The Runic Alchemist-Chapter 488: Becoming A Monarch 2

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Item: Titan Splitter

Tier: Supreme

Origin: Forged By Primordial Metal Shaper

Item Type: Runic Weapon (Aura Enhancement)

Description:

A Supreme-grade Runic Sword forged to sever what should not be severed. Its five runic circles carve aura into layers of lethal precision, extending its reach with each stacked edge. Bound to its rightful wielder, the blade rejects all others, lying inert in unworthy hands. Each slash leaves wounds that cut through both flesh and spirit—a weapon crafted not to slay men, but to bring giants to their knees.

Attributes:

Durability: 99%

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Activation Time: 50 seconds

Cooldown: 1 minute (After each use)

Runic Alignment: Tier I

Special Effects:

Edge of Manifestation:

The sword’s runes siphon the wielder’s aura, seamlessly weaving it onto the blade’s edge. The extracted aura remains perfectly balanced—neither unstable nor wasteful—allowing the sword to cut through both the tangible and intangible with equal precision.

Veilshard Refinement:

A runic precision effect that compresses the aura edge to the absolute thinnest possible layer, minimizing mana expenditure while maximizing cutting power. The sharper the edge, the lower the mana cost—rewarding mastery with near-effortless lethality.

Phantom Rend:

The sword’s aura sharpened edge projects itself beyond the physical blade, forming an invisible extension that cleaves through space with the same sharpness as the true blade. Wounds inflicted by the phantom edge linger longer, as if the cut itself echoes through the target’s aura.

Layered Dominion:

The fourth circle’s duplication and stacking effect grants the sword an evolving range. With each layer of aura stacked atop the last, the blade’s reach extends further while retaining its original cutting shape. The wielder can command the layers to coalesce into a single devastating slash or fragment them into successive rapid strikes.

Runic Apex Drive:

By igniting the fifth circle, the sword harnesses the accumulated aura layers into raw propulsion force—turning the blade into a streaking bolt of destruction. The sudden surge of momentum enhances both range and impact, but prolonged use risks destabilizing the layered aura construction.

Bloodbound Legacy: This weapon is attuned solely to its rightful inheritor—only the original wearer and their direct descendants can wield its power. Any outsider attempting to use it will find it inert, its essence refusing to respond.

Restrictions:

User Level Required: 90

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After a minute of staredown, Damian got up from his chair, picked up his newly made sword, and stepped inside the green line.

The towering giant also responded in the same way, but with much more attitude and a loud roar. Before Damian could even walk 10 meters in, the giant pulled his sword high up and it started glowing red. It was mana though—not aura. Damian doubted it would do much to enhance the power of the swing. Guess their species didn’t have aura at all.

The overhead slash fell with devastating power, and a slow red arc shot straight toward Damian. It was not on par with the speed Damian had seen the third rankers send their aura slash at. It still fell short—well, to his standard. Otherwise, it was cleaving through the air with an ear-splitting noise.

Level 100 Damian, with over a hundred and twenty points in Agility, easily dodged the attack and ran past it. A foreign mana could still be dangerous and harmful to the body. Then, heading straight for the still-in-motion giant, he activated the first runic circle of the five on his sword. All five were a set of a single spell, but Damian had separated them to make it more powerful and effective.

The first one was the simple aura enhancement he had copied from Alex, but he had changed it to only come out at the edge of the blade, allowing him to use his own aura control to make it a solid shape. The second runic circle activated right after—this one used the first circle’s shape and shrunk the excess thickness of the conjured aura, making it as thin as a knife blade, increasing lethality while cutting the mana cost from waste. The third runic circle’s only job was to cut the aura structure that was a thin knife shape to actually give it a sharp edge like a sword. The fourth was another aura enhancement, but this one only copied the ready-made shape from the previous three runic circles—a thin and sharp aura blade, sword-sized—and placed it right next to the formed one.

It could be controlled how big Damian wanted the thin aura blades to stack on top of each other. If he wanted to change the size of the blade, that could also be done with the help of this runic circle. The bigger the blade conjured, the farther it would form from the sword’s edge—it worked in proportions.

The final fifth runic circle had only one simple yet most important job—giving the formed aura blade devastating propulsion to launch forward. Damian had used a mishmash of a lot of kinetic power-inducing runes and pathway structures for it, which were: (Propel) + ➝ (Directional) (Speed Up) + 3 (Multiplier), Pathways: Spiral Loops, Converging Spiral ending with (Acceleration) (Thrust) + (Instant Release).

Needless to say, it was a massive spell. Still it was massive in just complexity and the mana cost was just under 10000, only conjuring took the most of it while the other alteration runes were not as mana heavy to use. The runic circles that were produced in the air before his eyes as he activated the whole sword were five, stacking on top of each other, performing all the calculations and producing the effect in an instant. It was a spell imbued in a sword for only two or three slashes—after that, the whole sword’s metal would turn to pieces and crumble away, more than the mana straining the metal, the varied rune effects also affected much destructively on the metal. And if a massive, big-sized slash was used..

Damian jumped high towards the monster and, with a full motion of his hands, released the gigantic aura slash stacking over 20 aura blades—keeping it thinner than a knife—and saw it fly at lightning-fast speed toward the blue hairy giant, still recovering from its own attack.

The aura slash went through its body from right in the middle of the head to its scrotum and flew past behind it even after going through the stone throne as the giant just froze on the spot. In the next second, Damian landed from his jump, the supreme-grade sword turning to dust as only the handle stayed in his hand.

Seconds later, the giant hairy emperor-ranked monster fell on its back, perfectly split in half just like its stone throne behind it.