Chapter 1139 Getting Sick From the Swirling and Whirling of the White Waves Part 1

I will let you all on a little secret here, okay? To tell you the truth…… I am not all that good when it comes to the Japanese swords category. Because, you know…… Yeah, it’s just like that! Their durability tends to be way worse than that of Western longswords. The blade tends to deteriorate quite fast when you cut through the bones. And since the blades of the Japanese swords tend to be slightly curved, you cannot make consecutive blows and slashes unless you master the technique of quickly turning the blade over and over.

I guess that the Bakumatsu Online can be a complete contradiction to the above statement, but that’s only because Bakumatsu Online is an exception. And, as we all know, exceptions only serve to confirm the general rules. Why is that in this case? Because in Bakumatsu Online showdowns between players tend to be super-fast and violent, usually settled within moments. So even if you don’t know all that much about fighting with Japanese weaponry, it doesn’t really matter, because the battle will be all over because your lack of skill and knowledge can become a cause for concern. …… That is exactly what Bakumatsu Online is all about.

But the facts remain the same: if I were to choose between the Japanese swords and the Western swords, I would take Western swords without thinking any day of the week, under any circumstances. Still, I can use the Japanese swords to a considerable degree if the situation demands it…… Not to mention that the techniques that I have learned in Bakumatsu Online can easily be performed with the Western Swords as well.

And last but not least, at the current moment I do not have a great Japanese sword in my current inventory. And that’s that.

One Japanese sword that I have can be only wielded effectively at night, the Rabbit Whale Moon needs to have its gauges filled as they are indispensable to unleashing the blade’s true power and potential, and the sword that utilizes the Iai cutting technique can be effectively used only once before it becomes useless and in need of repairs. So there you have it: every such weapon has a catch to it that makes it not so versatile in the end. Being situational is all good, but I need something that I can rely on in times of sudden need.

Oh well, actually I thought about using the Jeweled Sword some more in the game, to see just how truly powerful it is going to become, however I never managed to fulfill that ambition because of my forced vacation from ShangriLa Frontier and venture into the world of Galaxy Traveller…… Not to mention that it is one of the very first swords that someone other than Break forged for me, and I really wanted to see just how far I can take it. For that, a field test is more than truly necessary.

「Alright then, it’s time to unveil this sword…… “Hayakaze”!!」

I make a step forward and accelerate with it, at the same time quickly drawing my new blade from its scabbard. It was pure black blade with a wave pattern etched onto the surface of the blade itself. I then twisted my whole body to give the sword more momentum and made a single slash with it, one that easily passed through the fatty body of the monster that was right in front of me, cutting it in half and effectively causing it to disappear on the spot. All of that accompanied with a brilliant bright flash of light, as well as the short scream of admiration from Survival right next to me.

「Do me a favor and stay on your guard, okay……?」

SLASH! And just like that my Stamina manages to reach zero in an instant. Of course, once that happened, I was unable to move for a short while, but that would leave me completely exposed for any incoming enemy attacks. But actually that did not matter here all that much, because as soon as the attack animation ended, it also managed to hit one other fat monster that was right behind that first one. Also, as a side note, I sincerely believed for a moment that the thing that squirted from their bodies in the moment of the slash was grease or gravy, but that’s beside the point right now. Con firming that the monsters have been successfully dealt with, I corrected my posture after I made sure that my Stamina was starting to recover. Now, onto the final impression of this particular blade: it’s good. Really good. It might be a little bit straightforward, but that’s not actually a bad thing in here. And above all else, it is strong. It is everything that I could possibly ask for in a weapon. And that’s more than enough for me.

In addition to using the usual high-quality ore as a base material for this thing, this sword has nearly one hundred ability points poured into it from being a practice sword. And why is that? Well, it’s most probably because it was used in the operation “Fire Pot” before, or at the very least I can’t see any other possible explanation here…… But oh well. As for its Durability, it is nothing out of the ordinary, but for a Japanese sword is certainly a lot. But nothing to write home about. Now, don’t get me wrong, it really is something seriously great for a rushed job like that, but I cannot help but wonder…… What the result on this thing could be if I were to give Break some more time to make some proper work with it? Let’s say…… A day or two more? I’m sure that the result would be nothing short of spectacular here!

Well, unfortunately that the thing with great weapons and pieces of equipment. You cannot really rush the process of creating them if you want the final product to be of the highest possible quality. A good lesson to remember for the future.

For the time being, it seems that the only kinds of meat that we were able to procure here were lean meat and fat meat. Which is honestly quite a bummer indeed, but on a bright side it was not all that difficult of a fight overall. Everything officially came to an end once Survival managed to finish his bunch of enemies after delivering the finishing blow to the monster that was on the ground, piercing it with his halberd in one swift motion. Thanks to that we should be able to obtain for ourselves quite a nice loadout of fresh meat to enjoy back at the save point.

「Oh wow, wouldn’t you know it? Finally decided to give the Japanese swords a go? Now I have seen everything!」

「Ahh, nah, it’s nothing like that. It just that I needed to use something like that because it went well with the new skills that I managed to obtain. That’s all.」