>>5397980“I-Is that what I think it is?” she asks, disbelief evident on her face.
“Yeah. This sword is made out of some sort of dragon bone.” you reply, hefting the weapon and setting it back on the holder you'd created on the table. “But what kind of dragon has bones this steeped in some sort of magic? Even after all this time?”
“What do you mean?” she asks, you telling her where your dad and Aku had found the weapon. Buried in an Abyssal trench under the sea, behind a door it took your old man's FULL POWER to open. “Whoever sealed that away really didn't want it ever being seen again.”
“Yeah.” you say, looking into the etchings on the faintly-glowing blade. “Tomorrow I'm gonna take it out for a spin, and see what it-”
“ALERT! DEMON KING'S ARMY DETECTED!” calls out the automated alert from the speaker hooked up on the second floor. “OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ESTIMATED HOSTILES APPROACHING.”
“Haaah, looks like I'm testing it out tonight.” you say with a sigh, rising up to your feet. With the pull of your telekinesis draw your robe to you, putting it on as Megumin sighs out. She rises up to her feet as well, you drawing both of your staves up the stairs into your open left hand. “Here hun. Just in case.”
She takes the staff you'd made for her those years ago, you grabbing your wide-brimmed hat and putting it on your head before lifting the ancient dragon bone sword your father had gotten you into your right hand.
“Well, let's see what the trouble is this time.” you say. Now armed, you both climb up the stairs onto the roof to observe the approaching enemy. With the sun going down, there is just enough light to see an approaching mass moving slowly towards your tower. But once you're outside the protection of your home, you can <span class="mu-i">feel</span> a wave of nauseating energy wash over you. Megumin feels it too, your wife nearly falling over. Luckily you manage to catch her with your left, holding her to your side as the massive army of what is no doubt undead marches on your home.
“What the hell?” you mutter, feeling necromantic energy of an intensity you've never encountered before. Even when you'd wiped out that underground cavern of undead to build your staff, the magic seeping into the very walls and floor, there hadn't been this much of it. Whatever created this massive army is a powerful necromancer indeed. “You okay Megu? You can go back inside if you need to.”
“I-I'm fine.” she says, getting her legs back underneath her and standing up. “Just...Just got me by surprise is all. Should I blow them all away right now? I-I can take them all out, with one shot!”
