Catalyst System

A Powerful Sword or a Great Technique?

    The sun had been overhead, finally the dashing fortress of Tungsten City had been seen. From here, in front of the gate were seen many people queuing up to be able to enter through the strict inspection of the gate guards. When the carriage bearing the glory of Tungsten City came, the officers immediately greeted him and let him in unhindered.

    There are two lanes for anyone entering the City of Tungsten, a pedestrian and horseback riding lane, next to which there is a special track for horse carriages. Horse carriages do require a larger space and usually a longer inspection. Fortunately, currently many in line are pedestrians and some horsemen, so the officers are not troubled when making a breakthrough path for the horse carriage that is being rode by Veroa.

    The heat is so hot, but people – people do not care about it and continue their activities. The smell of sweat can be smelled everywhere, mixed with the smell of ready-to-eat food from street vendors. Once in a while, there was the cry of a little boy who was shouting his desire to buy a snack. There was also a mother-trader who snapped at customers, because bidding prices were too cheap and pushy.

There is no merchant who initiates to offer goods to buyers, the buyer alone is wandering in front of them. Stay waiting for luck, whether the trade sells or not.

Vina seemed to feel hot even though she did not breathe direct sunlight, clearly visible on her forehead began to appear sweat droplets. Moreover, he had no interest in seeing this bustling city street through the slit of the train window. The look on his face now, he did look like he was frowning, for what reason.

Maybe because Veroa is currently focusing on itself, focusing on the screen of the system in front of it. He is currently looking at a new system feature, the Points and Shop feature. During the sentencing period, there was no updated feature of the system yet, this feature appeared after he checked it recently, which was for sure, not while he was still in the Abandoned World.

“According to the guidance of the system, points are earned after I help someone in need, any form of help will be rewarded points. It is very different from the reward after completing the task. Like, extra work? And again, the contents of the Shop are very interesting” muttered Veroa slowly which slightly attracted Vina's attention, but she immediately turned her eyes again in the other direction, trying to ignore Veroa.

While being excited to look around the contents of the Shop, the horse carriage had arrived in front of the palace gate. Inevitably, Veroa had to immediately stop her mandiri activities and when she saw Vina who was indifferent to her, she only realized that during the trip, she had indeed ignored him.

In front of the palace door, a woman in a maroon dress was standing gracefully, it seemed as if she was about to welcome the arrival of Veroa and Vina.

“Welcome back, Mr. Veroa and my beloved son, Vina”.

“The color of the dress and the skin that exudes a pink hue, what a perfect blend, Miss Karina. We, have returned” said Veroa while praising before declaring his return.

Finally, he returned to take care of various documents for the benefit of everyone. Sitting on a chair accompanied by a glass of warm tea just served by a waiter. Usually, people – people want this type of work, but Veroa instead feel bored there.

During these few days, there was nothing interesting, which became his entertainment there maybe the presence of Vina who always looked cheerful, or occasionally he also went to the training field of the soldiers. In his view now, the sword movements of the soldiers looked extremely slow and stiff, after decades of getting used to the fast movements, the movements of everyone in this world felt slow.

One day, he was too curious about the comparison between his strength and the strength of the soldiers who had the spirit, he asked them to come to the training field to invite him to compete. If one by one is not enough, all of them he invites to come at once. In this practice, he told the soldiers to use metal swords instead of the wooden swords usually used for training. No one denied it and they just followed Veroa's lead. They knew their leader was full of surprises. So, they even hastened to be able to carry out their training.

On the training ground, after everyone had gathered, Veroa tried the one person who felt strong to come forward and fight him using honjou masamune.

Armor made of metal covered the entire body, a huge double-edged sword was being held with both hands. The soldier looks gallant with his equipment, now facing Veroa who wears daily clothes with honjou masamune who is still in his sheath at the waist. When someone raises his right hand between the two, then drops off quickly, the time of the match begins and he immediately steps off the field, going to the audience area.

Of the two, it looks like no one has started the movement. The wind was still blowing leisurely, dancing around, carrying dust grains in the field. When a leaf fell on the referee's forehead, that's when Veroa moved forward very quickly and slash! The metal-passioned warrior sword was cut into two pieces. He had not reacted in the slightest and it seemed like he was also surprised by the surprise attack. As for Veroa, he returned to his original position and slowly inserted his honjou masamunenya into the sheath.

After a pause of a few seconds, people – people just realized from his shock and immediately clapped simultaneously. They did not expect that the speed of movement, the precision of the slash, and the strength of the attack were of such high quality, that there was a difference in the level of the sabetage of his sword with their current abilities. A sword that looks thin and slender, besides just one-eyed, can cut a large sword so easily.

“You again?” veroa asked on the sidelines of the applause – people to the soldier in front of him who had not seen any reaction from earlier.

Long in his position of doing the horses, with a slight gust of wind, he faltered and slowly fell to the ground. It was strange that the soldier fainted just from being too shocked by the attack just now. Apparently, at his feet there is a poisonous needle on the trunk there is a paper wrapped around.

“It seems, he was exposed to this poisonous needle a moment before. Try to find anyone who looks suspicious and tell the scouts to investigate the entire city immediately, moreover, the gate guards must be more vigilant and careful” said Veroa immediately instructed the soldiers to face stealth attacks like this. Aside from the one who was summoning the palace physician, he ordered to inspect the entire palace grounds. He left the fainted soldier and left him to his comrade. He himself, immediately went to check on the safety of Karina and Vina who lived in the palace with him.