'I shouldn't have accepted this meeting... now I'm going to die.'
That was the only thing Hisea could think, taking away a mage's divine power is the same thing as taking away their life force, it's common sense, divine power works like vitality, even if Gain said she wouldn't die it would be nonsense.
Her body was floating in front of Gain, who was standing there observing her chest, or rather inside her chest, her heart.
'It's been like this for several minutes.'
Gain was observing every part and function of the Saint's heart.
'So that's how it works.'
He took two steps back.
"Are you going to let me go?"
"I'd be stupid if I did that, I need to take away your divine power first, don't worry you won't die-"
"Shut up! Everyone knows that when you take away a mage's divine power, he dies!"
Gain laughed at her situation and reached out his right hand to her chest, coming close to touching it.
'This... hump! Your life is at stake, calm down Hisea, if I concentrate divine power in my mouth and use an incantation-'
She didn't have time to think, a groan of pain came out of her mouth, Gain had started.
A flawless heart made of aura had formed in her right hand and that same heart was beating and absorbing Hisea's divine power.
Gain is guaranteed that she won't die, he has studied divine hearts, if he replaces the saint's divine power with Nim it would make her not die, even more so if he uses the Nim he has more control over, the Nim of life.
"ARGH!!!"
Hisea felt an unbearable pain in her chest.
All of her divine power was being absorbed, she felt her strength disappearing.
"S-Stop!!"
In a single heartbeat, a large amount of the divine was absorbed as if her heart was being pulled.
"ARGH!!!!"
"Hold on a little longer."
'You only say that because you're not you-'
"AHHHHH!"
Hisea felt as if her organs were slowly being stabbed, her eyes simply turning white.
She fainted.
The aura heart completely absorbed the saint's divine power, and Gain filled her with Nim.
One thing that was certain was that the saint would not die.
And finally, the aura heart transformed into a divine heart, and Gain began to absorb the heart.
Two weeks later.
Gain got what he wanted, the aura heart transformed into an artificial divine heart.
He studied about the divine heart and even the celestial heart for a whole week without stopping, and also signed the war decree.
Through his studies, Gain discovered the principle of the divine heart. It was obviously a heart, but people who were born with it could generate their own divine power. When he analyzed the heart of the Mage Rachel, he realized that it was a divine heart that she was born with. That's why she could use spells that involved death and duplication. If he absorbed the divine power that a divine heart has, he could rise to high levels. That's something he studied. He could transcend human limits and become an angel. Of course, it was something about the divine heart. If he absorbed and meditated on the divine heart, he could make his body reach the angelic essence and be able to talk to the gods. He was certainly sure that the book was right. He cultivated the celestial heart impulsively. He felt that he had to do that, but he wasn't sure why. That's why he wanted to ask the gods why. He managed to get at least one more divine heart.
That day, Smithy Stãin. That was the day to get the black steel sword.
Gain was wearing his usual Hanfu in front of an open-air forge. Around him, there were tools like hammers and springs for sharpening.
A middle-aged woman, around 30 years old, was in front of the forge, hammering the black steel a little.
'Even without touching it, I can already feel its skill.'
There were only a few hammer strokes left for the Blacksmith to finish.
She finished hammering and pulled the sword out of the forge. The sword was cold as if it hadn't even been in that hot forge.
"I'm done."
Luina Ironheart, the prodigy blacksmith, many say she has a blessing to be a blacksmith.
Luina handed the sword to Gain.
"Please choose a name!" She said happily.
It was a ritual, every knight had to choose the name of his sword, and it would be no different with Gain.
The steps for the ritual were simple, first imbue the sword with aura, second name the sword and third swing the sword.
Gain imbued the sword with his snow-white aura.
"Do you really need a name?"
"Yes, it is necessary for the sword, it is like naming your child. The sword may not recognize you if you do not name it, especially with a sword made of black steel, the war knight almost failed because of that, the aura is for it to recognize you and the name is for it to accept you."
"Let me think of a name."
It was something simple, the aura worked for the sword knowing the aura of its wielder, and the name to tame it, swords like these without names can become cursed swords that drain the wielder's aura.
Gain thought of countless ideas of names for the sword, until he came up with a name.
"Must-Heavenly!"
A random name that appeared in his thoughts, it was random but he felt a connection.
The sword, or now, Must-Heavenly, sucked Gain's aura, and finishing the ritual, he swung the sword in a firm and linear cut.
Just like when he used a cut ten years ago to teach Asuta a technique, at that time dozens of mountains were evaporated, but now some islands on the other side of the empire were simply evaporated but this time even the atoms were torn apart.
"Ah!"
Luina was startled by the cut, her instinct told her that she was going to die.
'What cut was that?!'
She didn't know it, but she had just witnessed the birth of the strongest sword.
"Does it have a scabbard?"
"Eh! T-There is! I had forgotten."
Luina ran to a steel cabinet and grabbed a scabbard also made of black steel and ran back to Gain.
She handed the scabbard to Gain and he put the Must-Heavenly back into the scabbard.
"What a different scabbard."
Ordinary scabbards had only one style of shape, with no accessories, but this one was different. A line of another type of steel circling the scabbard.
"What is this?"
"Ah! It's Eisen Steel, its scabbard is also made of Black Steel, meaning that it absorbs even a little of your aura, the Eisen Steel line weakens the absorption of the scabbard and also weakens the sword so as not to destroy the scabbard. Originally I wasn't going to do this, but when I was forging the Black Steel it was simply absorbing too much of the aura from my hammer that it was destroyed, I had to use several hammers to do it."
"In other words, this will help my scabbard not to be overloaded by the Must-Heavenly. You were smart, how much was it?"
"No need to pay, just making the sword and the scabbard of the sword saint is enough."
"I'll ask them to provide a mansion to make your forges."
"No need-"
Gain took off running and disappeared.
"Yeah, he's gone."
Saira Island.
Gain was sitting watching a mountain on this island, the grassland clear, but in front of him a huge footprint.
'So a Mystical Creature has reached adulthood.'
Mystical Creatures had three stages in their lives. The first stage was birth, which lasted until the creature was 150 years old. The second stage was adolescence, which lasted from 300 to 500 years old. The third and final stage was adulthood, which began at 501 years old and continued.
With each stage, the power of the Mystical Creature increased. This was a case that happened. Gain was called to finish off a mystical creature that had reached adulthood. An adulthood could threaten the planet.
A rumble spread across the entire island.
Gain realized that its origin came from the mountain and observed it more closely. A paw appeared climbing a mountain and soon revealed itself, something colossal.
"There you are."
It was something similar to a lion but made of ice. As if inviting Gain to a fight, the lion roared.
Gain in turn drew his sword from its sheath and charged towards the colossal lion on the mountain.
The Mystical Creature of Ice, the Everest Lion.
End