The halves of the key slammed together, and suddenly Leonel felt as though the world had been enveloped in a seal.
He was taken aback for a moment before his eyes blazed with realization. This was... truly too convenient.
This key couldn't be considered to be a God Armament. A God Armament was not only a classification of powerful weapons but also a sub-class of treasures that allowed themselves to fuse with flesh and blood.
Of course, The Hourglass was also capable of this. It was just that El'Rion hadn't reached this step yet, and it was also quite dangerous to form such synergy with it.
But that was also why it had the weight of a world in Leonel's hands, but had been as light as a feather in El'Rion's.
Under this sort of classification, this enormous golden key that rose up like a pillar into the skies certainly wasn't a God Armament. However, despite not being one, if Leonel was correct, it would light up at least 50 runes on the Truth Pillar. And that was a conservative estimate.
This golden key was capable of forming its own world within a world. It had its own World Spirit, and in this way, it was a lot like Anastasia, but far less sentient and only designed to do a single thing.
Anastasia was far more flexible, and though she had her flaws, she was more like a true human than any World Spirit Leonel had ever seen before.
But this golden key's World Spirit was pretty much a hollow husk. It was only designed to form a Domain within a world that could act as its own personal space.
Why was it that Leonel was so excited about this treasure? It was because it was exactly what he needed.
If he was correct, the Sylvans definitely had more than one of this treasure, and likely had many. That meant it was probably common enough that members of the God Race would recognize it and understand its weaknesses.
The reason he made this deduction was that they had sent two youths with this treasure, and their standing in their Clan wasn't nearly as high as El'Rion's to his.
In addition, it had to be remembered that when El'Rion wielded The Hourglass, he was doing it at the behest of the entire Pluto Race. The Pluto Race had only appeared on Earth to repay a favor they owed the Fawkes.
In that case, it made much more sense for him to have such a valuable treasure on him, especially since an Ancestor of the Void Race eventually got involved.
That was all to say that while he might be able to gamble that the Demi-Gods wouldn't see through the weakness of this treasure, the Gods certainly would.
That only left one option for him.
He had to modify this treasure to suit him.
Leonel was worried about doing this at all. The most valuable part of this treasure was the World Spirit itself. Its existence was what allowed it to function the way it did. Though the ores used to form it were likewise incredibly valuable God Grade materials, they were secondary.
He was confident that with his current level of skill, he could modify this treasure. It would just take him time.
One might wonder, then, what would happen to the Spirituals in the meantime. And quite frankly... Leonel didn't care.
That wasn't because he was cruel... but rather because he was certain he knew who had betrayed his location.
There was only one way Willowyn could have intercepted him like this, and that answer lay with the Spirituals.Follow the latest novels at novel35.com