1088 Phantom Sword Wood
Date- 4 April 2321
Time- 13:29
Location- Southern Region, Blossom District, Unknown Location
“Relax, nobody will find out,” Jill said nonchalantly, and then waving the orb equipment in her hand she said, “If not for my equipment even I would not have found the artificial soul energy vein. Unless there is another one of you in the base it will be impossible for Luna to figure out what I am doing here, heck they wouldn’t even know that someone is stealing from them.”
Jill was very proud of what she was doing, and then she looked at me in disbelief saying, “hang on second, how did you conclude that I am stealing from them?”
Jill never explained to the boy that the artificial soul energy vein was created using the soul energy that Luna was using for the dungeon relocation experiment.
Jill did say that the dungeon relocation experiment was the cause of the soul energy vein but she never said that the soul energy used to create the soul energy vein was coming from the soul energy being used in the dungeon relocation experiment. No matter how she saw it, it was a bit far-fetched to connect these two incidents and figure out what she was doing here. If it was anybody else, even her, in the boy’s shoes the most she could conclude was that she was using the artificial vein to grow phantom sword woods. Besides, did he not disagree with her? She said that the soul energy vein with an abnormally small width was artificially created. Jill was finding it hard to keep up with the boy’s speed.
Pulling her thoughts together Jill looked at the boy, waiting for an answer from him. Instead, all she got from him was a smug smile, causing her irritation to grow to another level. This was the same as when he managed to send a text to his subordinates by breaking through the net that she considered impenetrable and when he used the loophole in the oath to get his way despite her well-thought-out terms and conditions.
“Enough with the smug smile, just tell me already,” Jill yelled at the boy frustrated.
“You told me,” I answered, lamenting over the fact that Jill’s annoyed face was sexy, reminding me of the saying of a great man, ‘Marry a woman who looks sexy even when annoyed.’
“Enough with charades just tell,” Jill’s face now had a mixture of three different emotions, annoyed, ashamed, and angry.
Annoyed because she couldn’t stand my smug factor answers. Ashamed because she could not me. Angry because I would not stop rubbing in on her shame.
“How about this? I will tell you how if you give me 50 percent of the phantom sword wood you have grown here,” I bargained with Jill. Phantom Sword Wood were artificial ingredients created using the branch of a phantom tree monster, high-level sword intent, and pure soul energy. These three ingredients combined formed the coveted phantom sword wood.
A phantom tree branch has high durability enough to not only conduct high-level sword intent through it but also store high-level sword intent in it. And something incredible happens when enough high-level sword intent is stored in it and fed with soul energy with a high order of purity, it grows into an individual entity called phantom sword wood.
The fascinating thing about the phantom sword wood is the sword intent stored in the original branch of the phantom tree will grow along with the branch by feeding on the soul energy with a high order of purity.
The sword intent is an attribute that attaches to the soul energy of the user and enhances it. So when a sword intent was stored in the branch of the phantom tree, soul energy with the attribute of sword intent was stored in it. This sword intent attribute makes the soul energy very volatile making it impossible to store this energy using conventional means. Therefore, a branch of the phantom wood tree and other high-level substitutes were preferred.
Soul energies with the Sword intent attribute were not only volatile but they do not mix with normal soul energy regardless of the purity of the soul energy useless soul energy also has the attribute of the sword intent. This is why sword intent cards are very popular in martial art type cards.
Therefore when the sword intent attribute soul energy stored in the branch of the phantom tree grew by feeding on the pure soul energy it was almost as if a miracle had happened. And it was considered a separate entity and named phantom sword wood.
This meant that a sword item card made using a phantom sword wood handle came with the effect of sword intent. This meant people did not have to carry two cards, a sword time card, and a sword intent skill card. As a sword item card came with a passive skill sword intent. With such use, the phantom sword wood was an instant hit among the martial art card apprentice community. Trust me that community is not small.
Aside from the martial art card apprentice community, the sword item cards made with the phantom sword wood handles were also a big hit among other card apprentice communities as any card apprentice with a little brain would prefer a sword item card with sword intent passive skill over a normal sword item card.
The widespread demand for the phantom sword could not be met with the rate of production of phantom sword wood because the soul energy used to feed to the phantom sword wood had to be of high-level purity which was very scarce. As refined soul energy was very important for the growth of the card apprentices of any rank, nobody would trade their refined soul energy unless it was absolutely necessary. Not to mention refining the soul energy was not a simple task, it got harder with the increase in the realm as the soul energy used by the high realm card apprentice was of higher concentration.
All this factored into the sky-high price of the phantom sword wood.