"The champion's sword?"
"Oh, you mean Mika Kivasa! That is an extraordinary sword."
"It holds a lofty status in my homeland, and once helped mythical heroes slay demons and vanquish evil!"
"At the same time, it is also a sword for selecting rulers. It is said that the ancestral kings of Caravala all received a response from this treasured sword, thus gaining the qualifications to claim the throne."
"According to tradition, successive kings would plunge the sword into a stone stele, and only the hero recognized by the sword could pull it out and succeed to the throne."
"What kind of biometric technology is this?" Yan Huan paused, chopsticks in hand.
"Haha, those are all legends of the past. No one has seen it nowadays," Pavor replied.
Yan Huan thought for a moment and asked:
"Then why not keep such a fine sword?"
"Well..."
Pavor lowered his head, pondered for a moment, and replied:
"For one, times have changed. The parliament was established, and the myth of pulling the sword to claim the throne became a joke long ago."
"Secondly, the one who pulled this sword out and recognized its Xianzhou origin was not a Caravalan, but an off-world traveler."
"Although it is an antique of considerable historical value to Caravala, it doesn't belong to this world after all."
Pavor scratched his head and said sheepishly:
"Regarding whether or not to send the sword back, the old fogies in the parliament argued about it, but reached a rare consensus."
"That is to let Mika Kivasa return to where it belongs."
"I think there couldn't be a better arrangement."
Yan Huan nodded slightly, uninspired by any mythical stories.
The primary reason the Caravalan parliament decided to send the sword back to the Xianzhou Alliance was most likely not to let it