CHAPTER 380: REGULAR’S LAST BISECTION?

[Killing Edge: Upon killing an entity, the curved edge of the scythe will sharpen to a further dangerous degree. This effect will only last for 2 minutes and 50 seconds.]

[Curse of Murder: Each attack made will feed on the entity’s essence and drain their vitality. With each kill made, the user grows stronger to a degree depending on their Tier. However, with each soul taken, a dark whisper will appear to convince the wielder to never stop killing.]

[Stormlash: The blade of the scythe becomes a conduit of electricity. When swung and imbued with mana, lightning would lash out and chain to nearby enemies.]

[Rupturefall: By imbuing a percentage of your mana and with a heavy swing, release a volcanic shockwave that repels both you and your enemy back.]

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Lillian looked over the scythe’s description and blinked the system panel away. She smiled in satisfaction; she now had a new weapon in her arsenal.

Exiting the small chamber of the egg, Lillian weighed the scythe in her hand and found it to be manageable even though it was about the same size as her—unlike a certain black odachi...

Brandishing the scythe, she sent a wave of mana into its shaft and swung it towards a separate chamber in the walls.

As she activated an enchantment, the runes etched into the blade began to glow much brighter.

Bzzt.

Electricity spilt out from the runes like living webs before being thrown towards the aimed chamber.

A wave of electricity shot through the air and crashed into the stone wall with a small explosion, causing debris to burst out and clatter against the stone ground.

From the centre of the impact, electricity snaked out and claimed its first victim.

[You have slain a Savage Wretch, Unborn Barrel Mole]

Lillian hummed slightly, even more satisfied; however, she couldn’t help but feel that she heard something—a voice that was spoken at the lowest possible volume.

Realising what it was, she continued back to clearing out the eggs. But after a while, she looked around and found her surroundings to now be dimly lit by what she assumed to be wooden torches.

Looking back, Lillian found Millis hanging up the torches on the curving wall. She smiled slightly and approached the Heroine with a small whistle of acknowledgement.

"Do you just randomly have torches on you? I thought you didn’t have a spatial storage for that."

"Hm? Torches?"

Millis turned around and held out a handful of seeds, "Nah! They’re just some torch plants. Nothing too extreme as something like that."

Torch Plants were another type of plant belonging to the Trial World, Hearth. Essentially, they were flowers with wooden stalks and would light their own petals on fire in the presence of mana.

This was where it got its name, ’Torch’, from.

Lillian’s face twitched, and her eyes widened at the revelation that Millis just had this type of seed on her.

With a curious thought, she asked with a slight stutter:

"D-... Do you just carry seeds around with you...?"

Lillian’s innocent question caused a reaction from Millis, who seemed awfully offended by the way Lillian looked and phrased it.

"Oi! It works well with mah trait, alright? Don’t judge meh abilities." Millis turned away with folded arms and puffed out cheeks—she was pouting.

Lillian smiled awkwardly at Millis’s response and nodded slowly. Eventually, the Heroine turned around and eyed Lillian’s new scythe with a shocked expression.

"Ooo~! That’s a pretty good-lookin’ scythe ya got there!" Millis leaned in and inspected the dimensions of the scythe, "Did ya boring-ass scythe turn into this?"

"H-hey! It wasn’t that boring looking—"

"Nope. Don’t lie to ya self, Lil’." Millis interrupted with a snicker as Lillian turned away with a tired expression.

Lillian then said:

"Alright... Anyway, help me take out the rest of the—"

But right as she was about to finish her sentence, she found that at the centre of the nursery, three people had magically appeared out of thin air. They were Brexten and the twins.

Lillian was awfully startled by this sight. She recalled that the party had some sort of item that allowed them to escape through teleportation, but it was purely up to chance where they would end up.

To think the three of them would appear right beside her and Millis.

Lillian facepalmed and assumed it was just another one of fate’s doing as she took a glance at Millis to find her also startled by their appearance.

Brexten looked around, wincing as he recalled the metal wires piercing through the back of his armour. After demanding that the Healer of his party get to work, he looked around and muttered:

"Where on Earth are we...?"

His eyes shook as they landed on two large, separate corpses to the side.

One had its body skewered and crushed with earth, and the other had the centre of its chest pierced through, left with a gaping hole that bled.

His face paled slightly.

When he finally recovered, he stood up and found two ladies walking over to him. Brexten, recalling that they were the ones above, gave them a confident and arrogant look.

"You two. I suppose you two know where we are, correct? I demand you to tell me."

Lillian stopped mid-step and gave Brexten a deadpan look mixed with disbelief. Was this man really demanding something at the first sight of her?

Millis, annoyed by the man’s disrespect, said:

"Listen, ya big oaf! Ya can’t be demanding things after running with ya tail in between ya legs, ya damn whimp!"

Brexten’s face hardened. While Millis was absolutely correct, it didn’t necessarily mean he was going to accept it. "What are you talking about? I merely used a teleportation item to get us to a new location! Our appearance doesn’t relate back to cowardness in the slightest!"

Lillian listened to the two back-to-back arguments with an annoyed expression. She gave the twins a pitying look before clapping her hands.

Both Millis and Brexten paused and turned to Lillian, who gave out a concerning piece of news.