Chapter 487: Chapter 486: Unusual Movements of the Holy Origin Society

“Good blade.”

As he observed the blade wrapped in icy mist, Shao Zifeng couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.

Not to mention, the chill it emitted upon being unsheathed was already far superior to the E-grade experimental saber he had custom-made before.

In the corner of his eye, specks of light swirled, and a light blue screen slowly unfolded.

[Name]: Skyward Saber

[Attribute]: Ice

[Quality]:

[Condition]: Intact

[Effect]: Cold Weapon: When using ice elemental energy, there’s a chance to freeze the hit area (triggering consumes an extra 10% elemental energy).

Ice-breaking: Attacking an area frozen by ‘Cold Weapon’ has a chance to directly shatter the armor and cause crush-type injuries (triggering consumes an extra 20% elemental energy).

[Description]: The ‘Skyward Saber’ is a weapon tailor-made for Commander ‘Li Tianwen’ of the Great Xia Dragon Legion. It was forged by top master smiths of Great Xia who used their traditional craftsmanship to greatly preserve the suitability of the materials, representing the pinnacle of modern cold weaponry craftsmanship in Great Xia.

Indeed, a good blade.

Shao Zifeng looked at the Skyward Saber with some envy.

He stretched his fingers and gently slid them along the blade, feeling the shivers of its chill.

Although the Skyward Saber was only of three-star quality, it was not largely due to the craftsmanship but rather the limitation of materials.

Being able to forge a three-star quality weapon with just a single material and no auxiliary materials, relying solely on experience, indeed qualifies this as a peak creation.

Moreover, this weapon also comes with two complementary special effects. It’s just a pity he didn’t know whether these characteristics were fixed or randomly produced due to different crafting methods.

If the weapons I custom-ordered also had such strong effects, Shao Zifeng quickly got short of breath.

Handing the Skyward Saber back to Li Tianwen, Shao Zifeng asked impatiently, “General Li, could I also custom-order a weapon like this?”

“I mean, by the same people who forged your Skyward Saber.”

“Of course,” Li Tianwen took the saber back, not minding that Shao Zifeng was right in front of him and carefully wiped it on the scabbard. “However, I remember your ‘Bonding Reaction’ is fire attribute, you know, currently only ice attribute can produce perfect elemental weapons, you…”

Before he could finish, the temperature in the living room suddenly dropped, causing Lu Anan, who was sitting aside, to slightly widen his eyes.

Zifeng’s pupils turned ice blue and quickly expanded to fill his entire eyes, his misty ice-blue eyes resembling a vast starry sky. Then, two fin-like flaps appeared, attached to his ears, fluttering as if there was a breeze.

In the sharply dropping temperature of the living room, the coffee table visibly grew a layer of frost, even the teacup was covered with beautiful ice flowers.

The warm sunlight entered through the front door, filling the air, seemingly mingling with tiny ice particles, emitting a rainbow-colored sheen in the sunlight, appearing incredibly dreamlike.

“A second-stage reaction,” Li Tianwen observed seriously, regret visible on his stern face. He had wanted Shao Zifeng to join his Dragon Army from the start. It was a pity to not have such a promising recruit undergo training in the military.

“Achoo!!”

At that moment, a loud sneeze broke the silence inside the room.

Numerous tiny ice particles tumbled in the strong airflow.

Lu Anan, clad in thin military attire, rubbed his nose and glared at Shao Zifeng, complaining, “Don’t you know how to show some consideration for others? I’m not of the ice attribute.”

Shao Zifeng flashed an apologetic smile, which made Lu Anan pause slightly.

Not to mention, under the influence of the second-stage reaction, that smile had a bit of a merman prince charm to it.

The characteristics of the Ice Horned Whale slowly faded away as Shao Zifeng placed his hand on the teapot, a thin flame emerging in his palm, and the chilled tea quickly started to boil.

