Moving One Matchstick to Balance the Books

Patterns rippled through the transparent air, like cracks spreading through ice.

When Aleister removed the newly formed Phantom Demon Card from within—

In an instant, freezing frost scattered in all directions. The mirrors, bed, and furniture in the room were suddenly covered in a layer of frost. Honey Badger instinctively raised a hand to shield her face... Even so, frost still clung to the hem of her clothes.

The Phantom Demon Card, forged from pure ice, gradually shed its frosty covering.

Equipment Card: Withered Silence (Death)

Requirement: Water 4 or Darkness 4

Action, Summon, Recast

Effect: Summon "Withered Silence" (Extraordinary Variant Weapon—Polearm Scythe, ultra-light, sharp, cold, possessing the Extraordinary Module "Withered Silence")

Effect: Use again and swing the scythe, launching nine invisible blades that automatically lock onto all targets previously damaged by the wielder.

Variant Trait: Reverse Blade (It only has a blade on the side facing you.)

Extraordinary Module—Withered Silence: Whenever its damage causes bleeding or dismemberment, that attack instead reduces the target's Maximum Life. This effect is also treated as the effect of the Aging Curse with the same name. Any creature killed by its damage, or any limb severed by it, will turn into a shattered ice sculpture.

—Without a doubt.

Compared to the Thunder Strike Halberd made by the demon Punishment Demon, which was on the same level as the Winter Demon, this was a weapon far better suited to Aleister.

It could exert extremely powerful suppression against races with tenacious vitality, such as the Child of the Moon—and this suppression was not especially specialized, but rather fairly universal.

As long as it dealt damage, it could directly chop down the target's Health Bar limit! The only problem was that it was a polearm scythe. A scythe, an agricultural tool for reaping wheat, was