“Why? Why can’t I even pull out a sword?”
After some time, Tyler was lying exhausted on the ground and was breathing heavily while showing a disbelieving expression.
Never mind Tyler, Even the nearly level 80 Terrance gave it a try. With the amount of strength he used, he shouldn’t have had any trouble even pulling up the floorboard that the sword was stabbed into, and yet even he wasn’t able to pull the sword out, a fact that quite shocked him.
By this point, Shien had already gotten the old book that Terrance spoke of and had finished reading through it.
After he finished reading it, Shien’s brows were deeply furrowed and remained that way for some time. Only now did he finally let out a sigh, placed the book away, got up, and headed over to Tyler.
“Of course you’re unable to pull it out.” Shien spoke knowingly, “Never mind you, even if you looked across the entirety of humanity, the number of individuals capable of pulling this sword out can be counted on the fingers of one hand.”
As a Holy Sword that was exclusively for Heroes, born from the very concept of “Hero”, it’s completely impossible for any normal person to wield it.
It’s because it will only release its power and allow itself to be used when it detects the magic power of it exclusive wielder.
If it’s not the exclusive wielder, then even under the sealed state, it’s still not a Holy Sword that anyone can take up.
Why was Lucy known as the Hero of the Modern Age?
It’s because she was recognized by the Holy Sword, thus allowing her to draw it.
Only by gaining the recognition of the Holy Sword can one easily draw it and use it normally. Otherwise, even for someone like the Demon King or the Highest God, while they might be able to forcefully lift it via brute strength, they would still be absolutely activate the powers it should have.
And this is only for a Holy Sword like Mitra’s, which managed to remain in the world due to special circumstances but had already lost its exclusive user.
For one like Shien’s, where the Holy Sword’s master still remained in the world, then not even a Modern Hero like Lucy would be able to draw it.
Adding in the fact that a Holy Sword will automatically return to its master’s side not long after the moment it leaves the presence of its master, the only one who is capable of freely using a Holy Sword are just Heroes alone.
Thus, while there might exist individuals capable of lifting Shien’s Holy Sword in the world, but there’s definitely no existence apart from Shien capable of actually using said Holy Sword.
Naturally, even if there did exist an individual that might be capable of lifting a Holy Sword, there’s no way that person could possibly be Terrance, and there’s even less chance of it being Tyler.
Shien thus used reality to tell this child ignorant of the world that he’s far too early to even think about challenging Shien.
“Shink!”
Shien reached out, pulled out the Holy Sword, drew a pattern in the air with it, before finally returning it to its sheath.
That easy and casual motion made both Terrance’s and Tyler’s heart jump. They almost couldn’t believe that the sword that they were just trying to pull out was the same one that Shien just pulled out.
Tyler especially got seriously provoked by it and jumped up.
“No way! I won’t accept this!” Tyler threw a tantrum.
“You have no choice but to accept it no matter how much you might not want to, brat.”
Shien’s not the type to spare the feeling of brats, so he just grimaced. The disregard that leaked out of his tone ended up just provoking Tyler more though.
“There’s definitely a problem with that sword!” Tyler objected loudly, “That’s definitely some kind of magic weapon with specific use requirements, something that can only be used if you know the right way. You just know the right way of using it, that’s all. I didn’t know the right method at all, so how could I have pulled it out?”
That’s true enough. Those kind of magic weapons do exist in this world, where they can only be wielded via specialized methods, and without which, they can’t be used.
Tyler thought of that point and just thought that Shien was playing him, so he was shaking with fury.
Seeing Tyler act that way before him, Shien’s gaze gradually turned into one that was looking at a pitiful child in need of care.
If this was in some other novel, then at this point, the protagonist should be showing all kinds of amazing abilities to shock and awe everyone present, making everyone awed and amazed with him, while also crushing their opponent’s will to resist, making said opponent kneel down and admit defeat, right?
Unfortunately for them, Shien doesn’t need to prove himself.
He just wanted to say one thing.
“Young man.”
Shien patted Tyler’s shoulder, grinned, and spoke words that could give someone a heart attack.
“I even know just how many moles Lucy has on her body, you know?”
That one sentence struck Tyler like a bolt of lighting, making him shudder and freeze on the spot.
“Pff!”
Never mind Tyler, even Terrance did a spit take with a completely shocked face.
Even an idiot would be able to realize just what Shien’s words implied.
“You said that you refuse to believe that I had any relationship with Lucy, right?” Shien gave a brilliant smile as he enunciated each and every word, “I’m sorry to say that you’re going to be disappointed. The day I set off from the Capital, she was lying in the same bed as me.”
Utterly crushing!
This really was utterly crushing!
In the face of a young man in love with his idol, Shien had mercilessly revealed the brutal truth that shattered his dreams!
“You… You’re lying…! You’re lying…!”
Tyler was overexcited to the point of near insanity. He just pointed at Shien like he wanted to say a ton of things, yet in the end, due to the unimaginable stimulation, all he could do was mindlessly and inelegantly deny it one-sidedly.
Seeing Tyler looking acting overly excited like he had taken major mental damage, Shien just shook his head pityingly before he struck the final blow.
It was a crystal like magic item.
Both Terrance and Tyler recognized this magic item.
It’s not a particularly valuable item. It’s just a magic crystal that’s used to record images.
In other words, it’s this other world’s magical version of a camera.