NABC Chapter 59 I'll try awakening.
Chapter 59 I'll try awakening.
After 3000 points were deducted, the metal ball in Xu Yuan's hand floated up on its own.
Mist emanated from the void, enveloping it.
There seems to be some kind of change brewing within it.
"What is this?" Theresa asked curiously.
"It's nothing, just a transformation," Xu Yuan said.
A question mark appeared above everyone's heads.
Shouldn't that be quite a rare thing?!
They had never even heard of such a magical prop.
After dealing with the matter of [Wing], Xu Yuan turned his gaze to the Dark Twins and frowned slightly.
He hadn't expected them to be so young.
In the original Claymore manga, there's a scene involving Rafael's memories—
After the failure of the first twin experiment.
Lucyella awakens as the third Great Abyss, while her sister Lafayette leaves the organization and wanders aimlessly.
One day, she heard some news in a town.
It is said that a couple had given birth to twins, and the Claymore organization's men in black came to their door demanding them.
Those twins are probably the Dark Twins.
Later, Lafayette encountered Theresa, who was still a trainee at the time and had run away, in the forest.
Theresa was about 10 years old at that time.
In other words, the Dark Twins are probably 10 years younger than Theresa.
They might even be just a few years younger.
After all, those were Lafayette's memories.
The exact timing is unclear.
All that can be seen is that she recalled things in chronological order.
However, it is unknown how much time passed between hearing the news of the twins in town and encountering young Theresa in the forest.
Perhaps it was on that day, or perhaps it was several years later.
Xu Yuan looked at Theresa: "You're only in your early twenties?!"
Greatswords grow, but they never age.
Therefore, it is difficult to judge their age from their appearance.
Theresa asked疑惑地, "How old do you think I am?"
"He's in his forties, I guess," Xu Yuan said.
The original Claymore manga does not provide specific time information.
However, according to Miria, the demons have only existed on the island for 100 years.
In other words, the organization's history is only 100 years.
The protagonist, Claire, is a trainee from the 150th class. It took her about 10 years to become a greatsword.
It took about one or two years for the war to break out in the north and become a major conflict.
After the war in the north ended, the seven surviving swordsmen went into seclusion to cultivate for seven years before emerging from the mountains and defeating the organization.
Furthermore, considering the necessary preparations the organization would have needed when it first arrived on the island.
Two batches of trainees per year, that's about right.
Theresa was a trainee in the 77th generation, 73 generations behind Claire, which is about 36 years.
She became a trainee when she was about 10 years old.
In other words, Theresa was probably around 46 years old when she met Claire.
She also died that year.
After her death, Claire joined the organization in order to seek revenge.
Xu Yuan felt that the current time was not too far from when Theresa and Claire met.
Because Sofia and Royal are now No. 3 and No. 4 respectively.
They are probably not the type of people who can hold onto these two positions for a long time.
Therefore, the timing should be close to when they appeared in the manga, which is the battle against Theresa.
At most, we can go back a few years.
Isn't that just over 40 years old?
Theresa looked completely bewildered: "I'm 24 years old, how come I'm over 40?!"
She couldn't help but look down at herself.
Do I look very old?
Does this man have something wrong with his eyes?
Xu Yuan thought for a moment, then asked doubtfully, "Doesn't the organization have two batches of trainees per year?"
"Who told you that?" Theresa shook her head. "The number of issues per year isn't fixed."
"Such an unorthodox approach?!" Xu Yuan frowned.
Could it be that he's thinking about the organization too scientifically?
At this moment, Ineli spoke up: "The organization's trainees are added as needed."
"Because trainees are actually reserve soldiers."
"When a large number of soldiers die, the organization will speed up the selection process in order to replenish the ranks."
"This will lead to a large number of trainee deaths."
"Because the selection pass rate is very low."
"Therefore, the organization will expedite the recruitment of trainees."
"Conversely, if no soldiers die in a year, the organization has no need to select new soldiers."
"Because the entire continent was divided into 47 regions, there were also 47 warriors, each responsible for one region."
"The large number of deaths caused by the lack of selection naturally slows down the replenishment of trainees."
"Oh, I see." Xu Yuan nodded.
Theresa said, "There have been cases where there were 12 issues a year before."
"What happened?"
"The year I became a trainee, Lucyella awakened. At that time, more than half of the warriors, including the trainees, died, and the organization almost collapsed. In the years that followed, the organization frantically replenished its ranks with trainees."
