Law Tower (Part 4)

The spear strike seemed to drain the light from the world around him while at the same time the tip enlarged in his vision as it sliced through the air like it was butter. Rowan didn't have enough time to defend himself from the attack if he were to summon the gems, but he released them anyway to free his hands while at the same time, the sword of storms appeared before him and took the brunt of the blow. The spear tip hit the flat of the blade and color returned to the room as an explosion bloomed from the point of contact while Rowan was flung backwards. He looked at the sword in his hand and noticed a white mark on the flat of the blade, which caused his excitement to bloom and his berserker gene to perceive the man before him as a credible threat.

Rowans' will to fight shot through the roof as he summoned the armament blade, but instead of wielding them separately, he channeled the laws into both weapons. He had been thinking about this for a long time. His soul weapon had the divine beast souls that his master had purified as well as a piece of his own and his armament blade was made from his attunement, but if he were to combine both blades. His laws coalesced, and the blades started to shine before they wrapped themselves into a crystal falcon that was a beautiful vermillion. It had tribal lines on it that were silver. He smiled. He had modified his own soul weapon and fused it with the blade born from his attunement. While he was doing this, though, the flying dutchman had appeared in the middle of the air in front of Rowan, blocking the advance of Bodie.

The flying dutchman released its barrage, but this time things went differently. Bodie lowered his stance and began to rapidly jab the spear through the air. His spear seemed to travel through space itself as it pierced the cannon balls before they were even close. Right when the barrage was about to end, the second weapon struck from his blind side and revealed itself. The bolt traveled to Bodie's heart in silence. It split space as it passed like a boat cutting through water. Space itself seemed to move aside for the crossbow bolt. This was the second weapon that Rowan has created from the soul of a criminal. He had named the crossbow Silent Storm thanks to the silence that its projectiles moved with.

Bodie's eyes widened in surprise as he hurriedly tried to shift his body out of the way. He succeeded in making sure the bolt would not pierce his heart but instead it sheared a chunk of flesh from his upper shoulder. The crossbow was just floating there as it slowly vanished from sight as its string started to pull itself back while Bodie eliminated the rest of the cannon balls only for Rowan to come from the sky and bear down on him. He was holding a massive war glaive in his hand. Both wing shaped swords were connected by a handle that depicted the different divine beast souls that contributed to it while the blades themselves looked beautiful. They were silver and etched with a feather pattern, while each feather had a groove on it that was currently empty.

Rowan had modified it with his current cultivation path in mind, but that would come into play later. He wielded it in the middle and chopped downwards towards Bodie who now had to focus on three attackers at once as Rowan's blade met the spear with a clang. Bodie parried the blow and spun his spear before stabbing the bull horn towards Rowan's waist. The timing was perfect, but In the nick of time, the crossbow appeared and point blank range fired a bolt. The tip of the bolt met the bullhorn, and the shockwave blew both parties sideways. Bodie rolled out of it and slid across the ground and Rowan spun through the air sideways like a top, dispersing his momentum while he touched down on the ground once more. "Young man, this ability is like a cheat here, thank god you don't have more of these things. I fully understand why the tower judged you to be such a monster. I am going to have to concede here, without my attunement, I can not hope to best you , not in the law tower. I wish you the best of luck in your following challenges."

Rowan dismissed all the items and walked back up to Bodie to shake his hand once more. "It has been my pleasure. Your talents have shown me that I should not dismiss the specific weapon laws. Your initial strike made my blood boil. I may have gone too far and apologize for your shoulder." Bodie waved him off with a smile though "No, it was my honor to fight the king's disciple. I'm gonna go tell people about it now. You make sure to come find me and say hello once you ascend, young man." After that Bodie pressed a button that was attached to his pants and vanished and the robotic voice played once more and the streamers descended once more. Rowan sat to digest the streamers while on the outside of the tower, people were having very different reactions to his journey in the tower.

The queen still had not gotten the shock over what he had done while Luna, who was standing next to her, was confused as to what she was truly seeing. "Your highness, how is anything he's doing possible? How is he creating such unique weapons?" The queen took a deep breath and turned to her assistant. "Do you know what a soul weapon is, Luna?" Luna nodded her head yes. "Soul weapons are said to be the next evolution of Astra but exclusive to creation users, they are weapons born of the person's attunement and mana zone as well as a portion of their soul. Soul weapons are the known pinnacle of weapons, but without a creation user, which is rare in itself, not many people have access to them. Soul weapons are like wielding your entire cultivation as a weapon at all times."

The queen looked at her for a long moment. "I think I need to reduce the library time you take." Luna furiously shook her head and looked embarrassed. "No, I just like to read stuff! Now your highness you still didn't tell me what was so special about what he's doing!" She looked at the screen where Rowan had already begun the fifth floor and was once again matched with an army member instead of a criminal due to his strength. The queen took it all in as she spoke to her assistant. "Rowan Raid is somehow capable of turning people into soul weapons. He is using the same aspect of them but taking all of it and turning them into soul weapons capable of ridiculous feats. The law tower is in fact limiting his abilities right now, if he had full access to his already ridiculous attunement I dare say that Rowan Raid would be able to injure a god if he went all out, and considering he's not even a demigod and there is only 2 of them not to mention that I can feel soul force coming from him instead of mana. Top it all off with the fact that most of the people who have already completed the tower and are spectating have not even noticed the three scariest parts yet."

"The first is that soul weapons can use the atmospheric mana to keep themselves active so his mana usage is in fact abysmally low, and so anyone fighting him could never try to wait out his mana and hope the weapons deactivated not to mention that who knows what they could be, giving him almost limitless options of attack. The second is that the weapons are getting stronger each time he learns more of the laws, to the point that to compare them to when he first summoned them would be nonsense. You can even tell based on that massive ship. It was previously blurry and now it's not only less so but the ship has gained considerable definition in this time.The final portion is the fact that if they are indeed soul weapons, I'm almost certain that he just modified his own soul weapon so that he could integrate them with his weapon and at the same time nurture them with his own mana like they were his own. Given enough time and enemies he will become a walking arsenal and since he can reach someone's soul, to defend against the ability you would need to make it so he could not touch you during the entire fight or have a soul of equal or greater strength."

Luna stared at the queen and was about to speak when the Queen interrupted her. "I actually just left out another important aspect. He can use the weapons without his hands, so swords and spears are all controlled from a distance and used like he was in your face, and if someone was dumb enough to engage him in close combat, you would fall for his trap and become a part of his arsenal. Luna took a deep breath and stared at Rowan, who was now on the sixth floor. "What an absolute Genius… I mean monster, your highness." Queen Vernize could only shake her head, no you said it right. He is indeed a Genius, but any Genius that reaches his level of ability can only be called a monster."