As I get up from the ground, the troll rushes and grabs my head, pinning me against the wall, the other hand punches my waist, crushing it completely. It let go of me and as I fell to the ground I saw it preparing to stomp me, but I won't let that happen again.

Using my spider-arms to walk I get out of hit range and keep my distance just enough for my legs to heal back. Once they're fully healed I prepare for my counter attack, this time I'm the one rushing in and faster than the troll could react, I punch the stomach with all my strength, creating a small crater that exposed the insides, causing some organs to fall to the ground, it fell to the ground, coughing blood.

I use this opportunity to throw a kick from above in one of the shoulders disconnecting if from the rest of the body, now it's fallen with the open stomach facing the ceiling I stand on top of the body ready to crush the head, but with the other hand it manages to grab my leg and rip it off again. I lose my balance and fall.

It's surprising how there's still enough force to move, but now I'm enraged from this humiliation.

I get up, using my spider-legs to continuously stab the arm until it comes out. Then I hold the troll by the neck, my hand is too small to hold it properly, so I have to rip the skin off so I can hold it from the insides.

Lifting this monstrosity up I look in its eyes, watching all life gradually dissipate from this being. It holds an exhausted expression, no hint of remorse, sadness, pride, acknowledgment of finding someone stronger... Nothing at all, these things are killing machines.

Perhaps to ease its pain quicker, or maybe because of my wish to be able to say I dealt the final blow, I use my spider-arms to penetrate the head creating four holes. Its eyes finally go dark, I let go of that fowl corpse, now looking at the last enemy remaining.

The last armor, the one holding a shield, is standing right next to the coffin as if to protect it, hadn't it done that, I'd probably have left after killing these three, but now I'm curious about who or what is inside. I walk to the armor, it takes a step back, looking scared.

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"Move" - I order, but I doubt it understands.

Crack.

Can these things even hear? One of my eyes twitch as I take another step forward. The armor moves away, letting me through.

The coffin has a bunch of drawings carved in stone, the precision and amount of detail it has is astonishing. Pushing the top layer the content inside is revealed: Not a body, but a scythe with a black snath ornate with a deep red. Contains two chines, the bigger one on top with some details on the shape of the edges, the smaller blade under the big one with less details. Its size is way bigger than the ones found in images I've seen in my old world. Back then it was used as an agricultural tool, but this one for sure is a weapon.

Grabbing the snath, something like a pop-up appeared in front of me.

[You have been acknowledged as the wielder of the legendary weapon "Verdict of Seth"]

[User Guide: "Verdict of Seth" is a legendary weapon created by #$%& $%#&$, it is capable of switching forms between a scythe and a spear, respectively by the wielder's voice command of "Change scythe" and "Change spear"]

[User Guide: "Verdict of Seth" can get stronger the more mana is channeled in. The used mana can be recovered afterwards]

[User Guide: The lack of mana within "Verdict of Seth" will cause the weapon to enter the dormant state, becoming a small, easy to carry baton]

So this weapon changes forms, can be disabled and can get stronger... Interesting. But something else caught my interest, what is mana and how do I control it? Holding the scythe I change to the spear mode and take a look, then I try channeling mana out of it.

After trying for a bit the weapon transforms into a baton a tiny bit longer than my hand. Then I try channeling mana inside it, and after some time it transforms into a spear again, I keep pumping mana in, the head starts to glow. I turn it into a scythe and look at the armor wielding a shield again.

The creature is bowing, I guess it was trying to protect it, and as I was recognized as its wielder, it now respects me? Either way I need to test how sharp this thing is. I walk towards the armor, as it starts to look up I swing the scythe and sure enough, it's a clean cut in half.

I wonder how much stronger it gets the more mana it has, so I walk to the troll, now dead and disappearing into a deep blue mist and slash it, another clean cut, like swinging through air. Now I take all the mana out, it turns into a baton, then I input mana just barely for it to transform, then take a swing. The cut isn't as clean, and it was slightly harder to cut, yet, in terms of lethality, mana is barely a requirement to the fights I'm used to.

There's nothing more to do down here, so I'm heading back up.