"Have you ever heard of the Haggiri clan?"
Fen asked a simple rhetorical question. Not only was he a professional weapons dealer in Midland, he was also surprised by the store owner who knew the history of weapons very well. Even Lin, a time traveler, was also surprised.
If there is one thing in common among the heroic legends, brave stories, and king-builders in Lost Land, it must be the weapons they use, the magical weapons made by the Haggiri clan. Even the weapons used by some gods or demons also come from the Haggiri clan. The name of Haggiri can be traced back to the war between gods and demons before the birth of the old gods, as well as the battle of creation.
The meaning of the word "boxakiri" means that the weapon is so sharp that it will destroy the sheath or box in which it is stored. The owner can only carry it in other ways and cannot store it.
I heard that the Haggiri clan’s weapons choose their owners, and not just anyone can hold them. This also made the shop owner think: "If you put it this way, the reason why the previous holders committed suicide was not that the weapons were cursed, but because they were not qualified to own the weapons of the Haggiri clan?"
Lin asked: "The so-called rumor that it cannot be used except by those who have been recognized doesn't mean it literally means 'unusable'?"
"Originally, I thought so too. But it is true that in the rumors, there is no mention of what will happen if someone who is not qualified holds it. If it is suicide, it can indeed be explained that people who are not recognized cannot use it."
When the two magicians who walked in by chance revealed the origin of this 'cursed' weapon, the shop owner was not greedy at all. Instead, he started chatting with Lin. For him, goods that cannot be used have no value in buying and selling.
Although he can sell this sword at a high price among some special groups under the name of 'Shakiri'. But before, everyone avoided it out of fear and threw this trouble into their own hands. The family members of those who committed suicide will only be grateful that they helped them solve their troubles.
And the people attracted by the name of 'Hakakiri' are either rich or noble. If this kind of person dies, this will be the beginning of trouble. Maybe there's someone in there that you can't afford to offend.
Rather than looking for that kind of trouble, it's better to give this 'good thing' away on the original terms.
Different from the shop owner's thinking, Lin was thinking about how to make weapons so as to achieve the two conditions of 'selecting users' and 'excluding those who are not suitable'. He thought to himself about several possible methods. If it were a conditional curse, it would at most prevent people who did not meet the conditions from using the special ability of a certain item or weapon, but there was no way to make the holder 'commit suicide'.
It is not very difficult for weapons or props to use magicians' methods to generate consciousness. Maybe that can achieve 'selection', but how to make unqualified holders commit suicide? It's like two completely unrelated topics thrust together. But all the other methods that someone could imagine were overthrown by him one by one.
Someone who has been puzzled can only ask a certain lich in the end: "How do the people of the Haggiri clan be able to distinguish the qualifications of the holder? If every weapon has consciousness, then what? How did you do it?"
Fen said in confusion: "A member of the Haggiri clan? Did you misunderstand something?"
"Misunderstanding? What do you mean?"
Fen held up the strange weapon on the table with both hands and said, "It is a member of the Haggiri clan."
According to what a certain lich said, the Haggiri clan was not referring to the maker of this weapon, but the weapon itself. So Lin pointed at this strange-looking weapon in surprise and asked, "You mean, this weapon is actually a living thing?"
"Creature? Well, you can describe it that way. After all, it can grow, recover itself when damaged, and change its appearance according to the owner's wishes. These are not things that ordinary artifacts can do."
This secret is undoubtedly quite shocking. However, Lin's acceptance level was much higher than that of the weapon shop owner. He quickly returned to his normal expression. After all, his own origin was also beyond the scope of common sense.
He took the Hakiri from Fen's hand and looked at it carefully. The touch on the hand is as cold as metal, without any of the characteristics of earth's biology and common understanding of living things.
But those knowledge are based on carbon-based life and are extended, what about non-carbon-based organisms? How to calculate AI artificial intelligence? Can humans be so arrogant as to think that only things defined by humans as living things can be considered to have life?
: Boy, what are you thinking about?
A 'voice' suddenly flashed in my mind. Lin immediately understood the content and looked at the Hakiri in his hand in astonishment. Is this talking to itself?
: I’m not telling you. Could it be that Ah Piao is telling you? Hey, Ah Piao? Well, you actually have this interesting concept in your consciousness.
This thing can actually read your own mind! Someone's first thought is, of course, to kill someone to silence him... to destroy his sword to silence him. After all, he hides too many secrets in his heart.
:Want to destroy me, outsider? You can't do it. The only people who can hurt me are my people. But you don't have to worry so much. Although I don't come from the same place as you, I'm not a native... creature of this world either. Just use your words. And I don’t have unlimited peek into your heart. I can only see those thoughts when they appear in your cerebral cortex. It's like your first reaction just now wasn't actually about murder, it was just a sentence, 'I saw a ghost'.
