Versatile: Alternate World

After we got what we came for, we revealed the branch to Queen Tori and Queen Tanya who were still talking.

"We have found the items that are still connected to King Arthur," I revealed as I raised the branch of the Tree of Life before them.

"A branch?" Queen Tanya frowned.

"It's the branch of the Tree of Life. It was one of the things that King Arthur left. I was the one who found it among the trinkets so I managed to hide it from my soldiers and to the officials. Those guys might be tempted to steal and do something unspeakable acts using this alone and there might be trouble brewing if this was shown to the public which is why I hid it. But you said this thing is bound to King Arthur?" Queen Tori inspected the branch.

"The branch is unusable and its blessing effects are not usable if it is being used by someone other than the owner. And even if the owner of the branch throws the branch away or it gets separated from the real owner, it will form an invisible connection to the owner so that the two will be reunited once more."

"I see. Then take it. That thing is a potential trouble bearer anyway and I would've preferred for it to be gone in the relic room. It's one of the things that I would be more happy to dispose of, rather than to keep it," Queen Tori shook her head.

"Are you still thinking about the time when our parents were killed as a result of greed that was due to the blessings of the Tree of Life?" Queen Tanya looked at her sister with a solemn look on her face.

"How could I forget? If not for the fact that the Tree of Life decided to randomly bless our parents, then the greed of some people wouldn't have activated and they wouldn't have been killed by it as a result. I know you have already forgotten or decided to forget about it but I refuse to forget, sis. So please, keep that thing away. I am just gonna be reminded by it anyways."

"Sis..." Queen Tanya felt sad for her sister.

"I think this is enough for the day, Sis. If you guys want to stay here, go ahead. You guys are welcome to stay here in this city as long as you like, you as well sis. If you need help from me on getting your throne back, I will not hesitate to lend a hand as well."

"Don't worry, Queen Tori. Although we appreciate the offer, we will have to go and depart as we will have to trace back the guy. We can stay the night, but we will depart as soon as we can," I answered Queen Tori.

"Me too, Sis. Although I appreciate your concerns and also giving me a chance to regain my throne with your help, I think I am fine. I will be fine on my own for now. Besides, I can't let you busy yourself more than you should be," Queen Tanya patted her shoulder.

Queen Tori sighed but she smiled after. "Alright. Glad that I could offer some help even though I barely did anything aside from allowing you all access to the relic room."

"No, no. This is more than enough, actually. With this branch, we will now have a chance to track them down," Izmir clenches her fist.

Queen Tori nodded and smiled after seeing Izmir's reaction. My guess is that she finds Izmir's behavior similar to hers based on what she revealed to us. earlier. Queen Tanya discussed things with Queen Tori for a while before she left with us. We offered Queen Tori some help in exchange for the branch but she insisted that she didn't need it.

We left after bidding farewell to her but we will stay for one night here before leaving. She then gave us a seal of approval to buy things for free while we were here but we refused to get it. This is a chance for us to spend the gold we have been hoarding for quite a while, we can also get rid of items and things that we don't need while we can also resupply our stocks like food and other utilities.

I also find it rare to see players around and even if there are players, they are more busy finishing a quest and getting out of there, rather than keeping their eye on anything. The reputation of this place is enough to deter the players from staying.

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After the long day of resupplying with the girls, the elves immediately went to action as they started fiddling with the new stuff. They are clearly here to find the location of King Arthur as soon as possible.

As for me, I returned to my quarters. I thanked Atlas for his work and for assisting with finding the branch before resting on my bed. It is a long day but it feels like we are now finally close to the final stop of our journey.

I am still relaxing a bit when a notification appeared, notifying me that the digestion of the Versatile Weapon to the weapon of Lust had finally concluded. I was surprised at the fact that the Weapon of Lust would take this long for the Versatile Weapon to digest. It doesn't take that long for the Versatile Weapon to digest it before but now, it seems he slows down in his digestion more.

"Looks like you are finally back, eh?" I talked to the Shadow Dragon.

"[Indeed. It took me quite a while to digest it as I didn't expect absorbing all of the essence of the power of that weapon would be a lot harder than I expected.]"

"Is it because it involves the lewd side and it invokes your feelings or something?" I tilted my head.

