Dimensional Codex System: I'm really not a cultist!-Chapter 1501 - 1500: The Power of the Holy Sword

"Human?"

The elderly man with white hair and beard frowned, looking at the lizard officer before him.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, Master Sage, at least that’s what he claims to be."

The lizard officer lowered his head, responding quietly. After hearing the lizard officer’s report, the old man furrowed his brows tightly, pondering silently.

This elderly man before him, with all-white hair and beard, is the last surviving human in the world—or rather, once human.

His name is Swan Kandel, once a member of human heroes. He perished during the battle with the Earth God, but before dying, he used a secret technique to place a curse on himself, thereby resurrecting as one of The Fallen. Afterward, during the nightmare-like disaster of the beast invasion, Swan and Lord Black Candle created the floating islands to escape the catastrophe.

Thus, this Grand Sage also holds an advisory position within the Winged Guard, and as the sage who saved the people, he is respected by all.

However, what this Grand Sage never expected was to hear such news five hundred years after that disaster!

A human appeared on the battlefield against beasts?

How is that possible?

To be honest, from a rational standpoint, Swan absolutely does not believe it. After all, five hundred years have passed since then, humans have long been extinct, and those legendary heroes who once fought against the Three Terrestrial Gods have long since perished. Therefore, upon hearing the lizard officer’s report, Swan’s first reaction was that someone was trying to impersonate a hero.

Even though humans are extinct, there are species similar to humans, known as the Unmarked Species—those without obvious animal traits. For instance, the man-eating demons are one such group; they are tall and strong, yet outwardly indistinguishable from humans, except for when they open their mouths, revealing rows of sharp teeth... and this is what sets them apart from humans.

But after hearing the report, Swan hesitated.

If the lizard officer isn’t exaggerating, then that man appeared and with a single strike manipulated flames, devouring and incinerating hundreds of beasts. Such powerful strength only the former human heroes—no, even among the heroes back then, no one possessed such abilities.

Who exactly is this person?

With that thought, Swan remained silent for a long time, then looked again at the lizard officer.

"That person is currently in the Fairy Warehouse?"

"Yes, Master Sage."

"Very well, then in the upcoming battles, let him follow the other fairy soldiers onto the battlefield. Don’t act rashly, just observe for now, understood?"

"Yes."

In contrast to the perplexed sage, Fang Zheng has been enjoying his days thoroughly. Initially, the kids in the Fairy Warehouse kept their distance from Fang Zheng, but who was Fang Zheng? He raised millions of little girls in the Heavenly Dao Palace, naturally skilled at amusing children. He made tasty treats, told interesting stories, and sang a few songs. Within a day or two, these little ones soon became familiar with Fang Zheng.

"So this story tells us that there’s strength in numbers, and to defeat the enemy, we must unite, not rush in one by one like the Gourd Kids rescuing their grandpa, almost causing a debacle..."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng clapped his hands.

"Alright, that’s all for today, go and play now."

"Brother Fang Zheng, tell us more stories."

Seeing Fang Zheng stand up, the little girls nearby became reluctant, rushing forward to grab Fang Zheng’s clothes. Fang Zheng reached out and tapped their little heads.

"Alright, it’s time for your training. If you want to hear more, I’ll sing you some songs after lunch."

"Okay!"

Upon hearing this, the little ones finally smiled, then scattered with a cheer.

"You’re really something, little brother."

At this moment, Aetheria approached with a playful smile.

"It’s the first time I’ve seen anyone besides Nigolan able to manage them so well."

"Of course, the Heavenly Dao Palace has loads of little girls, for me, this is just a minor thing."

Fang Zheng waved his hand, leaning against the wall, and Neflen also came over.

"Heavenly Dao Palace... that’s your hometown?"

"Kind of..."

Upon Neflen’s inquiry, Fang Zheng looked up at the sky with a hint of melancholy. Although his goal was once to go home, now... one could say the Heavenly Dao Palace is his home.

"I’ll take you all to the Heavenly Dao Palace sometime to have a look. It’s much more interesting than here, I promise."

"Really? I must go!"

"Don’t make a fuss here."

At this moment, Katori walked over helplessly, interrupting the trio’s conversation.

"We have a mission ahead, let’s focus on the current tasks first."

"............"

Listening to Katori’s words, Aetheria and Neflen fell silent, and for a moment, the atmosphere seemed somewhat solemn. Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng clapped his hands.

"By the way, I still don’t know what your strength levels are... Katori, do you mind practicing with me?"

"Practice...? Alright." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Facing Fang Zheng’s invitation, Katori hesitated slightly, then nodded. In fact, she was also curious about what kind of strength this man before her possessed.

Soon, the two arrived at the nearby square; Fang Zheng held Restia in one hand and Ester in the other, while Katori picked up a giant sword that seemed larger than her own body. The sword’s blade was covered in twisted scars, appearing as if pieced together from fragments.

"Hmm?"

Seeing this, Fang Zheng’s eyes lit up.

Young lady, you have great potential. How about joining the Undead Squad with me?

Tall enough, now it seems that strength and speed are not bad either, and using a greatsword... with a little adjustment... guidance, she will definitely become an outstanding Farron Knight!

But this thought just flashed by, even if I want Katori to join the Farron Undead Legion, it’s not now. He just raised the Pitch Black Greatsword in his hand and looked at Katori in front of him.

"Are you ready?"

"Of course!"

