SSS-Rank Engineer: Only I Can Create Legendary Weapons

I would have been better off in life if i didn't have to watch that.

Percy scrunched up his nose and ran towards his Spellbolt, chanting as he moved. Meanwhile Sebas Basker remoulded his sandy body.

"Drive of the world, swift and free, Rush the gale, surge through me."

The spirit appeared around him, swirling red and green lights that calmed his beating heart. As [Tailwind] bloomed around him, Percy couldn't help but wonder why no spirits surrounded Sebas Basker.

Every spiritmancer in the room was surrounded by glowing dots. George and Hugo had earth and wind spirits around them, while their enemy, Griffon, leader of the Whitemoon, had wind spirits too.

The man from House Eurides, Lethel, had so many fire spirits around him that it was blinding Percy. His attacks were fast and white-hot, yet they didn't set the room on fire.

Some magical reinforcement

The situation was dire, especially considering that Lethel seemed to be keeping up with and even suppressing Thalos, who kept glancing at his son. Percy whispered his next spell under his breath; he needed to assure his father that he was alright.

"Crucible of destiny, painful and with dread. Unleash your wrath, destroy my enemy."

This was simply a test shot so he didn't load too much spirit energy into it. But a straight plume of flames erupted from his hands and exploded against Sebas's regenerating face.

After that, he raised the Spellbolt and released a disabling shot that made Sebas's body vibrate like sand on a loudspeaker.

"Stay down, weirdo," he muttered under his breath, circling the man. He was tempted to turn and shoot at Griffon, who wasn't very far from him. But the Whitemoon leader and Hugo were tied up in a fight far too fast for him to keep up with.

Lethel's the one I should be worried about… this heat.

The fire spiritmancer's flames radiated through the air even though Percy wasn't the one being attacked, searing his skin and making him sweat uncontrollably.

His own attacks, however, couldn't even hurt Sebas, who was laughing as the disabling shot fizzled out and his body became whole.

"What an interesting weapon, ineffective though," Sebas said. "You truly are talented; there's only one child that I've heard of as talented as you."

Sebas stretched a hand and a pillar of sand shaped like a hand rushed towards Percy. He barely managed to escape as the sand crashed into the wall with enough force to push him through the air.

He raised the Spellbolt and fired two more disabling shots at Sebas, but this time the man avoided them, opening two sandy holes in his body to let the blue orbs pass.

It was obvious that he was wary of the attack.

They both stared at each other and Percy started speaking in an effort to throw his opponent off.

"Who's the kid that you know that was as talented as me? Sounds like a bit of an overstatement."

"Being humble is a virtue, young one," Sebas warned. "Perdix was a genius with great renown in the myths."

"I don't take advice from criminals, but Perdix was impressive," Percy countered.

He released another disabling shot, dodging as Sebas reached for him with that titanic sand hand, but he managed to dodge in time.

It felt like Sebas was just playing with him though; the sand creature had to have other, faster ways to attack. Right now Percy was dividing his Fighting spirit between his feet and eyes, but it felt inefficient.

After what Thalos taught him about mantras and efficiently using spirit between his sword and arm, he felt he had a greater understanding of trying to shape his Fighting spirit around his body.

Like how he sharpening his spirit around a sword, he would need to accurately guide his spirit towards enhancing his eyes. He focused his eyes on Sebas' hand as it casually swept it towards him.

The hand turned sandy and expanded in the next instant, and a wave of sand was rising from Percy## left. No space to dodge, and too high for him to jump over. He took in everything quickly and made a decision.

He turned the Spellbolt towards the wave of sand and shot a disabling shot before closing his eyes. The blue orb clashed with the sand wave.

As he expected, the vibrating mass of the spirit energy weakened the cohesion of the sand, and he passed through the wave without feeling like he had been run over by a truck.

Sand scattered over his skin and into his clothesSebas couldn't see him right now, so this was the best time to shoot.

He squinted through the sand and aimed.

CRACK!

A blue flash of light flickered over the velvet rugs before hitting Sebas in the chest. The disabling shot spread through his sand body like a blue wave, forcing Sebas to focus on keeping his body together.

Percy spat and brushed the sand from his face, thoroughly disgusted with his strange opponent. So he shot the man again, another disabling shot hit Sebas in the chest, making him stagger.

He put his hand in the bag on his shoulder and pulled out a Misalignment bomb, hiding it in his closed hand.

"Do you mind just dying?" He asked.

Sebas turned his head slightly, a small grin shining through the light blue vibration on his face.

"Do you think this is enough to stop me?"

Percy was about to shoot him again when something dragged him forward. The sand in his clothes pulled him towards Sebas, who stretched out a hand and laid it on his shoulder.

Percy groaned; the vibrating sand felt like it was tearing into his skin.

"I can always reach you, but I do not enjoy using force against children," Sebas mused, holding on to him.

"Like Ramona?" he growled, holding back the grunt of pain in his throat. "Where is the child you're sacrificing to your snake god?"

"Where she's meant to be. At the bottom of the temple, communing with the vast amount of spirit energy there," Sebas explained, the blue glow of the disabling shot fading. "She will use that energy to complete the ritual and summon our Lord Python."

"After he destroys her soul, will you think you harmed her?"

Sebas raised an eyebrow, then the realization flashed in his eyes.

"Oh, no, no, Python will not inhabit her body. Her form is too weak. Our lord will enter her womb and be born in a few years."

Percy just stared at him for a moment, the sounds of battle in the room faded from his ears.

Ramona was at most twelve years old at this point.

Sebas' smile made him sick to his stomach.

"Fuck you," he raised the Spellbolt, but Sebas grabbed it; So Percy used the chance to throw the Misalignment bomb into Sebas' weakened body. The sticky bomb sank into his sandy body.

Then Percy channeled his entire spirit into his legs and kicked off Sebas's chest to escape the hand on his shoulder.

Midair, he tapped the shield magic tool on his hip and touched the metallic disk trigger on the other side, filling it with spirit energy and activating the bomb in Sebas's chest.

"Hahh, you can't kill me," Sebas sighed. "Can't we just have a civil—"

The bomb's explosion silenced his disgusting voice, scattering sand like shrapnel. The magic tool he touched first activated a shield on not only him, but Thalos and the others too, absorbing the heat and sand cast around by the explosion.

Not sure how much time this gives me, but I have to get down there and stop the ritual. The bottom of the temple must be where anything that stops moving goes.

I have to let the ground swallow me. It's the final test.

"Dad! I'm going to do something that might be dumb," he shouted to Thalos. "Don't worry about me."

Thalos only had a second to glance at him before having to dodge five white-hot lances of flame. Percy ran towards the stairs; he could only get taken there.

But before he could put down his foot, the sand surged and wrapped around his waist, dragging him back.

A mouth formed from the blackened sand and Sebas's body slowly reformed with it.

"Ahh, Damn it," Percy cried out as the burning sand seared his skin.

"Not so fast, Perseus. Without Earth magic you'd never pass the trial to get to the bottom. You'll be crushed by the earth, and I'd feel very—"

Thalos cut him off, literally.

In one crimson flash, Thalos struck twice—one slash to free Percy and the other slicing Sebas's head in half.

Lethel sent a huge fireball at all of them, and Percy jumped onto the staircase before it landed.

The moment his two feet touched the ground, they sunk into the stone like it was mud, and the next second he was falling and being crushed by stone surrounding him from all side