Clover immediately stood up and walked to the crimson-colored rapier sword. The rapier sensed Clover's walking towards him and shivered. It shivered with mixed feelings: fear, anticipation, excitement, and most of all – desire. Desire to have the man before him to be his weapon.
Clover stopped before the wiggling weapon, and he had just found out how stylish and exquisite its appearance was. The rapier sword was long and had a graceful slender body. The hilt: the upper had a round bowl covering the upper part of the hilt, and the bottom part had a little ball, which connected to the rod bending going to the round bowl, yet it didn't touch it.
As Clover scrutinized the appearance of the rapier sword, he murmured, "Why don't you become my weapon?" Due to the loss of the pair of daggers, Clover doesn't have a close combat weapon at the moment.
As a result of the battle earlier, he realized that the path of the fist in close combat was impractical in most cases. Utilizing the equipment and making it your primary weapon was more convenient, considering that you can gain Mastery from it.
Every Mastery - even though the system wasn't the one providing the benefit – was beneficial when it came to enhancing external means as a fighting power. Moreover, Mastery was effective when upgrading your understanding of external means and making it for yourself.
So Clover wouldn't let the chance slip by and wanted to acknowledge the weapon with sentience to be his weapon. Moreover, the flying knives were only convenient for the time being, but it was only a mortal rank weapon.
At the end of the day, a mortal weapon was only convenient if he was in the mortal stage, but having an advantage with a weapon despite Clover being a loner for a moment, he could have a trump card which was like a lamb having the teeth of a vampire.
As Clover waited for an answer. All he received was tremble desperately which caused Clover to be confused. Body communication was something hard to understand. Moreover, it was a weapon acting the non-verbal communication, so it was natural for Clover to be muddled by the weapon's action.
It was not long for God's Record to step up and act as the translator for both of them.
[Host, the weapon desired your blood essence, and your blood isn't enough to please its desire.]
"Huh? What's the difference between the blood essence and the normal blood?" Clover asked.
[Host, your blood essence is equivalent to your life force, and I warn you to please consider it when thinking of spending it.] God's Record didn't specify the difference between both the subjects asked by Clover. However, she warned him after she explained how crucial the blood essence is.
"Hmm… From the name itself 'life force', it should be the vitality of a human being. If I spend a little with one drop of blood, it will exhaust me a lot. If I spend it a little more, it will lessen my lifespan, and if I spend my blood essence to the point of exhausting every single life force in my body, then I'm good as dead," He muttered, and as he came to the last part – his eyes flashed with a bitter smile.
However, thinking that a single drop of blood essence was enough, he decided to ask God's Record about it, "A single drop of blood is enough, right?" as his eyes landed on the unsettled rapier sword.
[Absolutely.]
God's Record affirmed, as his cold, emotionless voice permeated Clover's mind.
Clover then walked to a tree, where the flying knives soothingly rested on the trunk. He then grabbed hold of a flying knife, before taking it out of the tree, then point the pointed part of the flying knife and stabbed it lightly to his thumb.
Clover wasn't dumb like those idiots on anime, who bit their thumb like an idiot. Which was more convenient and simple? Using their kunai and piercing their thumb? Instead, biting your thumb to the point the skin was shredded messily?
Obviously, it was the former since biting your thumb just to let it bleed could only make your thumb immobile and let you experience excruciating pain.
Blood flowed out of the piercing thumb, and Clover then pointed the thumb downward to the rapier sword. The rapier sword was only more desperately shaking, and even though Clover thought it was anticipation, he felt it was contrary.
As the blood crawled out of the thumb, Clover's focus was on the blood, and the sudden voice of God's Record startled him.
[Host, you forgot that what you are doing is wrong. Blood essence was the mixing of normal blood with your life force. The host hasn't understood your life force yet, and even though this process is right, the blood sipping out of your thumb doesn't contain your actual life force,] God's Record clarified, to clear the misconceptions of the host.
"Hmm, you are right. Then what should I do? Similar to breathing cultivation technique?" Clover enquired, as he was pretty sure that sensing his life force was similar to sensing the Qi, yet he still felt that there was a slight difference between them.
[You are right, host. This is the benefit of breathing cultivation technique, so using the breathing cultivation technique is also a good alternative to use in circulating your life force,] God's Record said.
With that Clover sat in the lotus position, and closed his eyes. A moment after, Clover was radiating a dim light, full of vitality, before it goes back towards his body. Having an understanding of the life force, and how to control it.
Clover immediately control his life force flowing onto his thumb before gushing out of the tiny hole, which was the result of poking the flying knife into his thumb. He then wiped the thumb on the body of the rapier sword, and it left a painted messy, viscous blood.
A moment after, the crimson-colored rapier sword dimly lit, and the painted blood left by Clover slowly thinned, until it was swallowed and became its nutrients to the rapier sword. Clover couldn't resist the drowsiness he felt, and immediately let the feeling swallow him into the darkness.
Although, Clover knew that an ambush from every other direction waited for him, and all of them had a strength of the Rank 1 with five of them at that. Clover for some reason was confident, and let the sleepiness take over his consciousness.
Furthermore, his confidence has the backup of the weapon before him, which their soul was already bounded the moment the rapier sword accepted his blood essence, and made a vow that the man before him – to become his weapon until death does them apart.
The rapier sword not long after; floated amidst the shimmering lights surrounding it, and it was rather conspicuous due to the darkness brought by the night. The ray of light conducted by the moon's existence - didn't reach their position since it was still about to rise.
Zizz zizz zizz
The rapier sword continued releasing humming sound, as it was enveloped by the viscous blood from who knows where it came from. It wasn't long before the process stopped, and the weapon performed an act in front of Clover, performing a pledge to the man before him.
A stuttered voice resounded from the weapon as if the child having their first time talking, "M-M-..Mas...Ter..."
The voice sounded a little feminine and contained boundless emotion, and it appeared that it couldn't control the emotion it was feeling. Furthermore, as the rapier sword voiced out their thoughts, it was accompanied by another boundless light, as if the heavens acted in accordance with the commitment of the master and servant oath.
After acquiring the Heaven's acknowledgment of the bond between them, the rapier sword hummed in contentment, which was expressed by the melody it emitted. It was still floating in mid-air while it continued releasing viscous blood after blood before it was enveloped by it once more.