"The time the first twin experiment failed, right?"
The trainees of the Claymore Organization were not as standardized as Xu Yuan had originally imagined, like the admissions process in modern schools.
Instead, it is more arbitrary, cruel, and bloody.
It can be said that the trainees are treated as a pool to produce greatswords, and replenished according to the consumption.
Upon closer reflection, this undoubtedly aligns more closely with the organization's approach of treating greatswords as experimental subjects.
Moreover, if things had gone according to his original plan, Theresa would probably have remained in the No. 1 position for two or three decades.
This is taking far too long.
Keep in mind that the Claymore organization has only existed for 100 years.
It might not even be that far yet, because Miria only gave a rough estimate.
Xu Yuan looked at Theresa: "I thought you'd at least live to your 40s in the story, but now it seems you're at most 30. By the way, how old were you when you became a trainee?"
"9 years old."
"At what age did you become a Claymore user?"
"17 years old."
"What about No. 1?"
"20 years old."
"You're really good at slacking off."
"What do you mean?" Theresa asked, puzzled.
Xu Yuan shook his head: "It's nothing."
After saying that, he released his soul power and swept it towards the helicopter wreckage not far away.
Those two high-ranking members of the organization have disappeared.
There was a male corpse, a pilot, whose clothing was clearly modern.
Of course, the most crucial point is that he did not disappear after his death.
They are clearly people from the real world.
Xu Yuan was not surprised by this.
With its military might and financial resources, the Claymore Organization can easily recruit subordinates.
There are two metal boxes, one large and one small, in the back seat.
The small tin box contained various jewels.
The large iron box contained some fresh flesh and blood.
It is not a mixture of flesh and blood from the descendants of dragons.
It's probably the flesh and blood of an awakened being.
Let's deal with it.
Thinking this, Xu Yuan walked over there.
He hadn't walked more than a few steps when he suddenly stopped and turned around to look at the Dark Twins following behind him.
Irene did not tie their legs.
"Why are you following me?" Xu Yuan asked, puzzled.
The two sisters did not speak, but simply looked at him silently with their empty, inorganic eyes.
"Do you want revenge?" Xu Yuan said, untying the ropes binding them.
However, they did not take any action.
He suddenly thought of another possibility and shook his head.
"You can't just find someone else to give you orders just because the organization is gone."
The others watched this scene in astonishment.
Sophia asked curiously, "Why did they choose Mr. Xu? Aren't we their kind?"
Galadriel pondered, "Perhaps it's precisely because they are of the same kind that a monster would choose another monster?"
Eniri shook her head: "Do they even have that level of self-awareness?"
Inili didn't know, but Xu Yuan did.
The so-called twin experiment involves two sisters undergoing mental synchronization. When one sister is fully awake, she hands over control of her mind to the other sister, thereby deactivating her awakened state and restoring her to human form.
In the final battle of the Dark Twins.
Bissie is stabbed in the body by a fragment of the Destroyer, loses control and awakens, and engages in battle with Priscilla.
In order to save her sister, Alicia chose to awaken.
This means they will be unable to revert to being human.
Later, when Alicia died at Priscilla's hands, Bissie shed tears, her emotions turning extremely angry and sorrowful.
In other words, even many years later, the sisters still maintained a very deep emotional bond.
Not to mention they are only 13 years old.
The more self-awareness is retained, the more one will retain.
However, they're probably hiding very well.
Xu Yuan sighed, patted their heads, and said earnestly, "You don't need to follow me, nor do you need to follow anyone else."
"Do whatever you want."
"No one will try to control you anymore, and no one will force you anymore."
"Alice, Bissie, you are free."
Are we free?
Actually not.
Xu Yuan was well aware of this.
When they return to the story, they will still follow the original plot path.
But before that, in this real world.
They can enjoy a brief period of freedom.
Xu Yuan hadn't figured out how to deal with them yet.
I can't bring myself to do it.
It wasn't because of friendship.
He had no connection with the twins.
I didn't really like them when I read the comics.
The reason they couldn't bring themselves to do it was simply because they were too young.
This violates his moral bottom line.
After all, he's not an Israeli.
Even though killing them would only send them back to their original world, it's still hard to bring myself to do it.
Moreover, returning to the original world is not a good thing either.
It's no different from pushing them into a fire pit.
