Chapter 56 - Main Profound Veins

After Medivh's question, Asil replied embarrassingly: "Big Brother Medivh, you don't really need to spend that much for me. You're embarrassing me. I'll but my own weapon before I go. You really don't have to wear yourself out."

Medivh spoke immediately, sulking and sighing: "PFF... Asil, we're friends, why are you talking about spending or fatigue. Wouldn't you do the same if you were me?"

"I would. But Big Brother Medivh..."

Medivh immediately started talking to silence him when Asil was going to find an excuse: "there are no buts. And the weapon you're going to buy is a normal weapon. What you can do with normal weapons is limited. Although it is possible to actually defeat people above your own level, this is true when your opponent uses normal weapons. If your opponent uses a profound weapon, you can lose that superiority completely. While your own profound power is important in a real fight, profound techniques, profound arts, your ability to control profound energy, and, of course, the weapons you use are also important. For example, if you fight against someone who used the same techniques and the profound art that you knew. Even your profound power is one or two levels higher than them, If the weapon you are using is normal, while the weapon used by your opponent is a profound weapon, you will lose unless there is a miracle."

Medivh paused after talking and waited for Asil's reply. Asil, in fact, knew about the profound power that Medivh mentioned. But since the place, Asil has grown up, the Star Plain is a weak place, and far from big cities, the profound weapons were rare.  One of the most prestigious clans in the Star Plain, Mirza Clan, had a maximum of twenty of them. These weapons were only used in the specials duels or when battling with other clans. So Asil, even though he heard their names, did not know their powers or if they had different levels among them.

After a brief silence, Asil spoke: "but Big Brother Medivh, profound weapons are very rare things. How do we find one of them?"

Medivh was saddened in his heart after his reply and briefly remained silent. The reason for his grief was that Asil thought profound weapons were very rare things. This proved that he grew up in a remote and powerless place and also did not live in good conditions. Because although profound weapons were rare, this rarity was only true in small cities and places with a low average of profound power. The profound weapons were common in big cities, but of course, there were are ones even in these cities.

Medivh took a deep breath and explained to the Asil: "Asil, profound weapons are things that are not very rare in great kingdoms and developed cities like this place. The profound weapons also have levels among them, such as profound power. Mainly, the profound weapons are limited with their profound power realms and every main level has three sub-levels. These main levels continue as, like our profound power realms, Elementary, Nascent, Core, and Natural. Each level, as I said, has three sub-levels and these are low level, middle level, and high level."

"To explain better, the layout is as follows: low-level elementary profound weapon, middle-level elementary profound, high-level elementary profound weapon, low-level nascent profound weapon. As the levels of profound weapons increase, so do their strength, value, and, naturally, their rarity. Since this is a big city, I think we can only find a high-level elementary profound weapon at most unless we attend an auction, but I can't say that it is likely. If we go to the auction, we can find better quality weapons there, but if we get them, it will certainly attract attention and bring us more harm than good on the missions we're going to. So, I will buy you a middle-level elementary profound weapon. So that's the situation. Is there anything you want to ask?"

Asil thought briefly, and then asked two questions that stuck in his mind in Medivh's speech: "Big Brother Medivh, there are three things I wonder about. First, what is the difference between an ordinary weapon and a low-level elementary profound weapon? Second, how big a difference there is between each level of profound weapons. Third, when you were counting the main levels, you said it goes like Elementary, Nascent, Core, and Natural. Are there any profound weapons that are superior to Natural Profound weapons?"

Against Asil's questions, Medivh put on a satisfied expression and answered his questions immediately: "Asil, these are really good questions. Let me put it to you simply as an answer to your first question. Normal weapons have a limit on how much profound energy they can handle, meaning that if you transfer more of your profound energy to these weapons than your limit, the swords will fall apart in your hand. Also, with these weapons, you need to expend effort and a high amount of profound energy to harm someone who has a solid profound energy defense. For example, when you were fighting in the arena, you were not using profound energy when you were attacking, and your attacks had almost no effect on your opponents. But with profound weapons, it's different."

"They have more energy handling limits and they have their own energy. So even if you don't use profound energy when you attack, you do almost the same damage as a weapon that you do with a normal weapon and use profound energy when you do it. If you use your own profound energy to do this attack, the damage will naturally increase. That's the advantage of profound weapons."

"As for the second question. I'd say there's a big difference between each level. A mid-level weapon has a heavy superiority over a low-level weapon. Of course, a high-level weapon naturally has an advantage over a mid-level weapon. If I answer your last question."

"Although I don't think you know much, the Natural Profound Realm is not the last of the profound realms. Naturally, the last of the profound weapons are not natural profound weapons. But it would be better for you not to know what's beyond the Natural Profound Realm. If you have no other questions, I'm leaving now. You can do whatever you want after you finish dinner. Don't wait up for me at night, I probably won't come, so I'll see you in the morning."

After Medivh's words, Asil was shocked to his bones. For him, while the Natural Profound Realm was even a myth within the Legends, Medivh said that the upper limit of the Profound Realms was not this mythical realm. Just thinking about it made Asil shudder. His master Sirius despised every person he saw before. When it came to his mind, Asil began to believe more in the possibility that he, too, might be at a higher level than in the Natural Profound Realm. And his Master wasn't the only person likely to be in that realm. And the skinny guy who brought Asil here, whom his master called a maniac. Asil temporarily suspended this thought to ask his master about it later and thanked Medivh.

Medivh, smiling politely, approved with a nod, and then got up from the dining table and head toward the door. When he came to the door, he slowly raised his hand and held the handle of the door; but at that moment his movements stopped for a while, and in a solemn tone he asked Asil a question: "Asil, there was someone beside me when I was talking to you in Kastor. His name was Baran if I remember correctly. Do you want me to kill him?"

Medivh had asked that question very seriously, and when he asked that question, the room was completely silent. Medivh made no sound after asking his question and patiently waited for Asil's answer.

After his question, Asil's heart filled with anger, and his eyes began to lose their light from anger. If  Asil thought of the people he hated the most and made them into a list, the top of that list would definitely be Baran's name. Baran had tortured him mercilessly, and because he was powerless at the time, he was unable to do anything to respond.

But it was different now. At this time Asil's Profound power was in the fourth level of the Elementary Profound Realm, which meant that as profound power he was only one level lower than Baran's profound power. But even so, Asil was sure he could kill Baran with his current power. But even if he could do it, he couldn't do it with his current power. After all, Baran had powerful people behind him, and if he killed him with his current power, it would just be like preparing his own death by his own hand.

However, in Asil's opinion, this did not apply to Medivh. Asil thought that Medivh's background was as strong as Baran's, and that it was likely that his background was even stronger. So if he accepted Medivh's offer and Medivh killed Baran, that meant he would get rid of the person he hated most.

But would Asil do such a thing?

Of course not! To do so would mean to cause a wound in his soul that would not last forever. He would feel helpless every day as he could not avenge Baran with his own hands. This sense of helplessness would have caused him to clog up at some point in the future and not be able to go any further.. More important than that, it would tarnish his pride and honor. He may have been weak, but he was not proud enough to make others do it when he could settle his own affairs in the future!