Items and artifacts can also be polluted or corrupted by Chaos or other forms of Mana.
The weapon is weakened to its weakest form and then corrupted, then brought back to its most powerful form as a corrupted weapon...even stronger.
The thing was, even for Ego Weapons, they are corrupted fully in the span of a few months...or a year.
But Ame No Sakahoko was being corrupted for more than a decade.
The Upturned Sky Spear withstood the curse of a Demon an entire major rank above it.
The Curse of Azlan, A DUKE RANKED DEMON of the sin of gluttony.
The power of gluttony had been eating away at it for years, but the Ame No Sakahoko remained uncorrupted.
Alan stimulated his mana and then inputted it within the spear, trying to satisfy the curse of Gluttony with his mana, and slow down the spears weakening.
The spear devoured nearly all of his mana, and Alan had to use mana control to restore his mana two times before the spear was fully satiated.