CHAPTER 60

"Are you ok ?", Rachel asked Arata when he returned. It kind of goes to say how dangerous it was. Arata had just missed some bullets and barely unhurt. It would have been very bad if he was hurt. He did try to be as discreet as possible, but now Arata knew that he needed a weapon. The machine guns, and all the hot weapons still had an edge over all the cultivation done by humans. He addressed all this to the whole group in the night.

"Well, yeah. That's right. The technology will keep increasing and we will keep falling behind. So we do need something that can battle out in the real world.", Greed said.

"Well, yeah, we should come uo with more creative ways of using our powers.", Wrath said.

"Oyee ! You are strong enough !", Envy said to him.

"I was particularly thinking about my dagger. What else can I do with my dagger ?", Arata said. People were quiet after this. They never usually see Dagger as a weapon anyways.

"Not many ideas huh ?", Rachel broke the silence. She also wanted to upgrade her dagger skills. But she just had an overpowered skill to kill anyone within the range of her taking, provided she could see them. Others didn't really have weapons and were very specific to their skills. Only Arata was a diamond in rough.

"Hmmm… I will spend time thinking about this till the next assassination. It's time for the weapon upgrade !", Arata said.

"Me too !", Rachel said after him.

"Hmm.. Can you attach your abilities to other objects ?", Arata asked Misty.

"Yes, if they are enhanced. Well, it depends on you to make it useful I guess. I wonder why I haven't said this to you before, maybe because there isn't anyone like that in the first place…", Misty said, mumbling to herself.

"Ok. I understand. What can you do to this dagger then ?", Arata asked Misty.

"I could make it invisible. I could change the shape of it at will, but I can not change the mass of the object. I can probably change it into any other metal also. Like steel to platinum to diamond or Sodium or something like that.", Misty said.

"Well, it looks like I will become a metallurgy master. Would have been pretty useful if Arata had this ability. She could utilize chemistry properly. I will probably study some properties of metals.", Arata said. "Also, Enhancement for me would be pretty easy, right ?"

"Well, yeah. That's true. It just has to be 'registered' by you I guess.", Misty replied.

"OK then. Let's get a ball and make it my ultimate weapon !", Arata said. "These Daggers can be upgraded afterwards. I don't really have a specific goal for them. We can literally mould the ball in any shape right ?", Arata asked.

"Yup. But the precision, accuracy, speed, efficiency depends on how much enhanced the ball is. It might be better if you try with these daggers now.", Misty said.

Normally, Arata is very rational, but these daggers were especially made by Solork and didn't want to change them. He was going to ask Gluttony to make an enhanceable simple ball and that would be it. He would slowly get used to it. And it wasn't like he needed this at the moment. It might take time, but he will build his affinity with the ball slowly and steady.

"And I name this ball, the Ultimate Orb.", Arata said after he received it from Gluttony.