Facing Fang Zheng, Katori seemed quite serious. After all, she had witnessed Fang Zheng’s powerful performance on the battlefield before, so naturally, she would not doubt his strength. She took a deep breath and then tightly held the greatsword in her hand. Soon, a series of azure magic radiance flashed, and the greatsword quickly disassembled and then merged again.

But unlike before, this time the greatsword contained a powerful magic power.

"Oh?"

Upon seeing this, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrow.

"Here I come!"

At the same time, with a loud shout, Katori raised the greatsword in her hand and quickly ran towards Fang Zheng. She rushed in front of Fang Zheng and slashed down with the sword towards him.

But at this moment, Katori saw Fang Zheng’s lips slightly curl up, and then his left hand flipped. The silver dagger immediately greeted her greatsword.

"Clang!"

"Eh?"

Katori didn’t know what had happened. When she came to her senses, she was already kneeling on the ground, feeling weak all over, and the greatsword was placed beside her. Fang Zheng’s Pitch Black Greatsword was pressed against her neck; the cold, sharp touch was enough to slice through her neck with a light motion.

What exactly happened just now?

Katori carefully recalled but couldn’t remember. She just remembered that she had launched an attack on Fang Zheng, and then Fang Zheng seemed to counterattack. Then... her memories seemed to have interrupted, and when she regained her senses, she was in this situation.

"Again."

Fang Zheng put away the greatsword, stepped back, and spoke. Upon hearing Fang Zheng’s words, Katori gritted her teeth, gripped the sword in her hand again, stood up, and continued to charge towards Fang Zheng. Just kidding, she wouldn’t give up just like that! She is the Golden Fairy who fought beasts with the Relic Weapon; she wouldn’t choose to escape no matter what!

"Clang! Clang clang!!"

Fang Zheng didn’t use any other power, just simply wielding the greatsword and engaged with Katori. Katori had obviously learned her lesson; she stared fixedly at Fang Zheng’s left-hand white dagger, full of vigilance. Clearly, although Katori didn’t know what happened before, she was sure it had something to do with Fang Zheng’s left-hand white dagger.

And Fang Zheng was also secretly evaluating the qualities of the blue-haired girl before him.

Hmm, good speed, very responsive, rich combat experience, obviously a seasoned warrior on the battlefield... only...

"Clang---!"

Fang Zheng suddenly swung the greatsword again, and this time Katori finally couldn’t hold on and retreated.

"Is that all?"

"What do you mean by ’is that all’?"

Hearing Fang Zheng’s inquiry, Katori glared at him unhappily. What a joke, she could say she had used all her strength just now, but Fang Zheng easily blocked it. Katori was not a novice; she understood what this meant—she couldn’t compare with him at all.

Upon hearing Fang Zheng’s slightly disdainful query, Katori almost wanted to cry.

It’s fine that I can’t beat you, but what’s the meaning of taunting me?

"No, I mean... this is a Holy Sword, doesn’t it have any special abilities?"

As he spoke, Fang Zheng reached out and pointed to the greatsword in Katori’s hand. From the trial with Katori just now, he had already sensed that Katori was just infusing magic power into the sword, making it sharper—that’s it—in the Main World, even an elite-level existence could achieve this.

Isn’t it just attaching power to a weapon? In that case, there’s no need for a Holy Sword; even a shovel would do... forget it, forget it, thinking of a shovel means I’m almost brainwashed by Walnut.

In short, since it’s a Holy Sword, it should have some special abilities.

Facing Fang Zheng’s inquiry, Katori and the others were stunned.

"Special ability... being able to infuse magic power to amplify, isn’t that the ability of a Holy Sword?"

"Not really..."

Hearing Katori’s bewildered answer, Fang Zheng appeared puzzled, feeling it shouldn’t be this simple. Of course, if it’s a random Another World, Fang Zheng wouldn’t delve into it too deeply. Like the Shield Hero world, idiocy is the basic setting, so arguing seriously with them would be pointless; it’s just that the average IQ in that world doesn’t exceed 100, not even for the bosses.

But this world is different; it’s a small world under the Main World background. Furthermore, according to the Ratziel investigation, in previous battles, the human heroes of this world used these holy swords to kill the Star God and Three Terrestrial Gods! And the Star God is the Order Coordinates left in this world by the Goddess of Order!

Although it’s not the Goddess of Order herself, the Order Coordinates are not easy to deal with, and these Holy Swords being able to kill the Star God and Three Terrestrial Gods indicates they must have special abilities. Otherwise, if it were just magic power infusion, how could they kill the Order Coordinates?!

Just the Order Coordinates alone, even for Fang Zheng himself, finding a random weapon now wouldn’t hurt him a bit. Just simply enchanted weapon, Fang Zheng doesn’t even need to use a shield, just letting the opponent hit would be like back massage for him.

"Let me see that sword."

Curious, Fang Zheng reached out to Katori, and Katori seemed a bit hesitant.

"But, these Holy Swords can only be used by humans..."

"Aren’t I human?"

"That’s true..."

Faced with Fang Zheng’s teasing, Katori had nothing to say and obediently handed the Holy Sword over. Then, Fang Zheng gripped the Holy Sword, raised it, and carefully examined it.

Then, his eyes flashed.

"Oh?"

"Snap!"

Katori and the others watched as the Holy Sword in Fang Zheng’s hand suddenly split, then quickly transformed and spread, and in the blink of an eye, it became a giant Blade of Light that shot straight into the sky!

"This...what is going on?"

Seeing this scene, everyone was stunned.