88. An ominous prophecy
A little over two hours later, the liner departed from the academy and arrived at the port.
As I went down the stairs to disembark, I heard a loud noise from the side.
“hahahaha I’ll go first then I hope you have a nice outing..!”
It was Nivas Perda and his companions.
They came rushing in and were going down the stairs next to them.
“Nemea! See you next time!”
“You..!! Don’t pay attention to him..!!”
“Don’t worry, I’ll be right!”
And it seemed that he was paying attention, but the half-elf girl wasn’t much different from her first one.
Looking at me, she waved her hand, then continued to wave it while receiving attention from another female student next to her.
‘I don’t even think about anything because it’s like that…’
Looking at Ferda, I could see why she said she never gets bored.
But Lucia didn’t like her as she was glaring fearfully at the half-elf female student.
“… I hate him…”
It seemed like the first time I’d ever directly said I didn’t like someone like this.
The academy students who landed at the port gathered together and scattered.
“Lucia, is there a place you want to go first?”
“… There are a few places we’ve found beforehand, so let’s go there first.”
I asked just in case, but it seems there is a place I want to go to.
“Where did you find it?”
“..Yes, go to downtown first..”
Guided by Lucia, she started moving toward the downtown area.
————————————————————————- –
There are several places to be careful of in the downtown area located in the port leading to the academy.
Based on the original story After a month when the freshmen went out, Hayden went through a lot of things in the downtown area and went in and out of this place without hesitation.
As much as nobles deal with a lot of academy students, there was a lot of money in the downtown area, so there were all kinds of shops and all sorts of incidents.
Among the dogs, there were items that help you hunt demons, items that make you stronger… And cursed items.
Lucia unfolded her small folded map and walked up and down the bustling streets.
It was cute watching the map with your head down.
Looking at it, there were several places marked on the map, but it seemed like they were going there.
Before entering the academy, I came here in advance and looked around, so if I looked at the map, I could get there right away, but I didn’t do anything boring like that.
Lucia has prepared to guide you, so let’s leave her alone.
“Huh.. This is a famous arms shop..”
“That’s right, I can feel it.”
‘It doesn’t sound famous.’
Even in the downtown area, the weapons shop located in a back alley is old-fashioned at best and old at worst.
Obviously, the sun was shining bright outside, but inside it was dark, so it was a strange place that I couldn’t see well.
From noble mtl dot com
“Uh.. Is this right..?”
Lucia didn’t even know she was in a place like this, she blinked her eyes alternately between the map and her weapon shop.
“Let’s go in.”
Lucia would feel ashamed of her if I left it out here, so she took her hand and went inside her first.
Isn’t it possible that there may be good weapons in reality that are only on the surface.
And as soon as I went inside, I gave up on that idea.
‘There’s an amulet with a black lizard on the pillar… It’s a store that handles cursed weapons.’
The fact that the amulet of the black lizard, which has the effect of suppressing unpleasant things, is attached to it means that those things are asleep.
A cursed weapon is literally a cursed weapon.
It is very common to have something embedded in a weapon.
Weapons that engrave God’s words to give them ‘sacred power’ or engrave spells to activate magic are common, but cursed weapons are a little different.
Cursed weapons cannot be crafted with the will to craft them.
It’s just a ‘accidental item’ that happens naturally to a weapon that is extremely rare when a horrific event happens.
Scholars have studied many times, but they have failed to create an artificial ‘cursed weapon’.
We figured out how it happened, but we couldn’t explain why.
Cursed weapons have a strong curse.
Curse is the power of this world, such as magic, unlike the demons used by the beings of another world.
Scholars understand that it is a force with a negative nature, the opposite of magical power.
Cursed weapons that contain a lot of curses and emit powerful curses are much more powerful than normal weapons.
Like the aura blade that wraps the aura around the sword, fearsome power constantly radiates from the sword itself, so it is inevitably much more powerful than other weapons that are just lumps of metal.
However, its mighty power is a double-edged sword.
The curse emanating from the cursed weapon makes it impossible to distinguish between friends and family.
