Chapter 1767: The Venerables That Can"t Mind Their Own Business
Celestia demonstrated to me she could separate at any time thanks to her new Abilities, quickly glowing brightly and becoming Skadi, Uller, Ariel, and Hephaestus like nothing!
"I"m back?!" Skadi"s spear form was now completely red, resembling a legendary weapon that vampire venerable b.a.s.t.a.r.d would have wielded, sharp deadly, and majestic. "Wait, what happened?! I thought I would be Celestia from now on, right? Or... not? Are we or are we not her? I"m so confused."
"Ah, it worked!" Uller became an even larger, amazingly big black sword, overflowing with shadows coming from his body, looking ready to cleave through foes. "Hahaha! My true form is also even stronger now!"
"Phew... I really didn"t want to be Celestia forever!" Ariel became a beautiful blue colored trident, beautifully decorated with sea waves, fish, and dragon paintings over her metallic body. "It"s a relief that we can turn back at any time! You did as you promised, Drake, well done! I guess I should trust you more from now on, I apologize."
"Hmm, my body changed." And then there was Hephaestus, now having changed, his flames had become purple and so his body color, enormous and mighty, as a hammer should be. "My flames are purple... Demonic Flames? Oh, interesting."
I felt relieved they were back and normal!
"Well, it"s nice it worked as I intended!" I laughed. "Welcome back. Now you"re all part of my strongest weapon. And even in your individual forms, you"re powerful, it is as if you had evolved not once, but four times thanks to the fusion process and how I made it. How do you feel?"
"Fine..." Skadi said. "My bloodl.u.s.t has diminished, somehow, being together as one as Celestia cooled my mind, it filled me with tranquilness."
Huh... Did Skadi liked being fused?
"I am as fine as always!" Uller said. "Though, I do feel much stronger now, master, we need to go hunt some beasts to practice our new powers!"
I guess Uller is completely fine, he"s the one that has the strongest mental strength.
Is it because he"s a Sword of Darkness?
"I"m fine, if anything, I feel stronger and less... weird?" Ariel wondered. "Maybe like Skadi said, fusing made me feel slightly calmer. Though I prefer being myself anyways. I"ll fuse whenever you want."
Ariel has matured more out of nowhere. She"s the oldest yet most of the time acted as the youngest, good to know.
"There"s nothing remarkable about my changes other than my physical appearance..." Hephaestus said with a confident voice. "If anything, I feel stronger! And that"s all-what matters at the end of the day. Oh right, my flames... I think they had become a fusion between the Flames of Beginnings, the Flames of Demise, and Demonic Fire."
Hephaestus was a "musclehead" like always, perhaps even more than Uller.
"Yeah, you"ve definitely changed, Hephaestus," I nodded. "Alright! Thank you for helping me everyone."
I looked at Rakasha, Fuyu, Kate, and Andromeda.
"It is fine, I am glad I could help!" Rakasha said. "I"ve also become stronger out of nowhere...
I need to go see what these new powers are all about, see ya!"
The ice giant vampire blacksmith quickly walked away, seemingly excited of the blacksmithing divinity he had evolved.
"It"s ok... I"m tired, I"ll go back to the Divine World for now, take care," Fuyu yawned, teleporting inside my Divine World without another word.
"No problem papa," Kate smiled cutely. "Can we see how the weapon is? I"m intrigued..."
"Me too!" Andromeda nodded. "There"s many abilities I would like to check on that new weapon."
They seemed eager to check on the creation they helped making, so we moved to another place within these lands in the resting lobby, finding beasts to fight.
In the way, however, suddenly, the Spiritual Projections of the Frost Queen and the Fox Venerable appeared behind me, their eyes glowing.
"Drake!"
"Why didn"t you tell us you were making a Venerable weapon!"
The two Venerables glared at me as if I had committed a terrible sin.
"W-What? What"s wrong? Do I have to tell you everything?!" I asked. "I still remember the "little trolling" you gave me when I was making my Ascendancy Law! Why didn"t you tell me about the tribulations beforehand? I could have prepared much better!"
"T-That"s...!" the Ice Queen muttered. "n.o.body ever told us either, we imagined it was a trial you had to go through, something like a challenge you must complete on your own...
Apologies."
Apologies she says... and with that stoic face of hers, seriously.
"I mean, aren"t you super strong and all of that? Don"t be such a crybaby now!" meanwhile,
the real Belle just laughed at me.
Ah, well, at least one of them apologized, this vixen doesn"t even want to do that!
What"s her problem?!
"This is a big event! To think you would be able to forge a Venerable Weapon without needing the a.s.sistance of the Blacksmith Venerable..." said the Frost Queen, trying to quickly bring a better theme of conversation.
"I guess if someone would have been able to do it, it should have been Drake. His powers completely break any conception of a Venerable before." Belle nodded. "Well done kid! We were a bit surprised... but that"s about all, we"re not mad at you. Maybe a bit jealous." "Only Belle is like that though," said the Frost Queen. "Ahem, anyways, what you did is more surprising and incredible than you imagine, Drake. Every one of us had to request a weapon from that old Dwarf because we simply had no power to create one on our own... without so many flaws."
"Is that so?" I wondered. "Well..."
It"s not like I didn"t need help though, without Rakasha, Fuyu, Andromeda, and Kate, it would have been simply impossible, so I can"t really say I did all of that myself.
"Well, if anything, my friends and family helped me do most of the work," I said. "My Daughter, Fuyu, Rakasha, and Andromeda... And well, my unique power of Creation and the
System."
"System, huh? So that was that d.a.m.n power you had all along, which you wanted to keep so secretly from us," said Belle, squinting her fox eyes.
"It"s an amazing Law, unfortunately we can"t a.s.similate it like the rest as our Laws prohibit
it," laughed the Frost Queen. "Nonetheless, it is nice to have you on the team, welcome, tenth venerable."
"A bit late with the welcome... but thank you."