The Sword of Corruption – Black Sun

,Human-naaaaa!!!”

I plunge a large greatsword into the head of an imp that bursts out of the bushes.

With that single attack, the guy’s head caves in, and he collapses to the ground.

I pull the sword back and glance at Helena, who’s standing beside me.

It seems like she’s upset that I abruptly ran out of the classroom earlier, saying I didn’t have time.

Helena, with her lips tightly shut, wildly swings her staff beside me, wiping out the demonkin monsters in the polluted forest.

,Hey… So, no, Helena…”

,Yeah.”

,Are you, by any chance, in a bad mood?”

,Yeah.”

I blankly gape at Helena, who expresses her feelings without hiding anything.

The woman wearing a red robe with fancy gold patterns definitely had a different face than Sohee.

Yet, seeing her smile at me absentmindedly, it reminded me of Sohee in real life.

,I’m sorry. Because of the hidden quest… and I didn’t have time to explain in detail.”

Helena’s actions were always more mature than her age, so I seemed to have overlooked the delicate feelings unique to middle school girls.

She crosses her arms at my apology and turns her head away.

She’s making it obvious that she’s sulking, but she’s still using magic to help hunt the demonkin.

Watching her actions, she really looks cute.

Maybe I’ve been playing too many games? I don’t really know what middle school girls of this age do for fun, so it’s hard for me to bring up a conversation with Helena rashly.

That’s because my tastes are a bit, very unique.

,Is it because I only play games?”

,Yeah.”

Sohee is usually busy. She even has a driver who comes to pick her up.

According to occasional rumors, she didn’t even come to school often until last year.

,Th, then! After we clear this quest, shall we go hang out?”

,Where to?”

,U, anywhere…”

At that moment, Helena’s stiff atmosphere relaxed as usual.

Smiling gently, she hurled a massive fireball, turning over the place where the demonkin monsters had just respawned.

Kwaaaang!

,Okay.”

It seems like she’s finally cheered up.

I strolled through the forest alone with Helena.

She seemed happy even in this unpleasant and smelly place, hitting the imps’ heads with her staff while wearing a bright smile.

After spamming magic everywhere, it seems like she’s run out of mana.

,Yap!”

With a cute sound, Helena’s staff caved in the imp’s head.

The imp guy died just like that.

Helena, as a party member, couldn’t see the quest drop items, the demon’s heart and demon’s blood.

She looked at the corpses of the demons scattered around and approached me.

,How much have you collected?”

,I’ve collected quite a bit. I think it’ll be over in about an hour.”

As expected, farming with a party member was faster than farming alone.

I smiled, looking at the demon hearts and blood filling my inventory.

,Are you that happy?”

,Yeah, it makes my heart race.”

,I can make your heart race too.”

Make my heart race, what on earth does she mean?

As I blankly opened my mouth at Helena’s words, monsters started to respawn behind her.

I immediately swung my sword and dashed forward.

,Hiyaaaaaat!”

Kwajik! Kwajik! Kwang! Kwang!

I scream and slash at the monsters’ bodies wildly.

The corpses of the demonkin monsters, scattered in all directions, were mixed with red blood and rolled across the floor.

8:40 PM.

There’s still time left until the shutdown law.

I wore a proud expression as I looked at the quest window that was finally achieved.

,Did you collect everything?”

,Yeah, I collected it quickly thanks to you.”

,That’s good. Is it over now?”

,No! There’s still more left!”

Helena’s eyebrows twitched greatly at the words that there was still more left, but she nodded.

She’s also a Deron player. She knows how important this quest is.

I returned to the capital city with Helena and headed to the place where I met Nerim.

Nerim, as always, was faithfully performing her role as a job change NPC.

As I approached, Nerim, who was sitting on a chair, stood up.

,Did you bring everything I asked for? No, I can tell without you saying. The smell of demon blood is wafting all the way here…”

Keke ke.

With a witch’s unique eerie laugh, Nerim turned her body and said.

,Follow me, I have prepared an altar for you.”

Inside the workshop that Nerim entered, a unique portal indicating a dungeon was formed.

It seemed like I had to go in there.

,Go and come back. I can’t go.”

Helena, who had approached the entrance of the dungeon, frowned and said.

I nodded and jumped into the entrance of the dungeon.

The interior design of the workshop was generally dark.

It had the same appearance as a witch’s house, which is commonly seen in various subcultures.

,Now, come here.”

As Nerim said, I followed her and discovered a large hexagram magic circle drawn on the floor.

As if drawn with the blood of the demonkin, a faint but pungent sulfur smell emanated from the magic circle.

,Hand over the orb and the sacrifices.”

As Nerim requested, I took out the quest items and the orb and handed them over.

She moved slowly and placed the orb in the center of the magic circle.

Then, she slowly moved to the end of the magic circle and began to tear the demonkin’s heart in her hand, spilling it on the floor along with the blood.

Then, the orb placed in the center of the magic circle began to react.

It began to emit an evil aura and absorb the heart fragments and its blood.

,O, oooooh!”

The orb, having absorbed everything prepared, began to scatter an even clearer aura than before.

I could tell without getting close. How strong the aura dwelling inside it had become.

,It’s up to you how you use it. But don’t forget. The promise to give me what’s left after using that orb.”

Nerim picked up the orb placed on the floor and handed it to me.

[Awakened Orb of Corruption]

An orb imbued with an evil aura.

It can corrupt objects with powerful divine power.

Even the Sun God Sola could not resist this power and was corrupted.

Usable item [Holy Sword of the Sun God Sola]

As expected, this quest was a hidden quest to upgrade Sola’s Holy Sword.

There was no such upgrade quest in Deron in other worlds.

