Name: Yatsuka Nightstar. Age: 15. Height: 172 cm. Weight: 64 kg. Scroll skills: hunter's notes, cook's notes, smithing notes, Bushido Style, Valor Style, guild style, Netherworld Breathing Technique, Three Body Technique, Six Powers (Moonwalk). Equipment: Guild Set, Nichirin Blade, Rathalos Long Sword, Yian Kut-Ku Heavy Bowgun. Items: seastone, 50 kg; Kunai ×6; Throwing Knife ×2; Poison Knife ×10; Solar-Powered Electric Toothbrush ×1; Senzu Bean ×1... Physique: arch-tempered Xeno'jiiva physique. Active skills: Elder Dragon's Pressure, Flame Burst, Hellfire Blast. Special skill: netherworld fire. Combat rating: B+. Exchange points: 25,784.
Ye Chen checked his status panel as he walked back to his base, then went into seclusion.
Previously, he hadn't put much research into the Monster Hunter Shop's weapons because they had no special effectiveness against demons, and hardly any demons could threaten him anyway.
But this time, he had realized a few things.
His Nichirin Blade still fell short in sharpness and hardness. Besides, some demons could overcome decapitation!
Although the shop's weapons were somewhat awkward to use here without any special effectiveness against demons, there seemed to be a way around that.
"System, redeem the Xeno'jiiva Long Sword."
Since he already had a Xeno'jiiva physique, and netherworld fire was his main special means of attack, Ye Chen chose its weapon as his regular weapon going forward.
After all, it was made from Xeno'jiiva materials, so it should work better with his netherworld fire coating.
[Ding. Spend 2,800 exchange points to redeem the Xeno'jiiva Long Sword. Confirm?]
"Confirm."
Soon, a Long Sword adorned with two blue-white flames along its edges appeared before him. But Ye Chen didn't stop there. He took out a stone.
A closer look revealed that the stone in his hand was the very same tamahagane used to forge Nichirin Blades!
"If I use