"Not enough. Mechanical modification alone was still insufficient to erase the Destruction Set's effect on its user's mind." Feeling the oppressive, terrifying power emanating from the Destruction Set, Saine sighed inwardly.
The next moment, another streak of white light rose from within the Destruction Set.
The light it had emitted before was blue—the Mechanical Light.
The white light now shining forth was the Light of Hope Saine wielded.
As an "All-Element Magician," this was one of the benefits: he had dabbled in nearly everything and was proficient in a little of everything.
With that glimmer of Light of Hope, Saine finally cast off the Destruction Set's interference with his mind.
However, gazing at the Destruction Set already equipped on his body, Saine remarked, "There is no real problem when I alone use it."
"But if we want to completely eliminate the Destruction Set's negative effects and turn it into equipment any knight of the Wizard Civilization can use, that truly won't be easy."
"Even if I subject it to deep modifications afterward, I can only lessen some of the destructive urges' erosion of the user."
"Not to mention that the Destruction Set may undergo some kind of transformation and advancement later." Saine sighed.
A forbidden artifact was still a forbidden artifact. During the Dimensional Hegemony between the Evil Tide Civilization and the Decayed Civilization, both civilizations had, in fact, used forbidden artifacts.
Yet equipment like forbidden artifacts injured the enemy and oneself alike.
Aside from the beginning, when the Evil Tide Civilization had used a forbidden artifact to achieve excellent results in the process of killing the Bone Emperor—
The later gains the two Top-Level Civilizations achieved with forbidden artifacts during the Dimensional Hegemony had generally been lackluster.
Some forbidden artifacts even failed to harm the enemy much, instead throwing