Eternal Saṃsāra: The Wanderer of Worlds, Book 2

[201] Scattering Around to Save the World Once Again

Chapter 201: Scattering Around to Save the World Once Again

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"So, this is your new sword? It's a beauty," Jasmine checked Caliburn, running a finger through its edges, whistling as blood dripped from her fingers. "Whew~ Fuck. That's so... hot. You have such a hot sword, brat. What's it called?"

"Caliburn, or Collbrande. I call it Caliburn," Aqua said with a chuckle, while he stood behind Ruby and dried her hair with a towel. He didn't know why the girl hadn't dried herself with a spell; she ran here fast, allowing the wind to dry her, but that made her look like a hobo by the time she reached the enclave. She had hurried here thinking it was an emergency, but the battle had already concluded.

So Aqua told her to shower, and now he helped dry her hair. They were in the room where Jasmine and Aqua met earlier, and now a few others of his people were scattered around, but not all. Namely, Yuzuru, Ranefer, and Memmy were here. The latter two were devils, and the former a child, so they weren't attending the meeting that the others were attending with the higher officials of the Elven Forest.

While this village was large, it wasn't the only elven sanctuary, nor the only gathering of race, the Elven Forest was too large for that. A village of dark elves from nearby sent their Chief, a union of all Dryads sent their leader, and likewise, the leaders of many other factions in this forest also attended this.

The Ogre King, the World Serpent, the Jungle Dragon, and many others. They were all in the enclave now, occupying the meeting room, here to meet their creator, the great Goddess, as well as the two foreign Goddesses that came with her; Quetzalcoatl and Ai in her Goddess of Light form. It was a stinky and busy place, and neither Aqua nor his master were overly keen on attending it, that's why they were here.

"Collbrande sounds better, like royalty. How did you get this? It's too good," Jasmine twirled the sword around, slashing the air, and commented. She looked really impressed by it.

"You want it? We can exchange," Aqua said, jokingly, grabbing the sword resting by the bedside. "I've missed holding it- akh!" the sword sent a jolt of pain through his hand and he dropped it.

"...! Are you alright, onii-chan?" Ruby asked in surprise.

Jasmine blinked, as did everyone else in the room. She looked at the sword, and then at Aqua. A scowl formed on her face, "Collbrande is a holy sword too, I can feel it, yet it accepts you. Why is Eldergleam acting up?" She picked up her golden Holy Sword, Eldergleam, and it didn't send any shock. "Huh. Is it perhaps mad at you for abandoning it three hundred years ago?"

"Haha, maybe," Aqua lied. Shit. The sword had only been used by Heros with a capital H. It could sense that he was far from how Holy someone was, and its standards were high. Caliburn accepted him because his history as a hero was engraved in his soul, but the actual sword that he used during those Hero times could recognize that he was far from an ideal Hero. Simply put, it didn't see him as the Hero Seriphoth; to it, he was a different person.

Or perhaps it was even disgusted at his sheer change.

"Sad. Looks like we can't exchange," Jasmine sighed sadly, then turned her head to look at two people in the bed. "By the way, you're still hanging around with demons? That's quite shameless after what happened. There is a little evil black dragon too."

"Hey, I am not evil!" Yuzuru protested. Since she was learning the Path of the Black Flames, she was dated to receive its useless Gold Sign, which was a useless dragon tail that the practitioner received after absorbing a Black Dragon. "A black dragon doesn't mean an evil dragon. Why is black an evil color?"

Such uselessness was one reason I didn't choose this Path, back in the day. However, as a Sage, I managed to twirl the Path a little to manipulate the Gold Sign since I couldn't have a member of my sect be useless. Therefore, when she reached Gold, she not only received a small forearm-sized tail, but she also had black horns popping out of her head, and a pair of small wings that let her fly for a bit. Along with them, she had bright red pupils going along with the theme.