"So, when I walked into this store just now, I noticed you. Was it actually you calling me?" Lin asked.
: Why should I call a weak human being like you? If that devil hadn't revealed my identity, I wouldn't have bothered to care about you at all.
"You know her?"
: The calendar of this world, the demon king thousands of years ago, Fenni Tikal. Of course I know her, especially since she received the help of many of my tribesmen to fight against another group of my tribesmen. I was one of them at that time.
Someone turned around and asked a certain lich: "Have you ever gotten any other Hakiri before?"
"Me? Yes, how did you know? Oh, you must have been talking to it, right?"
"Well, it said it recognized you. It's because you got a lot of sakuri including it before, but you fought hard with others and destroyed a lot of them."
Fen looked nostalgic and said: "At that time, in order to fight against the guards of the old gods, I did collect a lot for my subordinates to use. There is no other way. The box cutter is too hard. In addition to using other box cutters, , there is absolutely no way to deal with it. So, is it planning to settle accounts when it mentions this? I really want to try it, whether it can cut Hakakiri with the ship-cutting sword."
:Hmph, there is no weapon that I can't change. No matter what the ship-cutting sword she mentioned looks like, as long as it is of the same shape, there is no possibility of failure for us and the Haggiri clan.
However, one person did not have any objection to the talk of the weapon in his hand. Instead, he excitedly imagined the image of his ideal weapon in his mind and asked happily: "Is there any way you can change it to look like that?"
:……no……
"Tsk, that's really bad. It's just a GunBuster that's only 250 meters tall. I don't want you to become an SDF-1_Macross with a total length of 1,210 meters. That's between nine and eleven meters Is the Gundom okay? What about the VOTOMS that are about three meters high?"
:...Sorry, please think of some 'hand-held' weapons, can you?
"Hum! I thought I could just mount the giant robot without climbing the technology tree." Someone said with a disdainful curl of his lips. My evaluation of Haggiri has fallen below the passing line, hovering near the garbage rating.
And of course a certain weapon was born with doubts about the sword. How does the word 'weapon' define this man?
Lin put the legendary weapon back on the table in disgust, and asked Fen: "What are you going to do with this thing? The ship-cutting sword alone has caused us quite a lot of trouble. The Hakakiri is Even I know about the legendary weapons, and those big shots who like to use good things to enhance their status, won’t they come to us for trouble?”
"The only person who might reveal that we have such a thing is..." While thinking about it, Fen and someone cast their sights on the owner of the weapons store.
How could this person who knew the world well not understand the purpose of this look. He quickly raised his hands in a gesture of surrender and said: "His Majesty Tikal and Lord Tripwood are famous. How could I, a small shop, choose to cause trouble for them? I will only listen to that kind of thing. I will gain experience." , and then it rots in the stomach. How dare you spread it everywhere."
When doing business, the first priority is the circulation of information. To be able to run a weapons store in a prosperous river port city, the owner is not a rookie who knows nothing about other things except swords.
From the words and appearance of the two magicians, it was easy for him to determine their identities. Especially that keyword, 'ship-cutting knife', has been the most frequently discussed topic recently. The relevant background is naturally familiar to me.
Now that you know the identity of the other party, you have fewer options on how to deal with it. Especially if you bet that the other party is a fake, and then find a way to keep the benefits of Hakiri... this is a gamble with your life. And according to my own judgment, the chance of losing is very high.
Take a step back and think about it, if the other party is really fake, what have you lost? It's just a cursed weapon that was exchanged for a few Danba (copper coins). Therefore, the shop owner made his choice without hesitation. He treated this thing as if he had never seen it before. Also in most of the more credible versions, these two are not bloodthirsty, so he can maintain such a calm appearance, otherwise his legs would have weakened long ago.
As for the weapons store owner's attitude, Fen didn't go into it any further, because the other person was just an insignificant person. On the contrary, it was someone's disgusting attitude that made her curious. Question: "Are you really not interested in this legendary weapon?"
"You also know that once I use the Flash Technique, all good things will be destroyed. If you don't want it, just leave it for someone who is destined."
:Hello! I'm so bad, what if no one else is?
Even though the thing had left his hand, Haggiri's words still appeared in someone's mind.
Fen put his index finger against his lips and said thoughtfully: "I remember hearing other Haggiris say that they come from a higher-level world, which is different from the lost world. That's what I heard at the time, but now that I think about it, Maybe they actually come from one of the higher-dimensional worlds we understand. In this way, maybe it itself can resist high-dimensional contamination and does not need additional protection."
At this reminder, Lin suddenly took Hagiri's hand again and asked directly: "Can you really travel through the dimensional space without getting hurt?"
: Although I still don’t know what exactly you mean by dimensional space. But if it’s the kind of storm related to the World Tree, then I shouldn’t have a problem. Because my family was brought here from other worlds by the World Tree.
Someone's eyes immediately lit up!
