Monsters Core

the night have passed in the beast den, the sun brought back life to the cold black forest that went silent after yesterday's event.

"Roaar!" a monster cried, as if to show that the forest still held life, its mighty roar scared a flock of birds that were in the trees above it.

"hmm guess Its best to stay in here for now" nic thought as he looked to the entrance of the cave, for some reason he did not woke up to find any monsters in the cave which he was sure was to happen after the noise of the fight reached the monsters in the forest.

nic body was already starting to recover it seemed that although he used up some of his spiritual strength it was not as much as he used when he fought argus.

nic decided it was best to wait until he has recovered from his injuries, so he lent against the cave wall and kept his head facing the exit, because no monster did not come in the night did not mean they still would not come now.

a couple hours passed and it was now in the evening, the cave was as silent as it could be, nic injuries were now recovered to the point that he only felt a slight pain.

nic stood up and looked around the cave, he realized that the cave went deeper, he was interested in going deeper because the toad was blocking the path to go further into the cave, when nic thought about it it was as though it was guarding something, he could not understand why such a strong monster would decide to choose to live in a cave that would make it harder to get prey when it could be outside where monsters were everywhere.

nic decided he would take the risk when he was fully healed.

nic then looked back at the entrance of the cave to see a glowing red stone that was the size of a fist at the entrance, it was obvious that it came from the corpse of the giant black snake, it seemed that when these monsters die they leave it behind just like the rock toad, but what was even more surprising was that the black sword was vibrating closer and closer towards it, it looked as though it had a mind of it's own.

"oh no you don't!" nic said as he hovered over and picked up the stone, he was not going to try and pick up the sword afraid that it would start to suck his soul, that was his final request to the sword after all and he did not know if by touching it if it would begin to sacrifice him again, he did not know why but the sword favored the stone over burning away his soul, and stopped before he was burn away to nothing.

he began to exam the stone, but found nothing interesting other than its strange glow.

"why do you want this thing so much" seeing that the sword was vibrating madly on the cave floor.

then he remembered that the sword merged with the stone, "hmm maybe it made it stronger" nic thought as he looked at the sword, their was only one way to find out and that was to use the weapon.

nic suddenly thought of an idea, he was going to grab the sword and if it began to burn his soul away he would stab it into the stone, it worked once their was no reason that it would not work again.

nic grabbed the sword but their was no smoke coming out of it, it seemed that it may have forgotten about Nics request or it was to busy trying to get the other stone.

seeing this nic was overjoyed, he almost thought he would have to abandon something his mother left behind for him.

*swish,swish* nic moved the sword in the air with one hand, but nothing was different, his eyes then suddenly looked at the imprint on the sword hilt, to his surprise it had changed, instead of saying S-17 it was now saying S-16.

"did it just increase in rank" nic thought as he was shock, his mother once told him that cursed weapons all had an imprint of their rank on the weapon itself, phyora was that of a S-rank weapon and their was a total of sixteen S-Rank weapons stronger than it, but now its number had decreased signaling that their are now only fifteen weapons stronger than it.

this rare occurrence only happens when the weapon gets stronger or a weapon more powerful than itself have been destroyed.

nic eyes went back to the stone in his other hand, "to be able to increase cursed weapons rank, kingdoms would kill for this information" he thought.

he then pierced the sword into the cave floor and held the stone with both hands,"if its able to increase a weapons rank its supposed to be able to do something to me" he looked at the stone for awhile, he tried all sorts of ways to merge with it but it did not respond.

"should I just feed it to the sword" nic thought as he looked at the madly vibrating sword.

"no, if it can do it so can I" nic thought as he closed his eyes and focus on the stone in his hands, he began to sense a tiny spark of energy from within his hands, he open his eyes in confusion but the stone was still their.

he did not think much about it but then closed his eyes again and sensed the spark in his hands, he was relieved that he was not seeing things, the spark was red and gave off a light that illuminated its surroundings, he then thought of trying to move the spark, their was no movement at first but then it began to move slowly side to side.

seeing this nic smiled and then began to move the spark towards him, it moved slowly until after some time it entered his body, he then looked within and seen that it was orbiting the giant clock within his gift space, tiny bits of energy was seen slowly pulling out of it and flowing towards the clock.

he opened his eyes to see the once shining stone was now completely black as if it was nothing but a piece of coal.

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Author here: from today forward chapters would be no less than 1000 words thank you for reading.