Chapter 114

Chapter 114 – Durandal’s Magic Bow

To be blunt, this was the pinnacle performance of a weapon custom made by individuals . Mass-produced rune weapons were normal weapons that were able to conduct soul power . For customized rune weapons, they were made to be compatible with the specific wielder’s soul power frequency . This allowed for greater exerted power .

Professor Moore was an outstanding figure among the Federation’s current generation . Yet, the rune weapons produced now couldn’t reach the same standard as their dark era counterparts . Some said this was due to the loss of certain technologies, while others said it was due to a change in hyperdimension energy .

There were many confusing and diverse theories, yet every rune grandmaster placed those old weapons as their target . The reason why those weapons were so well-known across the world wasn’t due to their wielders, but their creators .

In fact, the reason why Tianjing Academy could retain its ranking amongst the 50s was largely due to the rune department’s high level of achievement .

“The second type is the soul transformation class . Simply put, there is no direct relation between the quality of forging used and the birth of divine weapons themselves . This is because those types of weapons are mainly a result of endless nourishment from the powerful soul power used by their wielders, coupled with a tempering of countless battles which supplemented the weapon with the life force of many mutated life forms and dimension organisms . These factors led to the creation of a weapon’s soul, thus giving them the status of a divine weapon . ”

Moor smiled . Most of the students weren’t asleep now and were paying rapt attention to his ‘stories’ . In fact, this divine weapon was useless to normal people . He could only paint a very large and optimistic picture so that his students could yearn for the future . This was one of the duties and responsibilities of a teacher .

“Naturally, for a divine weapon, this creation process is very slow, arduous, and complex . It also requires a bit of good fortune . An example of a fortuitous event would be Durandal Magic Bow which student Wang Zhong raised . ”

Wang Zhong was still a ranged soldier after all . Furthermore, he had taken the bow and arrow path and had trained in it for the past year . Due to this he had paid no small amount of attention toward those famed ranged combat experts in mankind’s history . The most mysterious of them had been the wielder of Durandal Magic Bow .

“Duran had been the name of Randal’s soul beast . Using modern terms, Randal would have been considered a soul beastmaster, in addition to being an outstanding archer . He was a first generation soul beastmaster inside the federation and a genius at that . It is said he possessed the strength to summon Duran for extended periods of time when he was barely seven years old . They were the best of friends, as well as the best of partners, and they both made numerous outstanding achievements for the Federation .

“One day they accepted an expedition mission . Due to receiving an incorrect report, Randal’s squadron encountered an inconceivably powerful enemy; Tali’s Demon Bee Queen’s Hive! Possessing an extremely fast speed and proboscises that couldn’t be blocked, along with a small and nimble body shape, the bees had almost completely wiped out Randal’s squadron . ”

When Moore reached this part in the story, the entire classroom was silent . Even Wang Zhong was unable to take his eyes off Moore . The knowledge he’d searched up in the library had been limited and definitely wasn’t as detailed . Information in the Freedom Federation was split into different classifications and clearance levels . Only those with high clearance levels were able to read and understand more of the secrets inside higher grade sources .

“If it hadn’t been for Duran’s resistance, then Randal would have died long ago . Even still, the price he paid for his survival was his eyes . The speed of his arrow couldn’t match up to the speed of these Demon Bee Queens . Furthermore, Duran still had a summoning time limit . If he were to disappear, Randal wouldn’t have had any other path left for survival .

“In this extremely critical and desperate moment, Duran made a choice that has baffled innumerable scientists to this day . He fused with Randal’s rune bow and remained in our world perpetually . In addition, so long as Randal wielded that bow, he moved as though he possessed another set of eyes . This should actually be called ‘Mind’s Eye’, as every minute and faint surrounding detail was unable to escape his awareness .

“One man and one bow then started a slaughter of the entire swarm of Demon Bees and eventually became glorified as the number one archer in the Federation . ”

A demon swarm was still a terrifying existence to this day and to the current Federation . Everyone could only imagine how magnificent a scene it would have been . Moore’s storytelling roused the blood of this group of youths and all of them wished they would one day become a hero in this way .

“Everyone knows that hyperdimension life forms exist in our world only as a projection of their true energy body . Even their so-called intellect is just an imitation of us, like a kind of talking parrot . Yet, Duran left us with boundless wild and fanciful thoughts . We are unable to imagine exactly why sort of price Duran had to pay for his action . The only thing we know is that Randal was unable to summon Duran since then . This matter sparked debates and research among the countless researchers of the scientific world . Although this is just an example, it is still the most powerful attack against those who insist that hyperdimension life forms have no emotions and no intelligence . ”

Wang Zhong was somewhat enthralled with Moore’s storytelling . Durandal’s origin story had unavoidably made him think of that little clown Simba . He didn’t know if Simba was a hyperdimensional life form, but he should be . Only hyperdimensional life forms could possess such powers . Yet, Simba’s intelligence had already far surpassed examples of the other hyperdimensional beasts he knew of . Furthermore, Simba definitely wasn’t imitating such intellect like a parrot .

Whenever he spoke of the biographies of the Ten Great Divine Weapons, Professor Moore sighed with obvious regret a considerable number of times . He was a military nut that truly loved rune weapons . Those that were called the Ten Great Divine Weapons by him weren’t only constructed powerfully, but also had formidable legends and figures behind them . To him, it was insufficient to only judge them purely through power .

“Wishing to commemorate the friendship between Duran and Randal, later generations named this magic bow as Durandal Magic Bow . Anyone who wields it can temporarily possess the power of Mind’s Eye,” said Moore . When they heard this, the ranged soldiers present couldn’t suppress their calm . This fucking thing was too heaven-defying; it was a truly divine weapon!