Thanks to Quun’s Chainblade, we managed to take down Yggdrasil without much of a fuss. In the end, the Overlord sawed its head right off. Like Doc Babylon said, it really did seem like something we could get some good use out of... Sure, it couldn’t slice right through something all at once, but in exchange, if you were persistent enough, it was guaranteed to make it through. Wouldn’t that account for the enemies’ weapons too?
If I had to list any negatives, it was that wires and any other threadlike materials could very easily get tangled in it. Yggdrasil’s body had a lot of little vines that were getting all caught up in it. Then again, when it got too wrapped up in the Chainblade, the thing ended up cutting right through them all anyway, so it never stopped rotating. Though, if something like phrasium rope or wire was to get caught up in it, it’d probably be too tough to immediately slash through it and therefore jam the thing. I did make sure to tell the wielders that, of course.
Anyway, we’d learned that we could, in fact, make use of it, so we’d mass-produce more and give it to those who wanted one. The body of the Kyklops were made of a special alloy that used orichalcum—it could be cut with phrasium, so we’d almost definitely find some use for the Chainblade.
The wicked vessels unfortunately would be impossible, however. They might be able to chip them in some way, but they’d immediately repair themselves. Was there really no choice but to use a sacred treasure to take down another sacred treasure? Not that wicked vessels were sacred treasures per se, of course.
On a related topic, we’d discovered a slight mishap with the sacred treasure. We tested using the sacred treasure with a Frame Gear in the fight with Yggdrasil. Thanks to the Optimization trait it had, it adjusted its size depending on its wielder. Linne had been a little uncertain about it, but she’d been able to equip the gauntlets to the Gerhilde just fine. This wasn’t a problem.
The real problem was Quun’s Grimgerde.
The shape of her sacred treasure was a gun, but the Grimgerde’s right hand had the Gatling gun equipped, so she had no way to hold it. Her left hand had been designed as finger Vulcans, so although it had five fingers, it couldn’t do very precise movements, which meant it couldn’t grip things very well.
Thankfully, the Gatling gun was detachable, so it was possible to simply remove it and have her equip the sacred treasure that way, but at the same time, the Gatling gun was the Grimgerde’s main weapon. The thought of removing it seemed to make Quun really upset...
“I need to find a way to equip the sacred treasure without removing my weapons!”
Thus, she managed to find a way to have the Gatling gun slide up to the Grimgerde’s elbow to allow her to hold the sacred treasure. I didn’t think it was all that necessary, but according to Quun, it was important to account for all scenarios. It was a case of, “I thought this might happen!” I would be lying if I said I understood her...