Ever since he transmigrated to this world and learned what he had to do, Xu Yuan knew that he would eventually face a moral dilemma.
But he didn't expect this day to come so soon.
He doesn't really care whether the character is a righteous one or one he likes.
It's simply a matter of different perspectives.
This was the only thing that put him in a difficult position.
Anyway, the spatial nodes in "Claymore" can't be turned off anytime soon, so let's just leave it at that for now and ignore them.
He continued walking toward the helicopter wreckage.
After taking a few steps, he turned back to look at the twins who were following him closely and said, "Stop. Don't follow me. Go do what you want to do."
This time, the Dark Twins stopped in their tracks.
They didn't follow.
Shinichi Kamiya kept turning back, asking worriedly, "Lord Xu Yuan, are we really not going to do anything about them?"
Xu Yuan gently shook his head.
The best way is to give them space to be alone.
Once they realize that no one wants to control or force them, their self-awareness will naturally recover.
After all, they aren't real dolls.
After disposing of the Awakened's flesh and blood, Xu Yuan returned to the basket and took out the swords.
"System, can I use a greatsword to devour another greatsword?"
When upgrading equipment, it needs to consume equipment of the same type and quality or higher.
【Daizong】is blue.
And all of these greatswords are of green quality.
No. Only equipment belonging to the host can absorb other equipment to improve its quality.
As for the swords in front of us, they clearly do not belong to this category.
He couldn't even put them into his inventory.
If there is a way to localize them, it might be possible to turn them into our own equipment.
Xu Yuan took out the [Hardwood Staff] he had drawn earlier, preparing to upgrade it to blue quality.
As for features, they don't matter.
Anyway, it's used to feed Mount Tai.
Just then, Galadriel walked over, holding a comic book in her hand: "Mr. Xu."
"What is it?" Xu Yuan asked.
"Could you help us interpret the text above?"
"Oh." Xu Yuan shrugged his right shoulder slightly. "Xiao Ya, go help them."
"Yes, Master." The little crow flapped its wings.
The others stared wide-eyed.
This bird can actually talk?!
Do birds even know how to read in the real world?!
Everyone lowered their heads in shame.
Galadriel hesitated for a moment before saying, "Actually, I can read, but the writing on this isn't from our world."
Xu Yuan raised an eyebrow in surprise, then nodded slightly: "I see."
They're speaking Japanese, but using a different script?
However, since a world has emerged, it is conceivable that different languages would also emerge.
Perhaps there are languages that don't exist in the real world, beyond the island that serves as the stage for the story.
"No wonder I couldn't understand it!" Royal exclaimed.
Sophia scoffed, "Even if it were our world's language, Miss Royal wouldn't understand it, would she?"
With Xiaoya's explanation, the group from the Claymore world gathered together to read the Claymore manga.
Xu Yuan then found a place to close his eyes and rest.
After all, absorbing equipment doesn't require him to do anything.
Just wait.
It takes about 10 minutes to consume a piece of equipment.
During this time, he scanned the twins with his soul power and found that they were still standing there obediently.
Like a puppet without a self.
After spending half an hour upgrading the [Hardwood Staff] to blue, Xu Yuan then took out the [Walnut Wood Proverb].
He doesn't actually use this thing much.
After feeding him two greatswords, just as he was about to feed him the third.
A system notification popped up.
The "wing" modification is complete.
[The "Wing" has been upgraded to purple quality.]
At the same time, the small metal ball that had been suspended in the air fell back into Xu Yuan's hand.
The surface of the sphere, already engraved with red and black patterns, now had some dark gray cloud patterns added.
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【wing】
Type: Equipment/Accessories
Quality: Purple
Feature 1: Significantly increases movement speed (requires continuous energy consumption)
Feature 2: Flight (requires continuous energy consumption)
Feature 3: Demon Power Awakening (Releases the demon power stored in the equipment to awaken, exits the awakening state after stopping the release of demon power, the consumed demon power can be slowly restored by feeding energy, current remaining demon power: 100%)
Durability: 50/50
Evaluation: A living piece of equipment, your energy is undoubtedly the most delicious food for it.
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When Xu Yuan put the [Wing] into his equipment slot and summoned it, everyone else immediately looked over.
"Demon power?!"
"Hmm," Xu Yuan responded casually, "I'll try awakening it."
Everyone: "???"
No, what are you planning to do?