"[No. I can handle those fine and I am not that easily influenced by something this minor to begin with. This is just something that is harder to absorb. It was like all of the new weapons that are part of my power would take a lot of time to be digested now. Even now, I am still exhausted.]"

"That means you cannot eat the other weapon for now."

"[For the first time, I will decline eating for now. It left me exhausted from absorbing the Weapon of Lust and I am not liking it one bit. Hold on to that weapon for now, alright? Maybe a few days or so and I might be able to go back to my hunger and eat it.]"

"I see. Then, have a good rest."

"[Thanks. Don't worry, I can still assist you in a fight and devour other weapons but don't let me devour anything related to my powers for now.]"

I nodded in response and the Shadow Dragon went back to his slumber. As for me, I decided to open up the Versatile Weapon and check the new effects. After surveying it, it seems to have changed quite a bit after its digestion. Not only that but the skill exclusive for the Weapon of Lust has been unlocked. The only weird thing is that the unlocked skills are not only one, but two this time around which was weird as mostly, most exclusive skills are only unlocked one by one and this one suddenly unlocks two.

The stats of the Versatile Weapon have also been significantly increased as well which is not a surprise but the jump was big. For a single weapon digested, multiple things have been unlocked in one go. Is this the reason why the Shadow Dragon felt overwhelmed?

Nonetheless, I still checked the new stats of the weapon and its new function.

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[Blood Covered and Sinful Versatile Weapon]

Weapon Level: 55

[EXP: 1,000/250,000]

Type: Weapon Equipment

Rarity: God Tier

Series: Seven Deadly Sins' Weapon Series

Equippable at Level 0

Equippable By: Versatile

STR: +3500

AGI: +3500

DEX: +3500

END: +3500

INT: +3500

Special Trait: Blood Mark: Every 20 hits, a Blood Mark will be imprinted on the enemy that cannot be cleansed unless the marked enemy will be killed or 5 minutes have passed without attacking that marked enemy. Marked enemies will lose HP based on the damage done when the mark was inflicted and will heal the user's HP by 100 per stack. Blood Mark will stack 20 times. 

Embedded Skills:

1. Regeneration Level 1(Max: 10) - Every Basic Attack will recover 1% of your mana. The recovery rate will increase at every level.

2. Sharpness Enhancement Level 5(Max:20) - Basic Attacks will have an additional 500 damage. The damage will increase at every level.

3. Physical Penetration Level 4(Max: 5) - Basic Attacks will have a 40% chance to ignore defense. The probability will increase at every level.

4. Defense Reduction Level 3( Max: 5) - Basic Attacks will have a 30% chance to inflict Defense Reduction debuff on the enemies. The probability will increase at every level.

5. Double Pain Level 1(Max: 10) -Physical Attack Skills will have an additional 100 damage. The damage will increase at every level.

6. Berserk Enhancement Level 6(Max: 10) - Damage dealt during the status "Berserk" is active increases by 60% and decreases the defense harshly to 60%.

7. Mana Conservation Level 10(Max 10) - Magic and Physical skills that need mana to activate will have a 95% mana consumption reduction and cooldown decreases by 1 second for all skills. The effect will increase at every level.

Special Skills

1. Devour - can devour weapons and armor to level the weapon. It can change its appearance depending on what weapon is previously devoured. Some items and soul artifacts can also be devoured. Devouring the weapon counts as Amalgamating.

2. Change Form - can change to different forms of weapons currently available.

3. Vampiric Lifesteal -normal attacks coming from this weapon can heal the user's HP by 10 every hit. This skill won't activate if it was a skill used, only normal attacks are counted. It can be used in all forms.

4. Skill Extraction: all the devoured weapons with embedded skills on them can be extracted if devoured by the Versatile Weapon. There is no limit to skills that can be extracted and learned but you can only extract one skill from one weapon.

5. Scale of Defense: Every 1000 mana used by the user will generate one stack of Shield that can block 2 physical and magical attacks. Can stack up to 10 stacks.

6. Electric Defense Reduction: Normal attacks can trigger reduced defense to the enemy for 2 seconds with a 1% chance to activate. It can stack up to 5 times.

