Upgrade requires 35 uses.

"25 mana cost is significantly more than Seed Machine Gun and Fine Snow. I wonder if its power is also much greater than those two skills... Oh well, I'll just go draw a weapon. It feels weird not having a good weapon right now." After checking the description of Assassination, Lu Ming opened his inventory and used a new weapon draw ticket, also from Rosalia.

"Fran Greatsword, Dragon Slayer Spear, Dragon Slayer Spear... Irithyll Straight Sword?" Watching the weapons on the scroll wheel spin one by one, finally stopping on a white longsword, Lu Ming didn't know whether to be happy or unhappy.

"Irithyll Straight Sword: The sword of the knights who conquer the Boreal Valley."

Legend has it that this longsword was forged from the teeth of a Kyurem, the chilling aura emanating from it being the best proof. However, it is considered an extremely ominous treasure because it is believed that its wielder will eventually turn into a mad beast.

Special Enhancement: The sword generates a chilling wind when swung. Opponents struck by the sword will be frozen by the sword's icy aura, resulting in reduced speed and doubled ice damage.

As soon as I took the new weapon, the Irithyll Straight Sword, out of my inventory, a gust of cold wind swept through the room, chasing away the early summer heat.

The straight sword is about one meter long, not as long as a longsword, but still a bit longer than the old crystal slender sword.

Holding the pristine white straight sword, Lu Ming gazed at its clearly visible patterns and muttered to himself, "It's quite fitting for someone from the Icy Valley to be wielding a weapon from there! However, the new main quest, 'Exterminate the Deep,' requires me to wipe out all the Deep Cursed Ones in the forest. Although the Deep Cursed Ones only offer 800 experience points, making them inferior to that wild boar in both experience and strength, there are still hundreds, if not thousands, of Deep Cursed Ones in the forest. It's not going to be easy."

Just then, Lily walked in and said to him, "Yusahar is back. She also brought back a nobleman."

Hearing Lily's words, Lu Ming looked out the window at the afternoon sun with a puzzled expression, thinking: Why is she back at this time? This is not like her usual style!

But doubts remained doubts; he still needed to meet Yusaha and that nobleman.

After all, he hadn't yet decided whether to break up with Yusaha, the woman who had given herself to him.

After inserting the Irithyll Straight Sword into the scabbard originally intended for an ordinary longsword, Lu Ming and Lily went downstairs and met the nobleman in the living room.

“I am the Lord of Achilles, my name is Medivh Ams, and I am a baron.”

"Baron Lu Ming from Irithyll of the Valley."

After exchanging nods, Lu Ming and the nobleman sat down one after the other.

"Baron Arms, I wonder what brings you to my residence this time...?"

"I did it because of Yusaha... Oh! I'm sorry, I shouldn't have called your fiancée's name so affectionately."

"..."

“I am Mrs. Sachi’s colleague and childhood friend. She told me that you have a daily supply of five Moon Arrows, so I would like to buy them at ten silver coins each. You should know that as more and more people start completing the Crescent Wolf quest, the price of Moon Arrows will keep dropping. The price I am offering is already quite high.”

Lu Ming glanced at Yusaha, who was increasingly disappointing him, and then said to Yusaha's so-called childhood friend, "The five Moonlight Arrows are supplies from my hometown, and I cannot sell them. Also, I am very sorry to have made you come all this way for nothing."

“No, you’re too kind. Since you don’t intend to sell those Moon Arrows, I’ll take my leave.” Baron Ams immediately stood up and left quickly after Lu Ming rejected his offer.

Watching Baron Arms's retreating figure, Lu Ming felt very uneasy.

But Yusahar didn't see this. She was furious that Lu Ming had refused to sell the Moonlight Arrows, and disregarding his feelings, she angrily questioned, "Why won't you agree? You're not an archer, what do you need those Moonlight Arrows for!? To eat them!?"

"Yusaha, what do you want? Gold coins? Or the academy?" Looking at the furious Yusaha, Lu Ming suppressed his anger and asked in return.

Yusaha sensed something was wrong from Lu Ming's words and immediately backed down.

"I'm sorry. I was too hasty."

“If you want to open a magic academy, we can raise money together. But I can’t accept your current behavior. Also, I don’t want you to go to that private school anymore.”

"But......"

"No buts!!" Lu Ming slammed his fist on the table in a rage, stood up, pointed at Yusaha, and roared, "I'm no longer that poor wretch who had to stay in your house! I'm a nobleman now! And you shouldn't be putting on airs anymore!!"

"..." Looking at the furious Lu Ming, Yusaha was too scared to say a word, completely bewildered as to why Lu Ming had changed so much in just over a week.

"Yusahar Sachi! You said you were my fiancée, whom I won through a martial arts contest. But I don't see anything about you that a fiancée should do. Ever since I won the duel, you've been using my name to teach soul magic to others. But is the magic they want to learn yours, Yusahar? No! What they want is me, my Lu Ming's Soul Frost! They don't even look at your magic!"

Upon hearing Lu Ming's words, Yusaha couldn't help but burst into tears.

But Lu Ming showed not a shred of sympathy.

If Lu Ming still fantasized about continuing his relationship with Yusaha before meeting Baron Ams, that unrealistic fantasy shattered after he learned that Yusaha had told others about the Moon Arrow supply, which Lu Ming had jokingly mentioned.

“Ms. Yusaha Sachi, I think we should break up! I don’t want to be stabbed to death in the back by my wife in the future!”

