Celestial Era: The Rise of the Full-Time Enhancer

Vincent already expected that the Apostles of the Magic God isn't someone they could easily deal with so he wasn't too surprised to hear that they could be equal to five Paragons or maybe even stronger than that.

To be honest, he even thought that they were weaker than he expected.

After all, he just dealt with two Paragons in a few minutes. Although it involved using several Legendary items and even his two Awakened Items, it can still be considered a lot easier…

He can easily guess that a few Celestial Beings should be more than enough to deal with the Apostles. As long as they have Celestial Armor and Celestial Weapons. If they don't, they should at least possess Magic Items that he had enhanced to guarantee their victory…

The interrogation lasted for an hour, as they also asked about the current situation within the Martial Arts Alliance and her knowledge about the Demonic Cult…

This is the most crucial information they needed right now.

Apparently, they have discovered a huge part of the territory of the Demonic Cult has become inhabitable.

It seems that some sort of miasma started spreading in the central part of their territory and they have to move even their headquarters because of it.

Ariana wasn't exactly sure about this miasma either but she knows that it forced the Cultists to seize more land in their neighboring lands.

"It was no wonder they've become so active over the past few years…" Shane muttered after hearing this revelation.

He had trained in the Martial Arts Alliance in the past few years and had encountered a lot of these cultists…

As a matter of fact, he knows about their suicidal tendency but these things wouldn't normally happen in such a large group.

Normally, within a squad of 50 cultists, there is only one person who is willing to do this to let his comrades escape the danger they were in.

He had never heard about a whole squad willing to sacrifice themselves just to eliminate their enemies.

"Perhaps their leader at that time forcefully ordered them to do it?" Vincent mused.

"That's also possible. If they were affected by some sort of hypnosis, it wouldn't be surprising then." Shane agreed.

"But I wonder what's their relationship with the werewolves? You mentioned that they appeared after you dealt with the berserk werewolves, right?" Vincent asked.

"That's true, I initially thought that they were controlling the werewolves with how they appeared. However, I can't really tell since they didn't seem to be coming for us for revenge… They made it seem like they were only interested in us, the Celestials."

Luna replied.

Well, they can't really tell the relationship between the cultists and the werewolves right now since not even Ariana has a clue about that.

They can only leave it at that since none of them knows the answer.

Vincent then asked Ariana to surrender her Magic Tools to him before he decided to send her elsewhere.

With the Subordination Impulse still active, Vincent decided to make her an instructor or trainer for their soldiers. She might be a prisoner or a defeated enemy, but it doesn't mean she's weak.

With her combat skills and Martia Arts, she can still easily defeat the Grand Knights of their city. She's still a Paragon after all so she's very useful to them right now.

If she trained their Magic Knights and Archknights with some of her Martial Arts, perhaps, it wouldn't take them long to advance to their next level, or even if not, they would at least become stronger once they learned other fighting techniques that he couldn't provide to them.

Well, his soldiers, or Knights and Magicians, were relying on their own skills in battles. Vincent did not provide them with any cultivation techniques, mana arts, or combat techniques that are unique to this city.

There are basically no original techniques that came from Vera City and making Ariana their trainer is the best he can do right now.

He can only hope that he'd be able to find some excellent techniques that can be exclusive to his city someday.

In the meantime, he checked the three decent items that Ariana has…

She actually has a total of six Magic Tools but Vincent didn't take the other three since they were her sleeveless dress, her corset, and her thigh band where she keeps her small knife.

What was in Vincent's hands right now are the knife, necklace, and gauntlet which seems to all have lightning element attributes.

He already learned that Ariana has a special physique allowing her to learn Spiritual Lightning Body Cultivation Technique. This cultivation method allowed her to bring out the potential of her physique leading to her success in reaching the level of a Paragon.

Unfortunately, no one other than her can learn this technique since it requires a special physique that only Ariana has.

"Appraise…"

[ Do you want to Appraise the item? ]

"Yes."

Ding!

[ Appraisal has been successful. ]

[ You have discovered an Omni Knife. ]

[ Omni Knife ]

[ Quality: Unique

Number of Enhancements: 0/10

Durability: 300/390

Sharpness: 70

Bleed: A passive ability that increases the bleeding of the target that was cut by the knife.

Quick Heal: In exchange for 40 units of Mana, the cut made by the knife can be healed quickly as long as it is within 30 seconds.

Description: An enchanted black knife made of black gold and soaked in cursed green blood.

Remarks: Special Sharpness Attribute found. Durability and Sharpness attributes will improve in every successful enhancement. Skill Effect will only be upgraded if the item has ascended to an Epic Rank. ]

Vincent raised his brow after reading the item skill effect…

He wasn't too surprised about the bleeding skill since he had seen some of them and he even has a few items with similar abilities in his inventory.

What truly surprised him was the Quick Heal that was included in the knife! Furthermore, it can only heal the target that was cut or wounded by the knife…

'I guess this is made for torture, huh…' Vincent mused as he swing the knife a couple of times before checking the other two items.