The cursed weapon, which emits curses in all directions, attacks not only the enemy like radiation, but also the owner.
It’s not just the owner.
If it is not properly sealed… The curse encroaches on the place where the weapon is placed, and it becomes a land prone to ghosts and undead.
If the black lizard amulet was working properly, it wouldn’t have contaminated the ground, but how many cursed weapons there were was important.
“…..”
The owner was an elderly man.
I didn’t even look this way, as if I couldn’t see straight ahead, and I just sat in an immobile posture.
I couldn’t see whether my eyes were open or closed.
It’s hard to see because of his stooped posture, but I could see his rugged, well-trained body.
“Wow… This is my first time at a weapon shop.”
Although she looked uneasy, Lucia’s eyes sparkled when she saw the many weapons displayed in the shop.
As befits a weapon shop, there were plenty of weapons on display.
From self-defense daggers to one-handed swords, two-handed swords, and exotic blades such as chakrams, there are a lot of weapons attached to the walls and exhibition halls, and next to them are shields, blunt weapons, throwing weapons, and so on, all kinds of weapons that are hard to find without. Did.
Inside the store, the goods were largely divided into two categories: items on display that caught the eye as soon as you entered, and sloppy items filled with large shelves and wooden barrels in front of them.
With just a quick glance, the quality of the exhibits and the objects on the walls looked much better.
“Didn’t you say you’ve never been out of the manor?”
“Yes… The blacksmith doesn’t make unusual weapons… They mainly make items ordered by the Knights…”
Lucia looked at the various weapons as if she was very curious rather than liking them.
She says she likes cute things, but even she has lived holding her sword for a long time.
She either loved the sword or not, but her curiosity was understandable.
“Atlas used a long sword… Often, right?”
“If you want to use it, you can use it all.”
The weapons hanging on the wall were not fixed.
I pulled out the long sword that Lucia gave me from her scabbard.
“Hmm… Not bad.”
My face was reflected in the blue blade.
I tried holding it with both hands, and the center of gravity was well set and it was a suitable sword.
‘It’s not a cursed item.’
Just in case, it wasn’t a cursed item.
I heard it once when I killed a thief who used a cursed item and collected the item, but when I grabbed the cursed item, I felt a unique creepy feeling.
“You used a two-handed sword, right?”
“Yeah.. My family’s swordsmanship requires a large weapon.. I said.”
As Lucia and I talked about weapons with various types of weapons in front of us, our eyes suddenly turned upward.
As we talked, she moved towards the shelf, but the sword on top started to swing by itself.
Then it fell on Lucia’s head.
“What is this again..!!”
I jumped up faster than the sword fell and caught it.
I thought I should land lightly like this, but a chilling energy ran down my spine from the sword I was holding.
‘This… That’s it..!!’
-Kudangtang!!
Bewildered by the creepy feeling, I couldn’t land lightly, so I rolled over with a loud sound on the old wooden floor.
Then several more knives popped out of the shelf and landed on me.
“Atlas are you okay??”
“It’s okay, it’s okay… Don’t worry.”
Thanks to twisting his whole body to avoid the knives, he became like a circus performer.
I stood up and stared at the sword in my hand.
Obviously I felt a chill when I picked it up.
I thought about breaking it like this, but an eerie voice started to flow from the sword.
[It’s a waste of a kick, it’s a waste… I should have died!!]
“Uh..? Atlas What are you talking about…?”
I thought only I could hear it, but it seems Lucia can hear it too.
Lucia’s face turned pale at her mysterious voice.
“Do you hear this too?”
“.. That store owner’s voice… Isn’t it?”
“It looks like that.”
As Lucia trembled in fear at the unknown voice, an ominous voice echoed from her sword again.
[Kiki Kiki Kiki You..! I just avoided the dragon, but I’m going to tell you an unavoidable prophecy..!! You will be stabbed to death today!!]
Hearing that very confident assertion, I blankly stared at the humming sword.
Me?
Being stabbed?
“I’m about to be stabbed to death?”
I haven’t heard anything like this in a long time.