7. Curse of the Dead: 0.1% chance to cast the debuff [Corrode] to the enemy. It will last for 4 seconds.

8. Mana Regeneration: Normal attacks will increase the mana regeneration to 1% and will stack to 10.

9. Russian Roullete: In gun form, shoot a random bullet that will inflict one debuff from the following list of debuffs [Poison, Paralysis, Sleep, Bleed, Blindness, Skill Seal]

10. Incomplete Rhongomyniad: Fires off a beam of light that inflicts true damage in exchange for half of the HP of the user. (Will change to Rhongomyniad after certain conditions are met)

11. Weapon Attraction: When a weapon from the Seven Deadly Sins series is detected, the Versatile Weapon will resonate and signal the user of the presence of the weapon.

12. Vanagloria: (Pride Exclusive Skill): the user will forcefully transform its weapon into a Shield and Spear form and applies [Taunt] to self. Once attacks are received, the user will receive Invincibility for 3 minutes but cannot move from where they activated the skill and will be forced to remain in position. Once the damage that has been received has been accumulated, it can be used to fire back to the enemy with a 2x multiplier on damage dealt. It can only be used once every 48 hours. (If conditions are met, will transform to The Fallen Star's Pride)

13. Blood Weapon: The weapon will be covered in Blood that will last for 5 minutes. It has no cooldown but it will consume 99% of the user's HP. Double the weapon's current stats and increases the weapon's [Devour] damage.

14. Devouring Hunger(Incomplete): (Gluttony Exclusive skill): Summon the incomplete Devourer of the Abyss that will allow the user to utilize and fight using the Devourer of the Abyss. Has a 35% chance to devour the target whole while fighting a low HP enemy which will result in either a permanent increase of the Versatile Weapon's stats or heal the user's HP. Since it was in an incomplete state, the user can only use this skill 5 times a month. (Once conditions are met, will transform into Hunger of Beelzebub)

15. Mammon's Curse: (Greed's Exclusive Skill): Absorb the enemy's permanent stats and convert them as temporary buffs to the user. The stronger the enemy, the bigger stats can be devoured. Some of the devoured stats will be permanently lost to the enemy and the user will gain the devoured stats permanently. You can gain the devoured stats once every month. The other effect will remain the same. Additionally, every kill will now double the bronze, silver, and gold gained from killing enemies.

16. Song of the Sloth: (Sloth's Exclusive Skill): Plays music that calms the nerves of the enemies who can hear the melody. Allies will be buffed in various effects depending on how long the song has been playing while enemies will get debuffed more the longer the song plays. The enemies will enter a passive state that even normal attacks will not cause them to activate their lethal phase, allowing for a safe attack process. However, playing this song will make the user vulnerable to attacks and the music cannot be stopped until the piece that has been playing has ended. Ensure the user has a backup when fighting.

17. The Pain of Love: (Lust's Exclusive Skill): Every damage dealt to an enemy will inflict a special status called "Love Stack" that can be stacked up to 20. Various effects will be applied depending on how many stacks are currently present to the enemy. Can be activated and deactivated at will. Can bypass immunity to special conditions against monsters once the "Love Stack" has been properly stacked.

18. Love is a Beautiful Pain: (Lust's Exclusive Skill): A comprehensive list of effects that can be triggered depending on how many "Love Stack" has been accumulated to an enemy.

[Further special skills are not yet discovered, please let the weapon devour a few weapons with abilities]

Note: A weapon forged by an unknown material from an unknown civilization. Can devour and change form depending on the wielder's will. Said to be a weapon made for the gods that hold tremendous power but it ends up in the hands of the mortal.

Second Note: Because it has devoured and digested a weapon that belonged to the Seven Deadly Sins, the Versatile Weapon can now be considered to be part of the Seven Deadly Sins' weapon series. The sleeping beast of the weapon has now partially awakened.

Third Note: After devouring and imprinting itself from the blood of the Pendragon, the weapon has partially unlocked the sealed powers hiding deep beneath. 

Fourth Note: Devouring another weapon that belonged to the Seven Deadly Sins increased its power. The Sleeping Beast is getting developed and it's already recovering a partial amount of its powers.

Fifth Note: Requirements not met. Will reveal it once the requirements are fulfilled.

Special Note: After the restrictions have been lifted, its true power has been slowly unleashed. Even the creature sleeping inside is starting to grow stronger as well. No one knows whether it is a bad thing or a good thing. One thing is for sure, the weapon is getting stronger before we know it.

Restriction: Cannot be dropped, cannot be sold, cannot be traded. Bound to the Owner

Bound: Manato Tsukasa

Durability: Null