When Maria heard the first words that came out of the little girl’s mouth, she nearly dropped the girl out of shock but managed to barely hold back. First of all, it was true that the little girl in her arms looked like a miniature version of herself, but there was no way it was her child. Definitely not. She was only just a teenager, but then again, in the game world anything could happen.
“Mama?”
“Urk…”
Maria had an awkward look on her face when she heard those words. She was emotionally not ready to be a mother or anything like that.
“Uhm…Hello?”
“Mama, please give me a name…”
*DING*
Congratulations, your Soul Weapon has successfully completed its evolution. Please give your Soul Weapon a proper name!
Maria read the notification and hesitated for a moment. As if she could feel the hesitation, the little girl in her arms quickly said once again, “Mama, please give me a name…”
“O-Okay…Uhm…wait a sec. Since you’re a combination of Calamity and Syn…how about Calisyn? Or how about just Cali? That sounds nice, right?”
“Un.”
*DING*
Soul Weapon Syn has been renamed to Cali!
Name: Cali - Calamity-Syn Level: 128 (Adjusted to player Maria’s level) Rank: Divine Category: Exclusive Awakened Soul Weapon ATK: 6000 ~ 7000
M. ATK: 6000 ~ 7000
STR +3200
VIT +3200
INT +3200
AGI +3200
Soul Weapon Skill 1: [Form Change] - Changes the Soul Weapon’s form
Base Form: Soul Weapon Cali
First Form: Calamity-Syn Demon Axe
Second Form: Calamity-Syn Reaper Scythe
Third Form: Calamity-Syn Zantetsuken
Fourth Form: Calamity-Syn Star-Chasing Bow
Fifth Form: Calamity-Syn Calamity Dragon Spear
Soul Weapon Skill 2: [Soul Reaper's Zeal] - Halves all SP consumption and provides a 30% Soulsteal effect for all attacks. Every soul killed within 20 meters of the user will increase A.SPD and M.SPD by 5%. The SPD buff stacks up to a maximum increase of 100% and 50% respectively. Duration: 60 minutes
Soul Weapon Skill 3: [Soul Execution] - Instantly kills an enemy who has less than 10% HP. This skill ignores the level limitation. Cannot be used on players or boss-type monsters
Soul Weapon Skill 4: [Devour] - Absorbs a weapon to increase the Soul Weapon’s attributes
Soul Weapon Skill 5: [Manifest] - Usable outside of Base Form. Allows the Soul Weapon to create multiple copies of herself using the user’s mana. The Soul Weapon can also act independently as long as she is within 30 kilometers of the user. Going beyond this range will automatically teleport the Soul Weapon to the user’s side
Soul Weapon Skill 6: [Soul Link] - Links the user and the Soul Weapon on an astral level. Allowing the user to manifest the Soul Weapon anytime and anywhere they want, ignoring any form of limitation
Weapon Skill 1: [Calamity Cleave Alpha] - Usable only with the First Form. Cleaves the earth with the Demon Axe, damaging any nearby enemy units for 10,000 DMG while slowing them down for 10 seconds before sending out shockwaves in a 10-meter area around the initial impact zone, dealing an additional (3.0 x STR) DMG and stunning the enemy units hit by it for 5 seconds. Cooldown: 30 seconds
Weapon Skill 2: [Calamity Cleave Beta] - Usable only with the Second Form. Slashes out three times with the Reaper Scythe, sending dark energy waves in front of the caster. Each energy wave deals 10,000 M.DMG and stuns the enemy for 2.5 seconds. When the energy waves strike a target, the wave splits and flies out in all directions around the target within a 10-meter radius, dealing an additional (3.0 x INT) M.DMG to all enemies hit and inflicting [Bleed] for 15 seconds. Cooldown: 30 seconds
Weapon Skill 3: [Calamity Cleave Gamma] - Usable only with the Third Form. Charges the Calamity-Z with sword energy before powerfully slashing out, dealing devastating damage to enemies 30 meters in front of the user. Deals 10,000 Pure Damage and engulfs the enemy in hellfire, dealing an additional (3.0 x INT) M.DMG and inflicting [Burn] for 20 seconds. Cooldown: 30 seconds
Weapon Skill 4: [Calamity Cleave Delta] - Usable only with the Fourth Form. Enhances the energy arrows fired from the Star-Chasing Bow for 30 seconds. Each arrow deals (3.0 x AGI) DMG and explodes upon contact, dealing an additional (1.5 x STR) DMG and knocking enemies back while stunning them for 1 second. Cooldown: 40 seconds
Weapon Skill 5: [Calamity Cleave Epsilon] - Creates 3 mirages of the user and unleashes (0.001 x AGI) spear thrusts with the Calamity Dragon Spear. Each spear thrust deals (2.0 x STR) M.DMG and pierces through the opponent, hitting any target around them for half the original DMG. Inflicts [Bleed] on initial target for 20 seconds. Cooldown: 30 seconds
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Description: Player Maria’s Unique Soul Weapon. It was created by the gods of old and has evolved after devouring the Death God’s weapon, Calamity. The Soul Weapon takes on the form of a little girl who is the spitting image of player Maria. She likes to refer to player Maria as ‘Mama’ because she is–by definition–her mother
When Maria read through the extensive description of her evolved Soul Weapon, Cali, she wasn’t too surprised to see that she had mostly taken on Calamity’s stat bonuses and skills. Of course, what did surprise her were the major increases to all of Calamity’s weapon skills and stat enhancement effects. Also, the [Manifest] and [Soul Link] skills that were previously locked have now been unlocked.
