"Aetherium & Voidbringer II"

Snake Calendar, Year 2025

13th Day of December, Saturday Morning

The Outside City of Nova Asta, Main Adventure Outpost

Because of the Dual Swords, he possesses and uses during his hunting of monsters and beasts, he gains a lot of experience points for his Archivist System and Adventure Rank Points for his promotion from Trainee Adventurer to Apprentice Adventurer. However, it might be unfair to use this sword for slashing and hitting his opponents due to the huge amount of damage it deals.

But, there was another problem that he needed to deal with as he kept continuing his quests and adventures. He needed to buy a dual sword accessory that could hide the stats of both swords and their appearance because people might wonder or be curious about Accel's sword he uses, ever since he had a dual system, he has been using the Swordsman System as he wears fully his armor including his helmet to hide his face.

Buying sword accessories for disguising and hiding the stats is not easy, but maybe it could work with Common Tier Grade Accessories and maybe it could adapt the low-tier grade to a high-tier grade weapon that according to his analysis or understanding, on how accessories work. So, Accel bought from the Outpost Shop sword accessories that have a special trait that allows him to hide the shape of the sword and hide the stats of the sword for safety.

He also found a book of runes that specialize in hiding objects and enables them to also hide information about a certain object or item depending on how much energy usages is used from the rune and with a limited time so it's not really that useful but he had no also choice and bought the book of runes. After purchasing the book of runes that is instant learning, he obtained the Beginner's Rune of Disguise and tried applying the sword and its information 5 times, he failed 4 times applying the runes.

After applying the Rune of Disguise on the Private Room that he bought for a few hours he went to the bulletin boarding to accept quests on killing mutant slimes and armor slimes. Mutant Slimes are created by environmental influences, magical exposure, or experiments, they have unpredictable abilities such as rapid growth, and self-duplication, and unpredictable mutations like (extra limbs, tentacles, intelligence, or new resistances).

Mutant Slimes have many more health points than the standard variation of Slimes like twice as many as ordinary slimes, they also have increased resistance against physical and magical attacks due to magical exposure, if they are in an environment filled with magic, their bodies have much more resistance against magic attacks.

Sometimes, Mutant Slimes have enhanced regeneration making them a bit durable, they are also very aggressive to all hostile forces and have a little intelligence when their lives are in danger like retreating quickly and regenerating their health. As for the Armor Slimes, they concentrate more on defense and have higher health points than Mutant Slimes, they are very easily spotted due to their natural shell, metal plating, or even absorbed armor pieces.

Armor Slimes have immunity against weak physical attacks such as (blunt weapons, wooden swords, or small knives), they have also resistance against stronger physical attacks such as (copper/iron weapons, heavy objects, or explosions). The abilities of Armor Slimes have a high defense boost making them harder to kill for adventurers who are Trainee or Apprentice Ranks, but easily be killed by those higher ranks.

Armor Slimes have counterattacks when dealing damage to them there is a chance for them to inflict Reflect Damage a portion of the damage dealt to the wearer is reflected at the attacker about 0.5%-1% damage. They also can harden their outer layer to make their core more protected if their hostile enemies are attacking directly to their cores.

Due to their little intelligence like the Mutant Slimes, but instead of running away they mimic their enemies like swordsmen, warriors, or knights from those dead adventurers for unknown reasons, sometimes when their intelligence increases they can wield absorbed weapons that deal acidic damage. Armor Slimes are much more durable than Mutant Slimes, but a little slower than Mutant Slimes, they are also cautious rather than being aggressive to their enemies they often stand their ground, especially if they have their territory.

Archivist System Notification: "Congratulations! You learned more about the Slimes, everything will be placed in the monster encyclopedia!"

Verdant Hollow, Outer Zone, Late Morning

He stumbled upon a huge slime village with the Mutant Slime as the command and those guards as the Armor Slimes, the problem was he could only use the swords for slashing or hitting them, but using his Mind Acceleration without overusing the ability to prevent him getting dizziness an idea come out and why not apply one of the abilities from the Sword Mastery like the Mighty Strike and the Sword Enhance.

With that he uses Sword Enhance to boost the Aetherium & Voidbringer damage from 10,000 to 12,500 it's already overpowered so increasing the damage wasn't necessary, but since it's a part of the effect so no choice, the Critical Rate has increased from 0% -> 10% and the Critical Damage has increased from 0% to 15%. With the sword skill, the Mighty Strike deals small area-of-effect squish the slimes to flat or get disseminated into dust.

He then started dashing left and right dealing them one by one since there is always a cooldown using the Mighty Strike, with the combination of his neural command skills, the Fireball that deals area-of-effect much bigger impact than Might Strike, and at the same time tried performing the combination with Enhance Sword and Fire Sword Enhancement that works as he smiled on the battle.

With the Sword Enhance and Fire Sword Enhancement, the total damage for both swords is now between 13,500 to 15,000 with an increase attack speed making him slash and hit faster than ever, but because of that neural command and auto-adaptation skill, Accel's stamina is decreasing much faster than normal making him disadvantage as it gets lower and decided to finish this quest as fast as he can before getting tired and he also has no time drinking his stamina potion in the middle of battle.