The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 889: Artifact Refinement



After hearing Valefor's comment, the soul fire in Thanatos's empty eye sockets flickered with pain.

However, his pain only lasted a moment before it changed into a smile-like expression.

"Since Your Excellency fancies this Humble One's cloak, I will give it to you as a congratulatory gift for ascending the seat of Heavenly Devil," Thanatos offered his cloak of darkness with hidden reluctance and became bone-naked.

[Cloak of Darkness and Death (Pseudo-Rank 7 Divine Artifact)]

Description: An extreme concentration of death and darkness energies that took a hundred thousand years to form naturally. It became a defensive-storage-type divine artifact after an inept Divine Lord refined it for ten thousand years.

Abilities: Can resist the magical attacks of Peak Rank 6 Divine Beings and below, naturally attract and absorb nearby death and darkness energies, store matter, and increase comprehension speed in related laws when worn.

Creator: Made by Divine Lord Mahi Tabakrum 450,000 years ago.

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Valefor inspected the [Cloak of Darkness and Death] with [Fourth Dimensional Sense] before nodding with approval.

The [Cloak of Darkness and Death] possessed the storage capacity of a small realm, but it was only used to store death energy and nothing else.

However, even without any other treasure or resource, giving up the [Cloak of Darkness and Death] alone was enough to make Thanatos feel a tremendous loss.

"Relax. I won't take your cloak for nothing," Valefor assured.

Shortly after, he snapped off a small branch from the [Decamillenium-Year Blazewood Tree] and offered it to Thanatos.

Compared to the thick trunk, the small branch was much smaller. Thus, it took Valefor little effort to separate from the main tree.

"Take it," Valefor casually tossed the branch and said, "If you can find supplementary materials of the same quality and a good artificer, it's not impossible to create a Pseudo True Divinity-rank weapon or tool."

"If you can't, it's still not bad to use it as a fire carrier of the [Eternal Purpleflame]," Valefor stated.

The [Eternal Purpleflame] could even burn Divine Emperors to death. Thus, objects that could contain such a destructive fire were undoubtedly very valuable.

That said, whether the said objects could become a weapon that effectively utilized the [Eternal Purpleflame] depended on the refiner.

After all, a weapon that also burned its own user or could not kill its intended target was a useless weapon.

"Thank you, Your Excellency," Thanatos said with a strained expression.

The [Decamillenium-Year Blazewood Branch] was indeed a very valuable material, but it wasn't useful to him compared to the [Cloak of Darkness and Death].

Furthermore, he couldn't sell or trade it for something actually useful since it would only spark endless greed.

Gehenna would no longer have peaceful days if that happened.

"I'm something of an artificer myself. But if you want to commission me, you'll have to pay the appropriate price. So, how about it? Would you like to commission me?" Valefor asked with a smile.

Thanatos shivered at Valefor's wolfish smile.

If he actually agreed to that, it would definitely cost him another arm and leg, if not more. Was this how others felt when he made deals with them?

"Thank you for the offer, but I will have to think about it, Your Excellency," Thanatos wryly replied.

"Alright," Valefor acknowledged.

Shortly after Thanatos finally left, Valefor focused on the two items he had obtained: the [Cloak of Darkness and Death] and the [Decamillenium-Year Blazewood Tree].

Despite being butt-naked, Valefor had no intention of wearing the [Cloak of Darkness and Death] to cover himself.

No, he had other plans for it.

Valefor temporarily sealed the [Cloak of Darkness and Death] within a barrier of asura power before storing it inside the Profound Pearl of Life, where Vaan and Wood Spirits currently resided.

After all, he focused on the [Decamillenium-Year Blazewood Tree].

Once he picked a particularly long branch of moderate thickness, he proceeded to remove it from the main tree to use it as a pole.

Then, he took the [Cloak of Darkness and Death] back out, removed its asura barrier, and tied it to the [Decamillenium-Year Blazewood Pole], turning it into a flag.

However, in its current state, the flag wasn't considered a single item; it was just two objects tied together.

As such, Valefor took out some divine-rank magical plants from the Garden of Thyia, ground them into a sticky herbal extract, and applied it to the two tied points on the flag.

After further channeling life energy from the Profound Pearl of Life into the black flag, the herbal extract-covered [Decamillenium-Year Blazewood Pole] seemingly came back to life.

It absorbed the herbal extract to grow new branches out of its charcoal-burnt body. Its newly grown branches became the new fuse connecting [Decamillenium-Year Blazewood Pole] and [Cloak of Darkness and Death].

When that happened, the death energy from the cloak and the life energy from the wooden pole began clashing due to their opposing affinities.

However, such a problem didn't concern Valefor.

With the power of the Asura Law, he killed their clashing properties with a single slice. In that instant, two opposing energies became strangely docile despite contact with each other.

Such was possible with the Asura Law.

Although the Asura Law was a killing law full of blood and slaughter, who or what to slay was up to the user. Mediocre users could only kill other beings, while skilled users could slay anything, even intangible things like ideas and concepts.

An Origin Law that had transcended the heavens was that capable.

Nevertheless, Valefor wasn't satisfied after killing the conflict of the two opposing energies. He channeled the Asura Law into his fingertips and inscribed the [Connection], [Flow], and [Share] runes onto the newly-grown wooden parts instead of a simple [Merge] rune.

Such runic inscription was only possible since the newly-grown wooden parts were far softer than the [Decamillenium-Year Blazewood] parts.

After all, those new parts had never been tempered by the [Eternal Purpleflame] and survived for countless years.

Nevertheless, after Valefor completed his three sets of runic inscriptions, he watched the attributes from the [Cloak of Darkness and Death] and the [Decamillenium-Year BlazewoodNôv(el)B\\jnn

Pole] flow into each other.

The newly-grown wooden parts were strengthened continuously under the power of the two materials becoming one. It didn't stop until it was sturdy as Rank 7 divine materials.

In that instant, the black flag had truly become a single entity. A single [Merge] rune wouldn't

have produced the same result.

Even so, Valefor still considered his newly-refined divine artifact incomplete.