Chapter 231: Unexpected.
Among the requested materials there were two wooden boxes containing an elemental spark each. One had to be passed to Daniel – he was the one who had to forge the weapon that was going to take Duvant’s life.
Daniel didn’t understand why Lee was rushing him to finish the weapon – he had negotiated a full three months to work on it. But Lee kept pushing, insisting it had to be done immediately. So in just four days Daniel created something incredibly wasteful, but beautiful.
The weapon resembled an oversized needle more than a sword. It was two feet long, round and thin, designed to allow a perfect flow of the wind elemental energy from the spark sealed within its short handle. It was simple, but heavy, and if it worked as Lee intended – incredibly deadly.
Daniel passed it through their communication hole in the wall, and after storing the weapon in his glove, Lee sat in the middle of the room, with the box containing the remaining wind spark in front of him.
He deeply hated himself for what he was about to do next, but at the same time didn’t see another alternative.
Yes, technically he could die, but he never knew how many deaths he still had left, if any at all. And he knew where the overlord was, and knew how to get to her. After hearing her laughter, Lee was certain she was a nice lady and wouldn’t mind helping a young lad like him – for an omnipotent overlord his problem probably was just a joke.
Lee immediately scratched the idea to attempt to kill Duvant as he was. His current speed was way too slow to ambush an elemental lord, even if the lord stood right next to him. If he possessed the wind element, though, the odds would dramatically shift in his favor.
The weapon he came up with and Daniel created in a record time, would allow to transfer huge amounts of wind energy through the tip – right into the Duvant’s body. Lee intended to use the technique hunters employed when hunting high level beasts, like Arax against the quakeback behemot. Of course, the devil aged decades because of the loss of the elemental energy, but he was just an elemental warrior.
The principle was simple – one had to use a concentrated stream of specific elemental energy to counter the target’s affinity. In Arax’s case – he used one of his two sparks, the wind spark, and transferred large amounts of wind energy into the quakeback behemot’s body, killing the humongous beast with the earth affinity.