NOVEL NEXT Chapter 12: Sword Spirit Flamme!
Aurora piled up the dead twilight poisonous spiders scattered around as much as possible, and after finishing everything, she inserted Flamberge Waltz on the ground while she opened the system interface and prepared to use soul extraction.
[Ding! soul extraction failed]
Aurora didn't feel disappointed when she failed the first attempt; she even had a gleam of joy on her face. There was a way!
If the system prompted that no soul was detected, she was ready to run away, even if she would be "blessed" (cursed) day and night in Claudia's diary afterward.
Aurora consumed mana again to use Soul Extraction.
[Ding! soul extraction failed]
[Ding! soul extraction failed]
[Ding! soul extraction failed]
...
The magic power decreased rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and continuous extraction failures made Aurora's already lacking magic power even worse.
[Ding! soul extraction failed]
Aurora staggered and almost fell to the ground. She heard countless bells jingling in her mind, and the world in her eyes began to spin rapidly. At the same time, an indescribable sense of weakness swept over her.
"What the hell... there will be no such situation in the game when the magic power is exhausted... I can finally understand what those NPCs said about the exhaustion of magic power..." Aurora held the hilt of her sword with both hands and breathed in the surrounding air.
In the game, when the magic power was exhausted, there would be a continuous dim border prompt in the player's line of sight. In addition, a weak negative BUFF would appear in the upper right corner of the HUD.
However, the current situation was completely different from the game.
The magic power was equivalent to the power of the soul, and excessive consumption of magic power would damage the soul and even lead to the annihilation of the soul in severe cases.
After a few minutes of buffering, Aurora finally felt that her discomfort had improved a bit. She checked her current magic power and found that it was only enough for her to release the soul extraction three times again.
"Let's try again..."
Aurora took a deep breath and performed the soul extraction on the twilight poisonous spider's corpse again.
[Ding! soul extraction failed]
"Uerghh!"
Aurora's body softened, and she knelt down on the ground. She felt as if she had ridden a roller coaster more than a dozen times at a time, almost vomiting her stomach out, and her head was buzzing.
It was as if she were being smashed by a sledgehammer right in the head.
"Damn it..." She wiped the mucus from the corner of her mouth and slowly crawled to Flamberge Waltz's side, sat on the ground with her back against the sword, and stretched out his hand with difficulty to aim at the fragments in front of her.
"I don't believe it won't work!"
"Soul Extraction!"
[Ding! Soul extraction success. Obtained low soul core X1]
"Huh... finally... success..."
Auorora forced a smile. The world in her eyes was full of twinkling stars at this moment. Her vision turned blurry, and her body was so heavy that she couldn't exert any strength at all.
Feeling that her body has been severely overdrawn, Aurora hurriedly closed her eyes and rested while hugging Flamberge Waltz. Unbeknownst to her, at this moment, Flamberge Waltz was also slowly emitting a faint light to wrap her, speeding up her recovery time.
"Crack!"
The sound of a branch being stepped on woke Aurora up. She opened her eyes and scanned her surroundings. She didn't realize that she had been besieged by seven or eight poisonous spiders; the nearest one was only six or seven meters away from her.
"They come so quickly?"
Aurora stood up slowly and rested for nearly ten minutes. Although it was far from relieving the exhaustion deep in her soul, at least she felt much better than before.
These twilight poisonous spiders made a hissing sound as if they were communicating with their kind, and at the same time they approached her cautiously.
Although the IQ of the poisonous spider was not that high, in their eyes, the many corpses of their kind lying beside this human being were a clear reminder of how dangerous she was.
Aurora took a deep breath, grabbed the sword with her right hand, and opened the system interface.
"Sword Spirit Call!"
In an instant, several rays of light in Aurora's body rushed straight down along her arms and rushed into Flamberge Waltz.
[Awakening failed, no soul core detected]
"Transformation command! Make a forced summon!"
[A weak soul core is detected, which meets the minimum standard for forced summoning. Do you want to sacrifice a large amount of experience points to forcibly summon the sword spirit?]
Did she have another option? What a bastard system!
"Yes!"
With Aurora's confirmation, the experience value that was so close to allowing her to break through to level 7 dropped rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. When all the experience bars from level 6 were deducted, the system just stopped slightly.
What happened next made Aurora frown involuntarily.
The number 6 displayed on the original level trembled for a while and turned into 5 and continued to drop! Suddenly, she was deducted one level by the system!
And after falling back to level 5, the experience bar was still decreasing rapidly, which made Aurora's heart tighten. If it fell again, it will be a big trouble.
Once she fell back to level 4, the skill points corresponding to that level would also be deducted, and then her sword spirit summoning skill would disappear. Once it disappeared, all these efforts she made would be in vain in an instant!
Fortunately, the experience point finally stopped after it dropped to half.
[Forced summoning conditions have been met, ready to summon]
Intense light burst out from the Flamberge Waltz and went straight into the sky, even the twilight poisonous spiders around who were about to approach were dazzled by the strong light and retreated a few steps.
