Cassandra's Mission

Third: Death Bringer's Scythe, an active offensive thaumaturgy.

This thaumaturgy was extremely similar to Shade's Moonbeam Greatsword. Both summoned a Spiritual Weapon from the void—a weapon formed of elements, existing somewhere between the physical and incorporeal.

The Moonbeam Greatsword was exceptionally sharp and dealt special damage to evil creatures, while Death Bringer's Scythe hindered wounds from healing and dealt special damage to the undead and undead creatures.

Thaumaturgies of this sort were generally quite precious, because their effects increased dramatically alongside a Ring Arcanist's own level and could easily produce chain effects with the other Spirit Runes the Ring Arcanist possessed. If Priest Augustus had not been willing to provide it for free, Shade would have needed to spend at least as many Gold Pounds as the materials cost for rescuing the priest just to see information on this thaumaturgy.

"This is interesting."

Although Shade already had the Moonbeam Greatsword and personally preferred sword-type weapons, there was no harm in mastering another weapon. A scythe also fell within the Blade of Disordered Time-Space's range of application, and it was clearly somewhat longer than the Moonbeam Greatsword.

"The learning requirements, aside from Spirit Runes, include having had a near-death experience. That's easy—I even truly stepped into death. And it requires Spellcasting Materials: a small piece of black cloth. Oh, that's really cheap."

Shade turned the page:

"Ritual materials: 30 pounds of Black Crystal, approximately 13.6 kilograms; one Dead's Imprint; two Deep Sea Undead Fish; Klelart Special Forged Steel."

Aside from the Black Crystal, Shade had not even heard of the other materials. So he skipped over the list of seventeen materials and looked directly at the final estimate:

"Most of these materials rarely circulate on the market, making them difficult to price. But if one truly has the connections to acquire