I will warn you, any weapon in this room, has a consciousness of its own.
most of them are vicious and vengeful so I will recommend you leave this room; I don't want to dispose of another supposedly promising corpse.
But if you insist then who am I?
Laston looked around the shelves and some weapons were producing colored haze around them, some blue, some black, some pink, but none of them on the shelves seemed to be with the aura that attracted him.
Following the aura of the sword into a space in the room he frowned, I hope you don't think I am crazy but in this position, where I am standing on currently is there anything here?
The old man looked at Laston with mouth wide open and bulging eyes, then said surprisedly, "Can you see the sword?"
Laston looked the old man with a confused face, there's no sword here obviously! But there is an aura that attracted me here, and none of these auras from the shelf match that aura, but it seems to be coming from this point.
The old man then pulled a lever, and just Infront of Laston, the floor was raised to a platform, and well and behold a sword could be seen, but it was put in a concealment formation.
The old man grumbled as he saw the sword, "500 years ago when I was in my prime, this sword was found in Crimson Nexus, one of the seven kingdoms in a deserted plane, I don't know whether it was born there or if the previous owner had perished there, but this sword has been my highest lost with the highest mortality rate in my store.
Due to being a collector I bought the sword for about 1000 gold coins, expecting to sell it for a higher price, but the consciousness that dwelled in that sword seemed to be powerful, the last person that tried to subdue the consciousness evaporated, some were left with a burnt palm or hand, but they mostly end up dead.
In lynx mind, "this sword was dangerous so it was not worth it, but what he heard the next second almost made him vomit blood.
"Can I try it" the old man then laughed and said, "don't say I didn't warn you, in-fact if you are able to subdue it, I will be giving you an eighty percent discount because it has been a pain in the ass, but I highly doubt you will succeed.
Well, the sword is not cruel, from what the previous contenders say it only judges the heart.
Lynx then face-palmed, "laston its not worth it, just forget about it, they are many other swords here you can choose from.
Laston decided to heed to lynx words, seeing this the old man frowned, "you only need to pour your spiritual energy into it and I have a treasure that can do just that, but it will cost you fourteen gold coins,
Laston then glanced at lynx with a pleading gaze.
Lynx then shrugged, "do what you want, I did try to warn you"
The old man then retrieved a golden talisman and said to laston, "you seem to have just awaken, pour your spiritual energy into this talisman and I will put it on the sword.
If you don't know how to control your spiritual energy just do a burst, I will try my best to capture some of your spiritual energy into the talisman.
Laston then proceeded to close his eyes and the next moment his spiritual energy leaked into the talisman it then lit up.
On seeing this, the old man then quickly waved his sleeve and moved the talisman to the handle of the sword, after a few minutes the sword began to tremble, after that the talisman shone a green light.
"The sword has not outrightly rejected him, at most he will end up with minor burns"
Lynx frowned, "then what was the essence of the talisman, it was useless"
"Boy, if he had laid his hands on that sword and was rejected, I don't think he would be able to be saved.
Meanwhile, in the middle of their argument, laston shouted, "Here goes nothing"
Before they could react, he held the handle of the sword and pulled it out of the suppression box then turned to Lynx with a cheeky smile with the sword in his grasp.
Just then he fell to the ground, but the sword was still firmly in his grasp, lynx quickly made his way to Laston, but before he could reach out to him, the old man stood Infront of him.
"Unfortunately, I won't want to dispose of two corpses from my store today, so I prefer you stay put, what just happened now is the swords doing and if you plan on interfering, you will get cut down"
Although it might act like it's picky, in actual sense, it's eliminating people with low compatibility, if you go close to him then you're a threat to its goals, or else you have enough power to subdue the sword I suggest you stand down.
Lynx was seriously frustrated, "You seem strong so surely you could defeat the sword, the old man then laughed, "I am a hero at the third level, and I have seen a hero at the sixth level die at the hands of that sword, so don't look at me.
Meanwhile, in a pitch-black place, Laston had stood up, "What happened, I was in the sword room and now am here, he proceeded to walk about thinking about what had happened.
"Am I dead, I was with that sword in my hands" he said seemingly talking to the empty space.
"No, you're not dead" a voice from nowhere answered his question,
he turned in circles, "show yourself," he said in a terrified voice, the unknown voice then responded in a mocking tone, "You haven't seen me and you're this shaken up, are you sure you want to see me?
You're pretty lucky I was the first one to notice you If you had met the others, trust me, you will feel true despair.
Laston then understood the situation better, "Are you the consciousness that resides in the sword?
The unknown voice laughed in amusement it took you that long to realize you must be pretty dumb, and yes am one of the consciousnesses that reside in this sword, now isn't that cool, well get ready I will show myself now, don't faint boy.
A lion with the head of a mastiff and wings could be seen, the size of two tanker trucks.
When Laston saw this, he instantly wanted to take off, but the voice came again, "Calm down boy, I am not that ugly, and if I wanted to hurt you, do you think you can escape me?
Laston on listening to the beast stopped trying to run away, but his body was visibly shivering which was caused by the immense fear.
The beast could only laugh in amusement, you came to be my master, yet you're scared of me, you humans never cease to amaze me.
"What is your name young one, "my name is laston"
"Well, laston, I go by the name Castor, my consciousness was born within this sword, so why do you want to become my master"
Laston then said in a shaken voice, "I didn't want you to serve me or anything like that, I felt like the sword was calling out to me"
"Is that so", castor smiled, "okay that's a first, show me your aura"
Laston then closed his eyes, shortly after his aura was released, he opened his eyes, castor mumbled inwardly, core one, "You just awakened, those other two won't like a weak master, though your aura seems promising, you have a good heart but I can't do anything until the others come.
After that statement, a fierce aura blew through the surroundings, and a booming voice could be heard, "Who is the unlucky bastard that picked the sword"
A dragon was immediately in sight soaring through the sky, the crystals on the scales seemed to be radiating with energy.
A white dragon with blue menacing eyes, it then starred down at laston, what's your name young lad
"La-la-lasto-ton, "I see you have a good heart with outrageous ambition, you have won me over", she then shrunk in size till she was the size of an eagle, then flew on top of Castor's head, "You can call me Lexy".