Curious, Roberion opens his system screen and focus on the notification.

New weapon added - [Soulbond] Last gamble of the Round Table

“Ok…so that fat rodent is a weapon? I did use him as a shield, but using him a weapon is taking too far. That piercing on the leg was a good one, but I would still prefer a gun, system what is Soulbond?”

“Soulbound: weapon enchantment that binds the user and weapon, lost upon true death of user or permanent destruction of weapon. WARNING: Weapon destruction can lead to the death of the user”.

“Alright, let me take this weapon here first and we can continue”, Roberion takes the dead guard’s weapon off the floor, and finishes the reloading, it seems not all guards were dead or more existed in this place, ‘Yes there is that research base, maybe this guy was from there, I need to find this research base later, first lets get ready’.

System, could you give me a full description of this weapon?. The engram gets hot again, the feeling of weakness returns. A new screen open up, showing more information than he was ready.

[Soulbond] - Last gamble of the Round Table

“In the last days of the Kingdom, the immortals made a choice to gamble it all in a relic. This is the result of their failure.”

Type: Weapon

Tier: Peak-mundane [Upgradable]

Incarnation: Legend [Upgradable]

Line: Distortion

Enchantment:

[Soulbound]:…

[Protection of Camelot]: The die will activate automatically when the user is in immediate danger or weapon loss. Tier dependent.

[Thirteen sides to die for]: Upon weapon activation, an unlocked face will be randomly selected. Synergy with the enchantment [Knight Rules]. Unlocked faces:

* I - Percival [Unique]

“Leaving his family, he followed five Immortals of the Round Table with a dream. Only to return after The Shattering, Immortal, to see his family deceased. His sister was dead with the toy she always loved in her embrace. The fluffy knight he gave was the only left to protect her.”

[Knight Rules]: Upon weapon activation, the following rules will be applied to the user. Rules unlocked:

* Price of knighthood: The weapon summoning locks 40% of the face selected attribute.

* The Shattering: all blessings are now void.

* Unforgiven pact: The die can only be deactivated when the danger is ceased. After a face weapon destruction, the die is cast again when [Protection of Camelot] is active; the rules are reapplied.

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Roberion stared at the screen, speechless, thinking, How a weapon can be so good and so bad at the same time? There is so much potential there, but it seems the benefits are skewed. Take the enchantment Protection of Camelot for example, first it will help me to know when someone tries to stab me in the back, but if someone is smart, they could try to poison me to sleep or something, they could even do it too fast or unbearable that I couldn’t do anything, and that seems how it will go with how weak Percival was. The random selection of faces could be a problem down in the road, but there is only one now.

I admit he was somewhat useful, the Price of knighthood with Unforgiven pact though. That is basically a permanent debuff in combat. I don’t understand most of this information. The system is being difficult, but let’s do another try…Even after trying for a few minutes, the system didn’t inform what Incarnation and Line were. Legend had a nice ring to it, sadly it didn’t inform more details about Tier and Enchantment either. When asked about what the story of the weapon and Percival meant, the system's only answer was silence. Could you at least say what Unique means?.

“Unique: feature unique enchantments and conditions”.

Show me.

I - Percival [Unique]

Enchantment:

[Stoic]: Can’t feel pain or discomfort

[Face of Strength]: Its inherent attribute is strength

So this explains most of how he acted. Stoic could be worked with, but Face of Strength will be a problem, if I had to go fight that muscled Null on melee, I would be pummeled to the ground. And I feel everything will be only worse from now on, but let’s see how it works. Roberion looks at the die and again tries to throw it out, what happened in the battle happens again, Percival showing up. Roberion get weakened. This time, the creature seems to show composure and to be less talkative.

“How gracious to see you. My name is Percival. Our first meeting was a battle for the ages, but let’s talk about you. Who are you?”

“You can call me Roberion, going forward and I think we will be in similar situations, but let’s avoid it, you will need to be stealth as possible because you will be the first to go. Can you do that?”

“Oh yes, that’s would be fruitful. I actually prefer it. I myself fancy the silence, but I regret to warn you that in the presence of an audience I get nervous, and when nervous I speak uncontrollably. Nonetheless, you don’t need to be fearful. In a fight, I will be silent as death”. When finishing, Percival gives a quick salute.

“Great, now though I need to harvest this guard, but first could you tell me if you feel anything that interest you, like a material that improves you, something that attracts you? It’s that, at least for me, I need to use the system to upgrade my constitution and get stronger, but you are a weapon so I dont know how that works. The diamond system can’t or simple doesn’t want to answer it”, Roberion glances around the area, being cautious.

Percival put his hand in his almost no existent chin and supervise the area. “I can’t say I do. My memory is simply empty, the only one being our brave display. But your proposal seems reasonable. Should we happen in such a situation, I shall report to you. In this instance, although, I don’t feel anything picking my interest."

“You do that, for now I will harvest this guy, keep a lookout”. After asking the system, the system says that his attributes will be increased by 2 strength and 2 dexterity, increasing his to level 4. During the process Percival look at the process first with interest as the colorful lines show up and with reservation when the harvest begins. It doesn’t take much time. After a few minutes the process ends and he felt stronger.

Now finally some progress on my second perk, the first one didn’t see much use for now, but I’m sure it will soon. As he says that, he takes a look at his second perk.

Natural Born Killer: Kill or destroy ....4....entities.

Now where I will find more people to kill? I think the only way is going after that research station. Maybe some wild animals show up. I also need to keep going before the times run out. Thinking that, he opens the information of his second quest:

Quest updated: Reach the research station - Countdown started by Quest Giver; 6 days; 21:47 hours.

“Plenty of time to go. For now Percival, let’s check this place out. Maybe we can find something useful. I have to say, you already proved not enough for a team of Nulls, Nulls being guys like myself, and I wage you wouldn’t against a bunch of guards. The same goes for me, I guess, let’s go”. Roberion point his hand, “You first”. Percival gets lost for a second before recovering and walking ahead. Roberion exits to the next room with a grin, hoping that he would find something in the house. ‘Things got better, but not by much’.