I thought I would only be able to draw out shapes and use them, but it seems the developers in this world didn’t want the first world item to be discarded.

Is there any need to hesitate?

I took out the Holy Sword that was enshrined in my inventory and used the orb.

[※Warning: Once an item is corrupted, it cannot be reversed.※]

YES/NO

I pondered as I looked at the warning message that appeared before my eyes.

Without this Holy Sword, I won’t be able to easily cheese the Crow pattern in future raids.

But I can’t resist. It’s an upgrade of a world item.

An item that I couldn’t even see in the world I was in is coming into my hands.

It was the moment I lightly touched the YES button.

The orb floated into the air on its own and flew towards the crossguard of the Holy Sword, scattering an evil aura.

Kwaga ga ga ga!

The divine power dwelling in the Holy Sword and the aura of corruption dwelling in the orb began to clash.

But the divine power on the Holy Sword side was emitting a stronger aura.

At this rate, the orb’s aura seemed like it would disappear.

But Nerim, who was watching the scene, reached out her hand towards the Holy Sword.

Hwaaaak!

The hell mana that stretched out from Nerim’s hand covered the Holy Sword, helping the aura of corruption.

I held the Holy Sword high and watched the scene.

The Holy Sword tried to resist even more strongly as if it was its last attempt.

The enormous divine power dwelling inside burst out as if writhing, but it couldn’t resist Nerim’s hell mana and the aura of corruption.

[Kkigigigigik!!!]

It was as if the sword was screaming.

Then, a huge light flashed without a sound-! and scattered in all directions.

,It seems to be complete…”

As Nerim said. The upgrade of the Holy Sword was over.

The sword that scattered a faint sunlight divine power came to scatter an aura of corruption, and its blade absorbed hell mana and took on a murky color.

The blade wasn’t just changed in color. The blade, which was the size of a one-handed sword, became a little longer, so it was judged as both a one-handed and two-handed sword.

The overall image didn’t change much, but the effect flowing out of the sword was further enhanced, and occasionally black lightning spread in all directions.

In short, it meant it had become an incredibly cool appearance.

[A great divinity has been corrupted.]

[The power of hell is one step closer.]

The world message that appeared when acquiring the Holy Sword of the Sun God Sola also spread throughout.

The message that appeared twice, unlike before, contained an incomprehensible hint.

[Corrupted Demonic Sword – Black Sun]

Strength +170 Stamina +100 World

Maximum health increased by 15%.

Attack speed increased by 20%.

Attack power +1250

Bound item.

Maximum damage increased by 20%.

Level limit 45

Can activate [Proclamation of the Corrupted Sun God’s Sanctuary] once a day.

Can use [Execution] skill

[Black Lightning] is activated with a 30% chance of hindering the opponent’s health recovery effect upon attack.

20% chance to reduce the opponent’s defense upon attack.

When equipped, the favorability with NPCs who worship the Sun God decreases by 2 levels.

When equipped, the favorability with the corrupted reaches its maximum state.

[Proclamation of the Corrupted Sun God’s Sanctuary]

Proclaims a wide area as a corrupted sanctuary based on the wearer.

Increases all stats by 25% during the duration and decreases the defense of all enemies within the range.

Duration 60 seconds

[Execution]

Executes an enemy in a low health state regardless of their remaining health.

Enemies who are executed cannot receive resurrection from a priest, and if they are revived with a normal resurrection, all stats are reduced by 10% for 120 seconds.

Cooldown 10 minutes.

※Cannot be used on boss monsters※

[Black Lightning]

Drops black lightning on all targets within a narrow range based on the wearer.

Enemies hit by black lightning are afflicted with the [Curse of Corruption] debuff.

Cooldown 10 seconds.

[Curse of Corruption]

Reduces health recovery effect by 30% for 5 seconds.

,Uwaaaang…”

The messages didn’t matter. The guild chat started to burn up, but I ignored it all.

Now was the time to admire the new item.

The options of the demonic sword were truly amazing.

I couldn’t help but be amazed.

I held the demonic sword in both hands and swung it around.

Swish- Swish- Shaak.

It felt great in my hand.

There happened to be a large mirror inside the workshop, so I headed there.

All that was beside me was an NPC who only spouted out predetermined lines.

Nerim didn’t understand what my actions meant.

There was no need to be embarrassed. I struck poses that I couldn’t do because I was too busy looking at other people’s reactions and took several screenshots.

,Cool…”

The appearance of a small girl was a bit of a flaw, but even that looked cool.

The red blood flowing from my body and the black aura emanating from the sword mixed together and looked very evil.

Wasn’t it like the appearance of a lord of darkness?

The cloak I was wearing on my back was also black.

It would have been perfect if I had equipped a horn-like costume here.

,Keuheuheu.”

I smiled evilly and fluttered my cloak.

,It seems you’re quite satisfied.”

At that moment, I heard a voice that pulled my mind out of the world of my own.

It was Nerim.

Nerim, who had approached, was holding out her hand to me.

It seemed like she was asking for the promised reward.

,Hmm, hmm…”

There was no need to be embarrassed at all, but for some reason, my face flushed.

I cleared my throat and handed the orb that was left over after use to Nerim.

[Orb with Drained Power]

An orb that contained a powerful aura of corruption.

Now, all the power has been drained.

,It was a satisfactory deal.”

Nerim waved her hand at me while holding the orb in her hand.

It was an order to leave.

I nodded. There was nothing more to do, so I went out of the workshop.

The moment I went out of the dungeon, I ran into Helena, who was wearing a flustered expression.

She was looking up at the sky.

I also looked up at the sky following her gaze. The blue sky had a murky green color that was different from before.

Not only that. A large magic circle was floating in the very center of the sky, as if it was covered with hell mana.