The blade was pitch-black, but a layer of dark gold light flowed along its edge.
The glow shifted and swirled.
One glance was enough to tell it was no ordinary item.
Its quality was more than one grade above the Curios Yang Yong had forged before!
Yang Yong took hold of the short blade.
The instant it touched his hand, a stream of information flooded his mind...
[Shadow-Killing Blade] [Allows teleportation attacks through shadows, with an attack range of five meters] [Cost of use: briefly lose your sense of direction for three seconds after each use]
Yang Yong was stunned.
This cost of use was far too reasonable!
So reasonable that it hardly seemed like something he had forged!
He knew that every pointer the little girl had given him had been exactly right.
Her understanding of forging ran far deeper than his.
Yang Yong turned to look at the little girl.
This time, he did not pretend he could not see her.
Instead, he looked straight at her.
Their eyes met.
The little girl was visibly startled and shrank back a little, but she did not vanish outright as she had before.
She stood there, looking timidly at Yang Yong.
"What... is your name?"
Yang Yong asked, keeping his voice as gentle as possible.
The little girl opened her mouth as though she wanted to say something, then closed it again.
Her figure began to flicker.
Like a television picture with poor reception.
Then...
She vanished.
Yang Yong stood where he was, gazing at that empty patch of space, but the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.
He knew he had taken the first step.
The little girl was beginning to be willing to communicate with him.
And just as Yang Yong was interacting with the mysterious