World Seed

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Yin and I sat there listening to Yang’s song until it was over. When it was done, she turned back to us and lightly smiled. The equipment that she had been working on seemed much more powerful than before, even without any of the enchantments on them yet. “I’m done, Master.” She then stepped aside to let me collect and inspect the gear.

As I had expected, this looked like higher level equipment you would normally find in a game wielded by nature-oriented classes. Although I knew their true power was fairly weak right now because of the materials, each one had been strengthened to the limits of Yang’s ability. In particular, a wooden sword seemed interesting to me. Its shape was like that of a katana, which made it a bokken. However, the wooden blade actually seemed sharp. It wouldn’t match up to a steel sword, but it definitely had some power behind it.

Picking up the bokken, I looked over to Yang. “Do you mind if I keep this one for myself?”

The girl immediately brightened up, smiling and nodding her head quickly. “Yes, please do!” She seemed incredibly happy that I would be taking one of her weapons for my own use.

“Thanks, Yang. They look great.” With a thought, I spread out my mana and absorbed all of the other items into the grove, aside from one other bokken which did not seem quite as powerful as this one. It would be my testing item, to make sure I was able to do some of the things I wanted.

From there, I left to go back to my crafting room, knowing that this place would provide me with the most privacy for my experiment. “Be careful, John. This shouldn’t be a life threatening experiment, so I won’t suggest you use your clone, but still.” Celeste’s voice rang out in my head as I decided on my course of action.

First, the ‘practice’ bokken. I set the other one aside while I worked so that nothing would happen to it, and then shifted into a slime person body. I had only been in this form a small number of times, so it took me a moment to stabilize my form. Afterwards, I changed my arm to surround this wooden sword, and directly consumed it with my new body.