my thing there. But even after half an hour of meticulously going through all the items that could expose any hidden person, I failed to find a suitable one.
“All have short limits…” I closed my market interface while landing a punch over my glaive’s shaft out of frustration. The punch strangely pushed the glaive away from me for a few metres before it vanished as if it got teleported away.
“Damn! Did I buy something with a big ego or what?!!” I blinked twice before running towards the place it vanished at. Yet I failed to find it.
*Zing!* *Zing!* Zing!*
Just as I felt lost, I heard a strange buzzing sound coming from a certain direction. For a moment there I didn’t know what was happening but in a flash I realised what was going on.
It seemed like in the middle of the world, a red beacon was flashing intermittently, releasing that buzzing sound that seemed to not be heard by anyone but me.
“Come!” I pointed my hand towards it and feigned a holding grasp move. For a second nothing happened but before I could pull my hand back, I saw a bright flash coming towards my direction before that glaive landed in my hand.
“So I can throw and call you back? Good boy!” I even patted on it, in some sort of apology.
But just as I did that, a thing flashed in my mind. I moved my gaze between the glaive in my hand and the place it was thrown at.
“So… I can do it this way…” I muttered before hurriedly opening the market interface again and looked for a totally different thing.
I scanned for anything that could locate someone. Of course that might seem absurd, as how would I locate someone I couldn’t see?
But I was looking for something that could locate a person using his aura. I found an interesting pair of daggers that had such amazing ability.
[Devil daggers: Dark gold grade pair of daggers. It gives a bonus penetration and sharpness when facing a shield or an armour. Has the slashing and tracking ability]
[Slashing and tracking ability: if you hit someone enough to make him wounded or severely injured, then the daggers will lock on his aura. Even if he teleported miles away, one dagger will stay embedded hidden inside his body while the other will remain in your hand. Between the two, a link that can only be seen by you will appear and you can follow it for as long as it takes to reach him.
Warning: Storing away the dagger in your hand will force the other to travel back, cut that link, and you’ll end up only causing slight damage by the second dagger but not enough to kill the target]
This was it! My eyes shone while I paid the five million coin price of that pair of daggers. I held the two in my hands and examined them.
They weren’t identical, with one short and one longer than the other. The short one was slimmer than the longer one, but their blades were curved identically to each other.
Putting them against each other would create a shape of a heart as their tips were much curved acutely to the inside.
“The heart… I like that!” I muttered before throwing the two in the air one by one as if I was playing with them, “you can take the shape of a loving heart and have the ability to take away the heart of a loving person… I’ll call you The Heart Crusher daggers from now on.”
I found it a little funny and ironic. Yet this wasn’t over, it was just the first piece.
“I need another piece… Let’s see…” I started to search again about the items that could locate someone. As I could find that bastard’s location even without seeing through his stealth, it was enough to lock him up until I reached him.
As for how I’d do that? Easy peasy… I’d simply use the dagger to kill one shadow on me and then one dagger would travel towards that bastard’s location and expose him for me.
But I needed something that could trap him from far away, without needing me to be close to him. As I hardly believed he would be near the place of that tower at all.