[ Abyss Tower, 12th Floor.]
" He's not coming with us for now, isn't he? "
" That bastard! " Raiden says as he asks why the hell Ragna had to stay behind while he can also destroy the enemies up a head on the Top Floor.
" Don't be so judging, Raiden. " Battle Maiden says to him as she summons her [Judgment Libra].
" Oh great, the Divine Judgment Toy is summoned, how wise, Battle Maiden. "
" Do you have to summon that thing every time we're talking about what the brat does!? " Raiden asks her.
" Just save it for judging Adrian, would you please!? "
" Stop worrying about the brat's decision to work in the shadows, that p*ssy will be fine!!! "
" Hey! " Kara slaps Raiden's head for saying the word.
" Stop saying those things, it's inappropriate in front of us! " Kara says to Raiden while being sullen.
" Grhh, don't give me that attitude, I'm the one who has this mouth, I can say whatever I wa...-!!! " another hit from Kara to his face, Kara was really furious with Raiden at the time.
During that slap, Raiden suddenly awakened a memory, a memory from an unknown period of the previous Timeline where it shows that the very same thing happened right now, the memory shows him also being slapped by Kara, her lover in the previous Timelines for saying some s**t things in front of her.
"( Grkkhh, woman... )"
"( They really love to get triggered so easily, huh? )" Raiden thinks while rubbing his slapped face while Inquisitor Kara took her eyes off him as she closes it, making a defensive posture for she is having a bad mood with Raiden's behavior.
"( Great, she's in 'that' kind of mood, now!? )"
"( Oh, blessed me... )" Raiden says as he then approached the door of the ascending lift that will take them to the Top Floor.
" Adrian Waterson is up there, right? " Galen says as he knocks both of his hands, equipped with a Glove Weapon that Ragna borrowed.
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< [Item: Hard Rock Hand Hardener Clubs] >
< Item Class: A >
< Type: Hand Weapon>
< Attack: +4.500 >
< Defense" +4.500 >
< A 'Ki' made weapon, purchased from the [System Store]. >
< Grants Ki Burst effect >
< Can be equipped, enhanced, stored, but can't be sold. >
< - Effect 'Ki Burst': Increases the Attack explosively by 45% and had CRIT Rate 35% if the item is imbued with Ki. >
< - Effect 'Hardener': Before the battle, knocking both weapons to each other will increase their status four times more than before. ) >
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Galen then knocks the hand weapons onto each other, slowly empowering and heavily buffing the very weapon before he comes in. As he knocks it, Raiden gets so irritated that he can't hear the knocking voice for too long.
" Shut it, will you! you're too loud! " Raiden angrily says to Galen which made Galen stops and as he stops, the four of them open the door and prepare themselves to ascend to reach the highest place inside this very Tower.
Before the four go up, Inquisitor Kara and Battle Maiden hold their movement and looked behind them for a while for some reason.
" C'mon, we're going up! " Raiden says as he tells the girls to not fall behind them as they all go up to the Top Floor where they will meet the person they should defeat in this Tower.
While ascending themselves, they prepared their senses and also already empowered themselves with their own powers.
"( It seems it's time for me to not hold back... )" Battle Maiden thinks to herself as she then opens her blindfold.
"( I need to see all of this..., I can't close my eyes anymore. )" the Maiden says as she puts the black blindfold in her pocket.
"( My goddess had given me this much power, even going out on her way to give me this [Divine Sight]. )"
"( And also... )" Battle Maiden looks at her sword, her sword is upgraded, thanks to Ragna forging it with the help of Ragna Twelve and Ragna 100 inside the System which they decided to take the Battle Maiden in for a while.
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( Battle Maiden's perspective. )
" Your sword is made from Divinium which is why it can't be destroyed no matter how much pressure an attack can give thanks to the Divine Metal's great durability. " Ragna 69 says as he explains it to me.
" I see, so why my sword needs an upgrade or that's what you called it? "
" It's because your sword here is too bland. " Ragna Twelve says as he touched it.
" This sword is given by Athena, isn't it? "
" I can see from how it was forged... "
" First forged by Hephaestus and then Athena gives some of her Divine Power to make it more durable, right? " Twelve asks me again which I only respond by lowering my head, I can't deny it, he says the truth for that's how the sword was made, my goddess told me so which is true for any Divine Weapons that came from Olympus.
" I stand corrected, then... "
" I must say the sword is powerful and can hold so many Divine Power if you imbue it. "
" But the problem is, it's just an imbuement sword with no other effect whatsoever. " Twelve says as he then opens the
" Open your eyes very often, O Maiden... "
" You're not blind anymore, you have eyes now. "
" Use it better, will you? " he says to me as I opened my eyes again, like before, as I opened them, I felt so dazzled as the 'Screen's light enter my very eyes. Guess I'm not used to UV screens at the time, for this was the first time I used my eyes to ever see electronic screen's before.
I tried to see the texts, I tried to read them properly by utilizing what my goddess taught me as I put my fingers upon those texts while trying to learn how to read a word normally for the first time while still using my braille reading way to help me (touching the text and read it while the hands help her know what alphabet she's reading right now).
After a long time, I read all of the texts, and I realized what Ragna Twelve is offering me, which is...
" You're asking me to decrease my sword's durability!? " I asked Twelve in a high tone, I was quite furious at him for I can't get the idea for him to just weaken the best feature that my sword had, its great unbreakable durability.
" Yes, Maiden... "
" I'm asking you this in order to upgrade your sword, giving it more effects offered by the System. "
" You'll need those upgrades. "
" But... "
" You must first choose, which upgrade you want. " Twelve says to me as I looked at the screens for a long time to decide.
I understand his reasons, he was true that my sword will only work if I imbued it with the Divine Powers my goddess gave me before letting me loose in this place. But still...
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Battle Maiden's mind had returned to the present, as she holds her upgraded sword by sacrificing its great durability for more abilities she could use in this battle per Ragna Twelve's advice.
"( I hope this works... )" she says as they arrived at the top floor where they arrived into that place.
" Why so silent...? " Galen says as they arrived.
" Of course, it was dark silent... " Battle Maiden says as she then lights up the whole place with her Divine Powers, revealing what lies behind the dark.
A great horde of Demonic Monsters that had awaited them.
" Wow, the hell... " Galen says as he sees those things, those demonic things unlike any other he sees on the Floors below.
As he gazes at all of it, a clap can be heard, a clap that greets the four into that place.
" Welcome, welcome... "
" It seems we finally have other survivors coming into this place. " Adrian says as he greets them with a crown on his head.
"( That's )" Raiden says as he sees the crown in Adrian's head.
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Extra:
The crown is from Chapters 106 & 130.