The Immortal God Cultivator
Artefact
"Little Shin, will you be able to help me fight the enemy?"
"I can, but I have to eat the soul core of the spirit beast."
"I've seen like you from some comics, the stronger the spirit animal, the more it's going to be, too, right?"
"Hmm, you're right. If there is a spirit beast soul core, just give it to me! The more I eat, the sooner I'll get back to my strength."
"I can't give you the soul core of a spirit beast for nothing. I'll just give you something useless for me."
"I know, you want to make them into your army, don't you?"
"It's great that you can guess right away."
"Why did you come here?"
"I saw a spirit animal. If it's weak, it could be your food."
"All right."
Then Adrine and little Shin looked for the spirit beast. Adrine found a large spirit animal. Adrine attempted to kill him using the power of the Purgatory Demon.
In just 10 seconds, the Purgatory Demon had defeated the spirit beast called Phantom Snake. Adrine approached the corpse from Phantom Snake to check on the strength he possessed.
"It's no stronger than Krystal Wolf. Just for you, little Shin."
"Thank you."
Then the soul that was still around Adrine became like a swirl. Like making a strong wind and a great whirlwind. Adrine is only ordinary when he sees this, because it is almost the same as when he is storing a soul.
After that, the swirling soul appeared and began to be seen. Quickly, little Shin sucked the soul core like it sucked air.
"How are you, are you now becoming stronger?"
"At least, I'm already at the level-1 Storm stage."
"Yeah, you're stronger than me."
"Even though I am stronger than you, my energy is no more than half yours."
"Your ability will make an ace later. So, you'll only fight when you really need to."
Then Adrine and little Shin looked around.
"Is there any more now?"
"Look! There's a spirit animal heading towards my friends."
"Yes, if it's not wrong it's the Fire-Horned Rhino. But weaker than you've ever fought before."
"That's your food now. You're lucky now."
"Oh yeah, I have something I want to show you."
"What's that?"
"We go there first, I'll tell you. But don't kill the body."
"All right."
Then Adrine and little Shin flew towards the Fire-Horned Rhino which was heading to Adrine's friends. Adrine reached the place where the rhino was walking.
"See this!"
Little Shin showed a small, needle-like object in his hand.
"Eh, it's like an artifact. What is an artifact?"
"Yes. This was the Soul Eating Blood Needle. The mystical level artifact."
"What's? Mystic level? What level is that? I've never even heard of such a level."
"Far above the level of your artifact. The point now is that my artifact is a mystic level artifact, and yours is the true level. Far away from yours."
"I knew. Eh? Whahuh? My artifact of true level? Are you kidding me?"
"Unbelieving? Just look at it for yourself! And feel the power."
Then Adrine activated her right soul eye and took out her soul dagger. Adrine looked at the dagger like it was different from before. The resulting aura was also stronger. There was a luminous engraving in the eyes of his sword, and the engraving was like a line of fire burning.
"Ah, you're right. My artifact is now stronger."
"What's? Now then? Was your artifact not the same level as it is now?"
"Yes." Yeah."
"But how can an artifact be upgraded? I who have lived for hundreds of thousands of years have never even heard of a technique that could increase the grade of an artifact."
"This is thanks to the help of the artifact in the eyes of my left soul."
Then Adrine activated his left soul eye and took out an unnamed book. Actually, Adrine's dagger also has no name, the name is only to make naming weapons easier.
"What book is this?"
"I don't know either. But thanks to the book, I was able to raise the level of my artifact to become as powerful as you can see it now."
"So that's it?"
"Then, what do you want now?"
Adrine was actually also curious why little Shin was in such a hurry to go to the place of the Fire-Horned Rhino.
"With this artifact in place, I can suck out a purer soul core rather than kill it myself."
"So, the purer the soul core, the better it will be for you, is it true?"
"You're right. And the soul that I killed with this Soul-Eating Blood Needle, will result in the spirit beast giving off an aura that almost resembles that of a murderous air."
"Wouldn't that weaken his soul?"
"Yes, but the effect would be the opposite if using this artifact."
"That would strengthen his soul core while unleashing a murderous air?"
"true."
Without further ado, little Shin took out a technique that fused with his artifact needle. It was easy for the rhinoceros to die and little Shin ate his soul core just like before. Adrine only smiled when she saw little Shin eating it.
"What about your strength now?"
"Now it might already be on par with an early grade-2 level Storm stage."