Modern World Warlock-Chapter 190: The Mysterious White Blade

The day after Alice ate the soulstone made by Dante, she went to the laboratory to meet with him and test her new skills.

June and Megan were curious and accompanied her—and when they arrived at the lab, they found Paige and Dante setting up the MET room for Alice.

For the first test, they wanted to check Alice's strength and speed levels, so they made a few of the ballistic dummies inside the room move around frantically.

However, similar to Megan, Alice already possessed close-combat skills, so it was easy for her to avoid the dummies.

As soon as her fist made contact with the head of one of the dummies, the force of her punch made the target's neck whip backward.

"If that were a person, they would be dead…" Paige commented, noting how the dummy's fake neck bones were all shattered.

It was evident that Alice had an abnormal physical strength, but her level didn't match that of Zac, who was still stronger than her.

Moreover, while Alice was much quicker than Zac, she wasn't as fast as Megan, making her somewhat of a mix between the two.

While Dante and Paige kept studying the trio, the warlock noted that Zac was the strongest but took too many attacks head-on.

Instead of trying to avoid the attacks, Zac would cross his arms in front of his face for cover and use brute force to counter them.

Megan, on the other hand, was the quickest and avoided almost every attack that came towards her, only retaliating when she had an opening.

Alice had both qualities. She was physically stronger than Megan but not as much as Zac, so she was able to take some of the attacks head-on like the redhead.

However, she was quicker than Zac, so she avoided a lot more strikes than him but fewer than Megan.

"Hmm, it seems like her abilities are more balanced," Paige commented, writing it down in her notes and taking a puff of her cigarette.

After she was done with a few rounds against the dummies, Paige opened the armory room to allow the woman to choose a weapon.

Alice was initially confused, explaining that she already knew how to use guns, which were her primary choice of weapons, so she didn't comprehend why she had to pick another one.

Dante explained that, depending on what type of weapon called to her, they could determine what style of fighting best suited her.

As the woman scanned her surroundings inside the armory, she seemed a bit dissatisfied when she noticed that a lot of the equipment looked ancient and deteriorated.

"Why are you guys hoarding all this trash?" Alice inquired, making the warlock shrug.

"It's not trash. Those are all treasures that were excavated by archeologists, okay!?" Paige clarified, slightly taken aback by Alice's comments.

"Sorry, sorry… As I said, I already have my gun, so I don't think any of these weapons will…- Hmm?" Alice stopped herself as her eyes landed on a weapon at the back of the room.

It was a white, double-edged short sword with an ornamental handle, making the woman think that the blade was made of ceramic, as it looked cleaner than the rest of the weapons.

Seeing Alice interested in one of the weapons, Dante sneaked a peek inside the armory, and his eyes widened when he saw the glowing, white blade in the back.

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"Miss Paige… Why do you have that here?" Dante asked, his voice laced with concern.

"Huh? As I said, those weapons are all relics excavated by archeologists… There are only two or three in there that were created by me," Paige replied, pointing at Zac's bat, which was one of the weapons she produced.

Dante explained that white weapons were used by angels or servants of the church in Terra, so he was genuinely perplexed to see one in the armory of the Jade Dragons.

'Angels…!?' Zac pondered.

As Alice felt attracted to the blade, Dante couldn't stop her and decided to see the weapon's reaction, nervously swallowing his saliva.

When the woman grasped the handle of the sword, she picked it up and raised it closer to her face to inspect it, finding the white metal pretty.

Suddenly, the pristine white blade began to turn obsidian black, slowly changing the color of the weapon and its ornaments.

"Wh-what is happening?" Alice asked with concern in her tone.

*Pfft!* "Ahahah!" Dante let out a laugh, confusing everyone around him.

"You guys just keep shattering my expectations," he said, still chuckling.

Paige asked for clarification and waited a few seconds for Dante to compose himself, not understanding why he found the weapon's color transformation to be so amusing.

Dante explained that holy weapons—or white weapons—could be corrupted by a small group of people.

"Holy weapons like those are quite strong against warlocks and demons—Anyone who uses umbra, really…" said Dante.

"But, what would happen if an angel or a priest were able to control umbra?" Dante asked the group.

"It corrupts it?" Zac replied with uncertainty.

Dante nodded affirmatively, saying that it reversed the effects of the holy weapons, which made them more powerful against angels or individuals who could use ether for their magic.

Ether was the opposite energy of umbra, which was produced from the devotion of the people to the gods. Positive feelings also produced ether, but it was mostly generated from reverence for the gods.

"So, does that make Miss Alice something like a dark angel?" Zac asked.

"Well, no… You can't just become an angel," Dante denied his guess.

"Miss Alice is a dark paladin," he continued, and the only one who reacted with awe and surprise was Zac.

"A paladin…?" June interjected, unaware of what a paladin even was.

'Seriously… this is getting more interesting,' Dante thought with a smirk.

All of the memories that the warlock had about paladins were quite awful, but he seemed satisfied with Alice's result.

Before the woman could test her new black blade, Paige asked Dante to give her more information on paladins and all of their variants, as she wanted to write it down in her notes.