The [Manifest] skill seemed pretty interesting, so Maria was eager to test a few things out. The [Soul Link] skill spoke for itself. With her being able to manifest Cali whenever and wherever she wanted while completely ignoring any limitations that were placed on her by the game’s system, she no longer had to worry about being weaponless in the event that she somehow came to a place that didn’t allow her to use any weapons.
There were some areas like this that a few players had discovered, though Maria had never been to one of them before. Players usually struggled to escape or explore these places because, without their weapons or equipment, they really were kind of weak. Maria, however, no longer had to worry about losing her weapon in those kinds of places thanks to the [Soul Link] skill.
While Maria was looking through Cali’s description window, the little girl in her arms turned around, stood up on Maria’s thighs, and wrapped her little arms around Maria’s neck before saying, “Mama, I’m hungry…”
“Eh? Uhm…You’re hungry? W-What do you want to eat, Cali?” Maria frantically asked.
She didn’t know what to do with this cute little girl but after reading through her description and knowing that Cali called her mother because she was by definition her mother, Maria felt somewhat flustered as to how to treat her.
After hearing her mother’s question, Cali tilted her head at Maria rather cutely before looking down at her chest for a long moment. When Maria saw that her daughter's eyes were transfixed to her breasts, her heart immediately sank as her face turned somewhat pale.
‘N-No way…right?’
Cali looked to be around the size of a 3 to 5 year old child. She did hear about little kids like them still breast-feeding from their mothers despite their age, but there was just no way she could provide that kind of thing herself, since she obviously couldn't be lactating!
“Cali wants to eat that!”
Before Maria's misunderstanding deepened, Cali pointed at the Zantetsu-R necklace that Maria was wearing which was dangling right in between her cleavage. Hearing her words, Maria released an immense sigh of relief before exclaiming, “Hold on! You want to eat Zantetsu?”
Hearing what Maria said, Cali held the necklace form of Zantetsu-R and said again, “Cali wants to eat it, Mama!”
“Ugh.”
Seeing the adorable way her 'daughter' addressed herself and how cute she was while speaking, Maria was almost inclined to let Cali eat her mythic-grade weapon, but fortunately, she came to her senses. Maria shook her head and stuttered, “N-No! You can’t eat Zantetsu!”
“Huh? B-But…Cali wants to–”
“I said no!”
After hearing her mother's firm and somewhat angry reply, Cali’s bright eyes immediately began to tear up as her expression turned sullen, thinking that she had angered her mama. She didn’t wail or anything, she just silently began to sniffle as she held back her tears.
Seeing her like this, Maria was once again flustered, but she really couldn’t let her daughter eat Zantetsu-R. It was a very important weapon for her since it was given to her by her mentor, the great Primal Allfather, Odin. If Odin found out that she let her daughter eat the inheritance he gave her... Maria didn't even want to think about how angry the Primal would become.
“Cali, look here,” Maria said as she gently lifted Cali's chin with her finger.
“...Un?”
Maria smiled gently at her before saying, “I’ll let you eat something else. You can pick anything except Zantetsu-R, okay? It’s very important to Mama, you don’t want to make Mama sad, right?”
She began trying to pacify Cali using the technique she remembered her late-mother used to do with her whenever she started crying because things couldn't go her way or she got into trouble and made her parents angry. It worked like a charm and the saddened Cali immediately nodded with a sniffle before saying, “Okay…”
“Great! That’s my little girl~ Tell me, what else do you want to eat?”
Maria began wiping away Cali's tears with her hand and the little girl started smiling brightly again after seeing that her mother wasn't angry. Cali began looking around the Ancestral Blood Hall before pointing to one of the weapon decorations on the walls.
“Cali wants to eat that, Mama!” She said with a bright smile.
Maria looked at the large decoration before scratching her head. ‘Does she like eating weapons? I guess her [Devour] skill is playing a part in her appetite maybe? I'll ask her later, but for now, let's give her what she wants.’
She waved her hand and used her Divine Energy to telekinetically bring the decorative weapon over to Cali, who eagerly grabbed the rather heavy thing with her small hands and lifted it up to her mouth like it didn't weigh anything before chomping down on the tip of the weapon.
Maria was quite surprised to see that her daughter was able to easily devour the metal weapon. It was only decorative and wasn't exactly of a high-grade, but her dwarves had made those decorations and the materials they used were naturally of good quality, yet her daughter easily tore through the metal with her teeth. Not only that, but she was humming happily while chewing it rather deliciously too, which further shocked Maria.
'J-Just how tough are Cali's teeth?!' Maria thought before quickly asking her daughter, “...Does Cali like eating weapons? Do you not want to eat sweets or anything?”
“What is that, Mama?”
“I’ll show you what it is later after you finish eating that. I’m sure sweets and proper food will taste better than that.”
“Un. Okay, Mama.”
Despite feeling flustered and a bit unsure at the start, Maria was rather quick to accept Cali as her daughter. Even though there was a bit of misunderstanding earlier and she had to scold Cali so soon, Maria loved the little girl like she was genuinely her own daughter.
In fact, from the way they resembled each other and how she came into being, Cali could not only pass off as Maria's daughter but she could actually be it as well. After all, the Soul Weapon had merged with Maria and practically became a part of her though she had never used it before, but when she gave Calamity to it as a form of nutrition, which allowed it to evolve into Cali, then it could be said that she had ‘given birth’ to her daughter right then and there.
Anyhow, Maria had gained a new addition to her family and it was her daughter, Cali. She couldn’t wait to show her off to her family, friends, and subordinates!