The Overlords Dragon

Chapter 5

"So Titus, how have you been doing with my gift?" I ask the amalgamated Skeleton Mage who's positively humming with excitement.

Titus is a curious Skeleton Mage. Instead of being a simple skeleton of a human-like Ainz, he was instead an amalgamation of different animals plus human. His face was hidden beneath a red, silk gown with two horns sprouting out of it, only three fingers on each hand and two hoofed feet. His body was adorned with all sort of jewels and accessories that seemed positively gaudy but had their uses.

"Oh, Sir Dracul, truly thee art too kind for one such as me," Titus bows his horned head to me, "The axe thou has't brought to me, I've nev'r seen anything like it."

After my 'hunt' a couple of days ago, I gave the axe known as Howler to Titus after showing it to Ainz. Because of the whole scroll situation, most of Titus's duties were generally making sure the Ashurbanipal, Nazarick's library, was in order and as such, he had some free time on his hands.

Ainz wanted to take a look at the axe himself, but considering he and I were gonna leave soon to E-Rantel to pose as humans and try to become Adventurers, he didn't really have as much time as he would like.

To be honest, even though I didn't manage to find any Frost Dragons like I had hoped, that whole day wasn't a total waste like I thought, especially with this axe.

I wonder how Demiurge is doing with those Jötunn?

"Howler is a truly fascinating weapon, Sir Dracul," Titus tells me excitedly as we walk through the towering bookcases of the Ashurbanipal, "But, I fear that tis a worthless weapon for one such yourself or Lord Ainz in its current state."

"Oh? What makes you say that?"

Titus and I walk onto a wide open area of the Ashurbanipal, the bookcases thinning and spreading out. In the centre of the room was a massive table holding the blades of the Howler up in a stand with various tools around it, some mundane and some magical. The blades of ice themselves had various gashes and chunks taken out like someone had mined it with a pickaxe.

"Besides how twas madeth, tis a weak and unwieldy weapon," Titus explains to me and ushers me towards the table while he goes to the other side to grab something, "But despite that, I has't managed to maketh something out of this that I desire thee findeth acceptable, Sir Dracul."

Titus tenderly picks something up from the table with his fingertips and holds it up to the light for me to see.

It was a needle-thin sliver of ice, about as long as my middle finger. Titus comes over to me and holds it out me to take, which I do gently as not to break or melt it.

"[All Appraisal Magic Item]" I cast the spell and my head was suddenly filled with information about the object in my hand and I could feel my lips curl in a smile.

This ice needle didn't have a name like Howler did, but it did tell me what it is. Titus had somehow managed to slice or chip off a bit of the axe and kept the original enhancement on it. Unfortunately, the two per day use had turned into one-time use. It was more of a wand than a proper weapon, but that doesn't matter.

Like Titus said, the weapon wasn't all that strong and no one could really use it due to how big it is. Cocytus, who's probably the largest out of us at 2.5 meters, has stronger weapons that he could wield more effectively than this.

The most interesting thing about this wand-like needle is the fact that I or anyone else didn't need levels in any type of spell caster class to use it. Usually, Wands could only be used by someone from the same magic type. For instance, Wands with Divine magic could only be used by people who had classes in stuff like Priest or Paladin type classes. Certain wands had no such Job Class restrictions.