Versatile: Alternate World

The struggle of the mole took a little bit more time before it finally breathed its last. Guts took his time to prolong the life of the mole so that he can fight but in the end, it didn't work that well and the mole succumbed to its wounds. With how many wounds Guts inflicted it, it is already long enough for it to survive that long.

"Ah! That was a real good battle! Plus! I got two sharp weapons to boot!" Guts happily swing around the chipped claws in the air like it was a real sword.

As for me, I went to look into the corpse of the mole. There were some traces of dark mana particles that resemble the mana particles that were swirling earlier and devoured by my Versatile Weapon. But compared to the mana earlier, it wasn't even that strong and just enough for me to neutralize it completely.

The moment I neutralized the dark mana, the whole place started to shake and distort.

"Oh, it looks like we are done with this place. Hey, Bladeheart, let's get out of here! We are good to go now! Let's depart before we are stuck here!"

I didn't have time to even butcher the corpse so all I did is store it in my inventory temporarily. It had some good parts that I can use for making some items so it would be a waste to leave them without using them.

Together with Guts, we left the portal before the whole place collapsed and trap us.

We jump out from the portal and we returned to the white and cold hell. Behind us is the portal that started to shrink and close. It only took a few seconds before it disappeared, revealing the road that is blocked by the giant portal.

"Welp, the road is now free. Should we continue or should we rest and have some good night's sleep?" Guts stretch his arms.

"The sooner I am gone here, the better. I don't want to remain here without doing much. I need to reunite with the others as soon as possible," and after that, I went ahead alongside Atlas as we continue to scale the road that is leading up to the top.

"Whatever floats your boat man," Guts shrugged his shoulders and continue to walk with us.

The temperature of the place starts to get higher now and the coldness is much more bearable now. I also don't know if it was just my imagination but I think I can see a light at the very top whenever I stare up at the end of the top. Although I am just assuming it was a reflecting light, I am also hoping it was just a light that came outside of this place.

If the place was wider than this tight size, I could have asked Leona to fly me up to the top and call it a day. But Leona is not a dragon, she is a gryphon and the only abilities she have doesn't include having a strong body and she cannot blast through walls with her breath.

Then, we reached into a small room. The road up to where I am assuming to be the exit had a path that leads to a room. We can pass on it if we decided to ignore it but it was something that I didn't expect to see. I am eager to continue our climb but Atlas stopped me from progressing.

"Master, I think we should investigate the room ahead of us. I am feeling something trying to pull us there."

"Trying to pull? What do you mean? Something ominous?"

"No. It was like an enticing aura of something. I can't properly explain it but it was indeed trying to call us to investigate that place."

Atlas is similar to Lucia, who is sensitive to small mana fluctuations. He might be one of the mini-bosses in one of the dungeons I cleared but that doesn't mean he is inferior in abilities to Lucia and if he is telling me something is worth checking out in that room, then so be it and we shall check it.

"Are you guys going to walk to the exit?" Guts asked as he saw our detour.

"Nah, just a slight detour, nothing much serious. We are just going to investigate something here."

"Oh, okay. Then I will go and scout ahead for a bit then come back here once you guys are done."

"Sure."

Guts continued to go up while Atlas and I went into the room that seems to be intentionally made from this place. I doubt it was Guts who made it. It doesn't seem to be manmade and even if it was him, then how come he didn't use this instead of staying very deep underground?

The room is huge and it's not just something huge. It was like a whole floor of a building in the real world. The only difference is that this place is littered with frozen pillars, blue stalactites and stalagmites, and the freezing air that seems to be swirling all around the room.

"I can feel it. It is somewhere around this room," Atlas continued to move forward. Of course, he didn't forget to pull out his weapon. I also took my weapon out and readied myself in case something is going to come out and it was just that thing calling to Atlas.

"Are you sure? This place seems to be empty," I turned my head around the place and there seems to be nothing around here except those ice formations I mentioned earlier.

"Look at that Master. That is a block of abnormally big ice out there," Atlas then pointed not too far from us a big block of ice. It wasn't blocking anything and it doesn't seem to be formed naturally there.

I was going to ignore that at first but then, I noticed one thing that seems to be sticking out from the ice block. It's something I haven't noticed before until we got a bit closer so now it is much more visible to me.

"A dagger?"

It's a black dagger with some peculiar designs on its handle. Its blade is quite peculiar in shape though only the half part of it is visible since the lower half of it, especially the tip is buried on that block of ice and oddly enough, despite the ice being clear and transparent, it doesn't show what is the tip of the dagger looks like.

Now, I have not seen this weapon before but for some unknown reason, it seems to be pretty much familiar to me. I tried to inspect it without touching it to see whether the dagger is something that I can check the details. However, every time I do so...

[Error]

A big red error appeared every time I tried to inspect the dagger. It was a bit odd since this is the first time I have encountered something to gives an error while trying to inspect an item. Of course, I can try to touch it and inspect it further but seeing the big error earlier, made me hesitate to check it out.

"Master. I think I found the one that seems to be calling me since earlier. I think this big chunk of ice and this dagger is calling at us."

"Huh? Are you sure you are not joking? How can this big chunk of ice call us? I don't think there is an item that can do that unless this dagger had a piece of consciousness attached to it."

"Perhaps this dagger has one?"

I frowned and turned to look at the dagger once more. I have seen quite a lot of weapons before that had some odd specific things that made them quite perform well and some have specific roles that I think might be the case here as well.

But where is the thrill of that? There must be something special about it and why it was sticking out on the ice. Since it was an error item, I grab the unique handle of the dagger and yank it out of the big chunk of ice. At that moment, I finally managed to try and inspect it when the item landed in my hands.

[Broken Carnwennan]

Type: Item/Broken Weapon

Info: A relic weapon that once belonged to King Arthur. It lacks the tip of the weapon, rendering it into a broken item. But even with its missing tip, the edge of the Carnwennan is enough to cut something easily. Perhaps a blacksmith with a high degree of mastery and expertise will be able to restore it to its former glory.

The Carnwennan?! My eyes didn't deceive me. The info indeed put it as the [Carnwennan]. But since it is a broken piece of weapon, it was now called [Broken Carnwennan] and it's status as a weapon is not available and only the info appeared. So it was true that the relics of King Arthur exist here!

But just when I thought I found a good jackpot out of it, the block of ice started to release some cracks. Big cracks, Just from seeing that, I know it is something that is not gonna be good.