Pallas’ Watch, Godsfall Mountains. Day 06.
Alert! Subclass overridden. Pirate Subclass has been changed to Soul Forger. All experience gained from your previous subclasses has been carried over to your new, permanent subclass.
Current Subclass level: 232
Alert! An item within your inventory has changed. Item: Mil’s Judgement has changed to Ukonvasara
Item: Ukonvasara
Type: Weapon—Great Hammer
Construction: Soul Forged—Remnant of the Sentinel, Saiph
Rarity: Soulbound
Stats:
Base Damage: 56,700 (Lightning)
Durability: Infinite
Enchantments:
This weapon’s base damage scales with the level of the wielder.
Damage dealt by this weapon cannot be mitigated by any means.
This weapon is Soul Forged; as it scales in power, so too shall the wielder scale with it. This weapon draws upon the experience of those slain by it to level the wielder beyond their natural limitations.
Alert! You have found an item!
Item: Lindsong
Type: Instrument—Violin
Construction: Soul Forged—Remnant of the Bard, Taika
Rarity: Soulbound
Stats:
Base Incantation scaling: 2,227
Durability: Infinite
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Enchantments:
This instrument’s base incantation scaling scales with the level of the wielder.
Buffs and debuffs inflicted by the music of this instrument cannot be mitigated by any means.
This instrument is Soul Forged; as it scales in power, so too shall the wielder scale in power with it. This weapon draws upon the experience of those slain by it to level the wielder beyond their natural limitations.
“Isaac! Are you okay?” Nix shouted inches from Saiph’s face, but he sounded distant and faint.
A hand came down hard, but Saiph grabbed it. “You’d better not.”
“It worked last time,” Nix said, though without his usual sarcasm. “What happened? You were just… gone for several seconds and now your subclass…”
Saiph dismissed the prompts that clouded his vision. For the first time since waking up in this world, he realized his headache was gone. He could think with a clarity he hadn’t realized he’d lost.
“I was summoned…” The entire moment was still fresh in his mind. “To a thousand years ago.”
“Summoned? Did you happen to find anything about what’s happened to us?” Nix asked slowly.
Saiph nodded. “Yeah. There’s a war going on and we’re losing.”
“And we’re supposed to fight it, right? Why didn’t whoever told you that, I don’t know, leave us a message telling us that?”
Saiph bent down and picked up the necklace he’d dropped. He pulled the pulsing amethyst, no, Caer Fragment, free from its place as the pendant. As he held it, he suddenly understood.
I couldn’t let you die. Riley, or, rather, Reylynn, had seen the accident coming that night. Somehow she’d saved him at the cost of her own life.
Saiph smiled sadly at the realization, he whispered quietly to himself, “So that’s why I could never surprise you.”
“What?” Nix asked.
Holding up the Caer Fragment to Nix, Saiph replied to his earlier question, “Reylynn did leave us a message. We just didn’t find it soon enough. Give me a moment and I’ll explain everything.”
Saiph opened up a voice call with Will-I-Am, Quark, and Kamila and told them to hurry up to his room.
When the five of them were in his room, Saiph told everyone about what had happened when he’d been summoned to the past. About how he was the one who designed Annwyn Online and that there were no developers, good or evil, that would send them home.
He told them of the Remnants and how each of the twelve classes were designed around them.
“We need to get the other Remnants, but I don’t know where they are.” Saiph paused. “Well, except for three of them.”
Raine’s swords, Caliburn and Clarent, Remnant of the Sword Saint. Ukonvasara, Remnant of the Sentinel and Saiph’s hammer. And Lindsong, Remnant of the Bard.
Nix summoned Raine and they brought her up to speed. Saiph hadn’t felt the same flood of memories he’d felt when he’d picked up his hammer when he’d touched Raine’s red and gold sword, which meant however she was summoned here, her sword was an imitation. She confirmed that at least one of the swords was on the islands bearing her name.
“We have to go get it,” Saiph told Raine.
“As I said, it would be nigh impossible.” Raine said.
“We’re not worried about Avanyu. If we find him, we will slay him.” Saiph replied. It wasn’t just bravado, they needed to slay the sea monster.
“It’s not just Avanyu who guards those islands. Ask yourself this: if you really intend to go there, how quickly could you field a navy?”
Saiph took a moment to lock eyes with Will, who met his eye and caught his unspoken meaning: What was the Brotherhood of Pirates if not the largest Navy on the continent?
