Well well Well, if it is not another human, a Cerberus strolled slowly, a three-headed beast dog, approaching laston, it then took a sniff, and one of the heads then laughed, "he's scared, he doesn't want to die", the left head then spoke, "his on a vengeful quest, you want to avenge your father", both head from the two sides laughed maniacally.
The head in the middle then spoke in a calm yet commanding tone, "Silence", on hearing the command the other two heads immediately sealed their lips.
He then looked in a certain direction, "Human what level is this human in, a man who seemed to be in his fifties appeared seemingly out of nowhere, but before he could say a word castor responded, "Core 1"
"What!?"
He then turned to laston, "What is your name boy?!"
As usual before this menacing creature, laston felt nothing but fear, "my name is la-la-la-ston"
"Laston? Then laston I will reduce my power level to yours, and we fight!
If you win, we get to serve you, but if you lose, since you already have two of us on your side, I will let you go with a slight burn for wasting my time".
The human who had appeared earlier wanted to say something, but before he could even voice his thought, he was interrupted by the Cerberus, who then growled in an annoyed tone, "not now human"
He then proceeded to shrink his size until he was the size of a full-grown dog, then proceeded to run toward laston.
Laston was scared to the bones, but then realized something, all the strain on his body was gone, the Cerberus approached with ferocious intensity as a dark red miasma exuded from his body.
Suddenly, a blue aura began to form around laston, the human that had arrived with the Cerberus, was gobsmacked as he watched the event unfold, "how is this possible."
Laston on the other hand not knowing what to do decided to do the only thing he had been doing with his spiritual energy which was running, and just like that, he and the Cerberus were running around.
Thro and fro they ran around the space, even finding it hard to catch laston who had no drawback from using his spiritual energy, took this as a form of training.
Previously, when he ran at full speed, he had to close his eyes, but now he was running with his spiritual energy though not as fast as before, but his eyes were open and slowly he was getting used to the speed he was moving at.
"STOP RUNNING AND FIGHT ME! You human I won't serve a coward, Lexy then chuckled, "The almighty splinter cannot catch up to a human at the first level of awakening.
The man that has been silent then spoke, "You are wrong, he is still a mortal the spiritual energy he has been using seems to be leaking from his sealed core, so he can be considered a mortal.
"If that's the case then he's strong right?"
"I wouldn't say that, he hasn't awakened but he has tremendous potential to grow strong, if you both had continued, he would have emerged victorious, and it was already an unfair match to begin with."
Splinter then shrugged reverting back to his enormous size, "Boy you win, I will serve you, don't disappoint me, if you do. I will burn your soul he said as he stared at laston who was still about fifty meters away not daring to approach.
Lexy chuckled seeing his action, "Since we all accept then it's a deal, suddenly they all transformed into orbs of energy and rushed into his body giving him no chance to even think of running.
Laston began burning up from the intense aura which seemed to be merging with his own, and this scene also occurred on the outside with his physical body, different miasma colored white, green, and red from the sword rushing into Laston's body.
Laston's body was undergoing Many changes were as his skin became tougher and his muscles more defined, in-fact any physical defect he was born with was corrected and improved upon.
When Lynx saw the chaotic condition laston was in he immediately wanted to go there out of instinct, but as he got close the white aura pushed him back without hurting him.
After a good minute of intense chaotic miasma revolving around laston, it died down and everything returned to normal the laston opened his eyes and slowly stood up.
"Are you okay" lynx immediately made his way to him, "no am fine apart from the burning sensation on my back am okay.
On hearing this lynx immediately took of his upper robes and just at the mid-section of his spine a dragon with open wings was drawn and the head of a Cerberus and griffin were both situated under each wing, which represents the consciousness of the newly acquired weapon.
The old man remembering their previous deal could only smile in regret, "And here I was thinking you were going to join your ancestors, well, a deal is a deal and this sword has been here for too long"
Laston on paying close attention to the sword saw that the blade side of the sword was blue and the remaining part was black.
The old man had a dejected look on his face, taking a deep breath he said, "If that is all, then the dagger is twenty gold coins, and the sword is two hundred gold coins due to your discount, and fourteen gold coins for the treasure making that a total of two hundred and thirty-four gold coins or do you wish to buy any other thing?"
Lynx then whispered to laston, "That sword is emitting a profound aura, it's bound to attract unnecessary attention, you have to put it away, and since it's your weapon and has been bonded to you, I can't be with it."
"In other words," laston then proceeded to put the sword in its scabbard which slightly reduced the aura exuding from the sword.
Lynx then face-palmed, "Do you by any chance have a storage pouch or ring?
I know this is a weapon shop but considering the fact that you're a collector and you have this amount of treasure without the backing of any faction, you sure are no ordinary man, so do you happen to have any storage equipment? please?
The old man laughed, "Okay, you got me good, a storage medallion if the sword is stored in it will only reduce the amount of aura, but won't conceal it completely, a storage pouch will produce the same result as both of them were not made to store spiritual treasure."
"A storage ring can hold such treasure but that will depend on the quality I happen not to have those, but you're in luck since you want your priced treasure to be saved, I happen to have the perfect storage treasure, a storage bracelet."