Davis kept Lancelot inside his spatial ring. Armaments are capable of surviving in spatial rings.
For this reason, many scholars did not consider the spirit of armaments or artifacts to be true lives. They considered it a sentient manifestation of the item. Many other scholars disagreed, but it was unheard of for an armament spirit to turn into a lifeform or a separate race, so their voices were quickly shot down.
Davis felt it was more like artificial intelligence than a living soul. However, it wasn't artificial but natural. Otherwise, it wouldn't form on its own.
However, he understood a thumb rule for spirits of armaments.
Their manifestation was seen more in the middle of the cultivation stages.
