Blue Water wasn’t the only thing passed down through the royal family of the Holy Kingdom of Crystania. On the first day of the twelfth year of those with the lineage, they had the chance to also receive the unique skill Unlimited Sword Glint.
It was called “unique” because not once had it ever manifested in anyone else when an heir was still alive, nor had it ever manifested in those with no blood ties to the family. Normally, this meant it often showed up in the heir’s grandchild or great-grandchild, but skipping several generations wasn’t uncommon. Despite the infrequency of its appearance, however, this skill more than lived up to its reputation.
Naturally, even the expansive database of talents maintained by the administrators, including those in the Adventurer’s Guild, had no record of this skill. The only sources of information on it were the records of Crystania’s military exploits from over two centuries prior when it had been a world power, mostly kept by countries that had picked a fight with the Kingdom of Magic and lost. According to them, whatever and whomever the Crystanian king targeted would be sliced by countless flying slashes imbued with magic upon entering their field of view. Specific examples included a force of over ten thousand being chopped up with a glare and an impregnable fortress being sliced and diced until it collapsed like a sandcastle.
Those not in the know might think these feats myth or legend, but they were history, albeit slightly exaggerated here or there. Crystania had possessed the strength to back up its position as one of the Five World Powers, and most of that strength had lain with its king. In this world, it was unthinkable for a weak king to sit on top of a powerful nation—it was the duty of a monarch to pull their country up, and for that, they needed strength befitting their station. In the same way, Emelia, now the strongest of the Four World Powers but previously having been neck and neck with Istekario for ages, was ruled by a family possessing a unique skill.
If Emelia’s Absolutus was the perfect shield, the world saw Crystania’s Unlimited Sword Glint as the perfect spear. There were countless theories about what would happen if they clashed, but there was no record of it ever having happened. Now, however, times were different. Emelia was already under Sol’s wing, and Crystania was quickly going the same route. If Sol wanted, he could settle this paradoxical debate whenever he chose.
More important was the fact that he now had on his side three of the five cards he had seen when using Summoning and two unique skill holders. His hand was growing slowly but steadily. That raised the question of what would happen when he collected them all, what enemy he might be facing that would require him to have the aid of these singular beings. Was he playing a PvE game, where he would ultimately be fighting the world, or was this a PvP game, where he would be fighting another who also possessed such gathered strength?
Only time would tell.