I was but an outer disciple from a sect. Everything was fine if not for that one day. As I was gathering herbs for the sect as a mission, I found a cave covered by vines. In that cave, I saw a dagger.
The blade is beautifully adorned with black and red colors. The blade is black but as it goes to the back side it starts to have a red tint. The handle is blood red with a black gem at the end of it. I slowly reached for it but between every step, I make sure that there is nothing or no one around. Granted it is just a single cave with a single passageway but it doesn't hurt to be careful. As I grasp the handle of the blade, it started to------
I woke up. In front of me are the elders of the sect all of them bloodied, some loss their arms, some have slashes on their faces but they all share a single thing in common. The look of fear, anger, and desperation.
"OUTER DISCIPLE QIN YU, PUT THE DAGGER DOWN!!" ( Elder#1)
"STOP NOW OR WE WILL BE FORCED TO KILL YOU!!" (Elder #2)
What happened? Why am I surrounded by elders? And this power surging through me, it is so much at the same time so violent. Where is it coming from? What is the elder talking about? a dagger? I slowly look at my hand and saw the dagger there. From the dagger, this violent power is being poured into me.
Is this dagger giving me all this power?
"Isn't it what you wanted in the first place, master?" (??)
"?!?....WHO WAS THAT??!?!!"
"It is me, master. The one you found in the cave." (??)
The dagger!?! Why can it talk? How does it have this much power? What happened? I just remember holding the dagger then it went black.
"I just made master worthy of wielding me by killing and absorbing every killed being. Like right now, with my help you destroyed half of your sect. Which helped you advance your cultivation." (dagger)
I can really feel the power. Then memories flooded me. Everyone I killed. My best friend, my sect brothers. Jade, the person whom I admired. My own father. I saw as the dagger drains their vitality, blood, and soul. How it refined it and forcefully made it flow through my meridians. So powerful but it came with such a high cost. I KILLED THEM.
"Master, a little bit more and you can breakthrough to the next level and ascend!!" (dagger)
I could hear the anticipation of the dagger. It wants me to kill everyone to get their power. I feel that it wants power not for me but for itself. I need to warn them. but I could only say a few words as the pain of being forced to breakthrough is now rising from my dantian.
"DAGGER...DANGEROUS....KI.....KI.....KILL MEEEE!!!" I scream at the elders.
The elders looked astonished. Then, they nod. The fear in their faces vanished, it was replaced by determination. They started to make a formation. Then it came.
From the sky, a man came down. I can say that he isn't from here because of his clothing. A black and white footwear that looks like clothing with a leather bottom. Blue pants that have some tear on the knee parts. Then a shirt that has an extra cloth that covers his face like a hood. The footwear and the shirt may have a connection because both have the same symbol, a blue star in a white circle that has some markings near the edge of the inside of the circle. (#notsponsored)
"The Equalizer Dagger, patented, of course, I think it should be around here." He looks at the elders then said " Elders! Have you seen a dagger that is a foot and a half long, red and has a gem in it? " He then looks at me, "How about y------"
His eyes stopped at my hand, looks at me, at the elders and all of the carnage around us then says
"Oops"