After putting away the "Flesh Trigger" he had made for Fors, Abner picked up the wooden hilt lying to one side.
Its material made it clear that its main component was the trunk of the Elder Tree, with several Shadow Stones embedded at the top of the hilt.
The central Shadow Stone had been stamped with a cylindrical groove, surrounded by all kinds of runes.
Next, Abner casually took a white cylindrical crystal from a box on the forging table that contained white, green, and purple crystals, and inserted it into the groove in the Shadow Stone on the hilt.
—If one looked closely, one could see a feather sealed within the white crystal.
In an instant, the hilt transformed into a nearly two-meter-long polearm scythe with a black blade.
"When I pulled out Vincent Miranda's Historical Projection in Misty Town and used Pale Flame to 'clean the ground,' I used the Pure White Eye to analyze it...
"Unfortunately, its level was too high. I simply couldn't learn it, and the ability model I analyzed was terribly incomplete, with less than one percent of its original power. Even after the Mysticism Mentor's abilities repeatedly patched it up, it was only stronger than an ordinary Sequence 5. For me, who already possessed the Magic Mirror, it was rather useless...
"So, I had always wanted to use the Pure White Eye to Bestow this ability—or rather, the simplified Pale Flame Secret Art I had created—upon a material capable of bearing it, turning it into a charm or a mystical item.
"I hadn't been able to succeed before... But now, a crystal made from that mutated feather and a trace of aura I had extracted from the Book of the Dead, together with the support of the Elder Tree's Omnipotence attribute, could indeed