As he poured water into their cups, Lu Anan finally nodded in satisfaction, “Let’s do this, the system function is still not perfect, later you hand over your requirements to me, when I return to the capital…”

Li Tianwen cut her off again, “The second matter.”

“Oh, right.” Lu Anan, troubled, struck her head, “I almost forgot that.”

Putting down her teacup, Lu Anan looked seriously at Shao Zifeng, “Zifeng, aside from the matter of the award, there’s another thing that I must ask you to agree to.”

Shao Zifeng was startled for a moment, then nodded slightly, “Go ahead.”

Lu Anan organized her thoughts, “This is the situation, recently many small cities within our borders have been attacked, the Holy Origin Society’s vermin seem to have planned this, striking over twenty rather isolated small cities within a few days.”

Hearing the name Holy Origin Society, Shao Zifeng straightened up a bit, holding no good feelings in his heart towards this organization.

“This time the attacks were different, they aimed not to kill but to injure, and they would withdraw immediately after injuring people.” Lu Anan seemed quite emotional as she continued, taking a deep breath, “As you might have guessed, employing such despicable means, those vermin-like guys created several dozen infected victims in a short period of time.”

“All of them are operatives from the Abnormal Administration Bureau of the respective cities, they are heroes who protect our cities, but now they can only lie in bed, waiting to die in despair.”

“Zifeng, I know your pet beast can cure this kind of infection, so I would like to ask you to come back with us to the capital.” Saying this, Lu Anan suddenly stood up, saluted him military-style, and said earnestly, “Please.”

Accustomed to Lu Anan’s usually light tone, her seriousness was indeed somewhat unusual.

Shao Zifeng quickly rose to his feet, “General Lu, there’s no need to be so formal.”

When he saw related news in the car, he had thought it was just the usual strife from those living underground, not expecting that the Holy Origin Society was involved and had simultaneously targeted twenty or so remote cities across the country.

After thinking for a moment, he cautiously asked, “General Lu, I would like to know how often this type of infection occurs domestically each year?”

If you’re asking whether Shao Zifeng wanted to save people, the answer was definitely yes.

If he hadn’t known about it, that would have been one thing, but knowing it, he definitely couldn’t just watch as dozens of lives were lost; moreover, absorbing those infection viruses could help complete his ‘infection’ ability.

The only thing holding him back was how many people were infected in Daxia each year; if the number were too high, setting aside whether he could save them all, he wouldn’t possibly be able to devote all his energy to this alone.

Sensing Shao Zifeng’s concern, Lu Anan promptly said, “Not many, not many, usually the Abnormal Administration Bureau’s fights against the Holy Origin Society are to the death, and there are only about a few dozen infection cases each year.”

“It’s just that this time the Holy Origin Society launched targeted attacks all of a sudden, which led to so many infections in a short span.”

Having received the answer he wanted, Shao Zifeng no longer hesitated, “Alright, I’ll go.”

“That’s… that’s wonderful!”

“Zifeng, I really don’t know how else to thank you!”

A genuine smile of relief and joy appeared on Lu Anan’s face.

“It’s what I should do.”

Even so, Shao Zifeng felt somewhat heavy-hearted, always sensing some unknown motives behind this incident.

When things are amiss, there must be a demon; the Holy Origin Society wouldn’t have launched so many attacks without reason, especially attacks that did not aim to kill.

At that moment, the figure of Valery suddenly appeared before him.

The first time he lost control using his ‘infection’ ability, that guy had continuously played his flute trying to control him. During the ambush in the Antarctic Valley, Valery had specifically asked him and Chen Yixin to come along, seemingly knowing something – whether there was any connection between the two incidents was unknown.

Thinking this, Shao Zifeng laughed self-deprecatingly; something even he could think of, the Daxia officials would definitely notice the abnormalities.

Just over two months remained until the national cup competition.

Hopefully, nothing untoward would happen before then.

(PS: Habitual request for votes.)