Aurora unconsciously stretched out her hand to cover her eyes, and the eyes hidden under her hand were full of shock.
She had never seen this kind of phenomenon when summoning the sword spirit before. At most, a magic circle will light up, and then the elemental sword spirit in the sword would be summoned. How can there be such a spectacle now?
In the beam of light, the shadow of Flamberge Waltz became more and more blurred, and at the same time, a figure gradually became clearer.
A pure white arm stretched out through the beam of light and supported Aurora. Under the light, she saw a beautiful girl in a crimson dress stepping out of it. A pair of vermilion eyes shone brightly like the stars but without any emotional fluctuations.
The girl had fair skin and delicate, beautiful facial features. What surprised her even more was the pair of majestic curling horns on both sides of the girl's head, adorning her fluttering long black hair and a tail swaying gently under the frailly skirt.
"Isn't this an abyssal race?!"
Aurora had been shocked to the point of being in a daze. In her several years of gaming career and intensive research on profession, she had never found a sword spirit that can summon a human form, let alone an abyssal species that was one of the upper three races.
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Flamme - 16 years old – Flamberge Waltz Spirit (summoning time: 30 minutes)
Level: Level 5 (bound to player level)
Race: Abyssal
Attributes:
Attack: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Defense: ⭐⭐⭐
(Growth)
Favorability: 60% (trust)
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"Good guy, what is this thing? And what's this favorability about???"
Aurora couldn't help but rub her eyebrow. When did the Demon Sword and the Sword Spirit need players to increase their favorability? It's not a dating sim game!
She didn't know why she could read the spirit's attribute, but it was helpful in her current situation.
Although the attribute wasn't that high, the growth trait surprised her.
The strength of a spirit sword was indicated by how many stars it had—10 was the apex and 1 was the lowest.
The sword spirit contained in the top magic sword Auror had before has the highest attack, 7 stars and defense, 4 stars. Generally, these attributes were fixed at the moment the sword spirit was summoned, but the sword spirit in front of her proved her wrong.
"Master?"
Flamme tilted her head cutely as she asked when she saw that Aurora was still motionless.
"Oh, I'm fine."
Aurora temporarily put the doubts in her mind behind. The time for summoning could only last for 30 minutes, so she didn't want to waste any precious seconds anymore.
She raised her finger and pointed to the twilight poisonous spiders that began to circle them slowly. "Flamme, kill them."
Flame nodded slightly, holding Flamberge Waltz with a flash of red light in her right hand, and leaped lightly like a flying bird towards the poisonous spiders.
"Flamme! You can't use fire attribute attacks here!" Aurora hurriedly reminded behind her.
A sword without any fanciness cut a poisonous sunset spider in half. The moment the sword fell, Flamme jumped back in the air and slashed and killed the poisonous sunset spider behind her who was about to attack.
Aurora's mouth dropped open as she watched the sword spirit slaughter the enemies she had spent so much time and effort defeating.
She saw the shadow of a master-level swordsman in the girl, which made her wonder what Flamme's identity was when she was alive... and why she died and turned into a sword spirit.
"Master, done."
In less than a few minutes, Flamme had killed all the poisonous spiders present, and she expertly flung the blood off the sword and returned to Aurora's side.
"Good job, Flamme. I can't move for the time being, you go over there and help me save someone."
Aurora gestured in the direction where Claudia came from just now, and Flamme immediately rushed towards the place without the slightest hesitation.
Aurora noticed that she had turned to the nearby forest after only a few steps, and after a while, she heard the mournful wailing of many twilight poisonous spiders before they died.
Judging from this situation, she should have wiped out all the poisonous spiders that could threaten Aurora with ease.
[Ding! Congratulations to the player Aurora, who has reached level 6 and gained a skill point]
"I can get experience this way too?"
Aurora, perplexed, quickly opened the system to confirm the next series of killing experience prompts.
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Clank! Clank!
At this moment, Gard was still fighting against the two poisonous twilight spiders. The sword's blade collided with their sharp forelimbs, making a crisp metallic sound.
Although he applied the medicine in time when he lost his left shoulder, it was impossible to completely stop the blood oozing from the wound.
Under the attack of these two monsters, Gard's face gradually paled, and his physical strength gradually failed to keep up. Even now, he would take several breaths every time he swung the sword.
"Hehe... I never thought that one day I would die under such circumstances..." Gard smiled wryly. He had thought about the end of his life before, but now he was being played to death by two poisonous spiders. He really couldn't accept it.
Even if he was desperate to die with one of them, he didn't want to die so aggrievedly.
Thinking of this, a hint of cruelty flashed in Gard's eyes, and just as he clenched his sword and was about to rush to fight desperately, there were slight footsteps in the forest behind him.
Did Claudia come back with rescuers?
Gard looked back and saw a girl in a crimson dress pushing aside the branches in front of her with her hands and coming out.
When Flamme saw the person surrounded by two twilight poisonous spiders, she tilted her head slightly to the right and asked, "Are you the person mentioned by Master?"