"I won't!" Yusaha shook his head desperately, hoping that Lu Ming would change his mind.

Unfortunately, Lu Ming had already made up his mind: "You will."

Yusaha stared wide-eyed at Lu Ming, whose face was covered in frost, feeling an overwhelming sense of heartbreak.

It's impossible for Yusaha not to like Lu Ming. Perhaps Yusaha has been suppressing her feelings for Lu Ming, but there's still some there. And now, Lu Ming has said he wants to break up, which she, having gone too far, finds hard to accept.

Seeing Yusahar's near despair, Lu Ming silently went upstairs, avoiding looking at her face. If they were going to break up, they should break up completely!

After Lu Ming left, Yusaha left Lu Ming's house in despair.

She knew she had gone too far today; she shouldn't have told anyone about Moonarrow. Unfortunately, she was blinded by greed when she learned that Medivh Arms was acquiring Moonarrow.

Standing on the road outside Lu Ming's residence, Yusaha wept bitterly. Just like she had said a month ago, she had been kicked out of her home. Because of her impatience and greed, her dreams had once again become an unattainable dream.

Meanwhile, Lu Ming locked himself in his room.

He sat behind the door, filled with sadness and grief.

Lu Ming's heart was also torn apart by his own actions. Although it hurt a lot and he was in great pain, he did not regret it.

He also wanted to open a school, although his initial idea was simply to change the squalor and disorder of the slums. However, this didn't contradict Yusaha's ideals, so he mistakenly thought that establishing their own magic academy with Yusaha would be a good idea.

But did Yusahar really care about him? What fiancée wouldn't come home for half a month? Her job wasn't particularly demanding. Didn't all her colleagues go home by 6 pm? So what was she doing? Summarizing her teaching experience, or trying to find someone to buy the crow-man dagger she got from Lu Ming?

The Moonlight Arrow incident forced Lu Ming to break up with Yusaha. However, it wasn't that he didn't want to give her another chance, but her hesitation when Lu Ming told her not to go to class anymore made him realize that he was not important to her at all.

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"Yusaha, calm down! Calm down!"

"Enough talk, Sinai!!" *Slash!*

Parry! Fatal attack! A graceful turn!

Chapter Thirty-Eight - Opposing Swords

Sitting in a tavern in the business district, Yusahar's colleagues, her two brothers, and Dex, who was now Fren's subordinate, looked at Yusahar, who had drunk countless bottles of alcohol and was completely drunk, and all sighed slightly.

She went too far and caused Lu Ming to break up with her.

However, both Lu Ming's former friend Dex and Yusaha's two brothers knew that this ending was inevitable.

From the day Yusahar chose to conceal Gwyndolin's phantom from Lu Ming, they knew that one day it would turn out like this. They just didn't expect it to happen so quickly.

"I gave him my first time, what more does he want? All I asked him to do was sell some Moon Arrows! Is it really necessary to break up with me?" Yusaha, drunk and confused, rambled on.

"Didn't you mess things up yourself? I told you not to stay away from home all the time, but you still didn't come home. If he doesn't break up with you, who will he break up with? Lily Helas, who's always been there for him, or that obedient and well-behaved housekeeper?" Yusahar's colleague, who had also had a few drinks, sneered.

"Do you think I don't want to go home? I'm scared! I might really fall in love with him!"

"Is there anything wrong with falling in love with him? If you love him and he loves you, wouldn't you be in this situation?"

"You make it sound so easy! You're not an aristocrat, how would you know the intricacies involved? When I was little, my mother told me that aristocrats don't need love. A partner is just a tool; as long as you can hold them in your hand, that's enough!"

Upon hearing the drunken Yusahar mention the lord, her colleagues and the others fell silent. Only Hax, the one with the best chance of inheriting Niflheim, dared to speak.

"So she was all alone her whole life. Even this territory was only given to her out of pity."

Upon hearing what Hax said, Yusaha was completely stunned and looked at Hax with disbelief.

"She was originally the mistress of a prince. After the prince's death, to avoid being buried alive with him, she married my father, becoming the wife of the former Grand Duke of Erebus. But during the underground rebellion more than twenty years ago, she resolutely sided with the current Grand Duke and became pregnant with you. Thinking she could get Erebus from the current Grand Duke, she had her face burned in a battle after you, and naturally, the Hadist family took my father's territory. She herself became the lord of Niflheim, going from a high-ranking duchess to a minor count! And I, from the son of a duke, became a pitiful wretch vying for the count's title."

Hax glanced at Yusaha and said viciously, "Originally, I hated you. But when I saw her trying to turn you into someone like her, I felt I should help you. That's why I cared about you and Fren, unlike her. To be honest, when I found out about your relationship with Lu Ming, I was happy for you. I thought you wouldn't treat feelings like she did, using them as something to be exploited. In the end, you still overplayed your hand."

After a cold laugh, Hax continued, "Now, she probably knows about your breakup with Lu Ming. She's already found a noble who wants you and supports her in remaining a lord. From now on, you'll only be a plaything! You won't even get the title of 'Qingren'!"

After hearing what Hax said, Yusaha fainted and was taken back to the villa that had been repaired by Furen and his colleagues.

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Late at night, Yusaha, now fully awake, lay trembling on the bed where Lu Ming had once slept.

She couldn't imagine the bleak future that Hax described. She didn't want to become a nobleman's plaything—a plaything whose limbs would be cut off and who would be buried alive if they disobeyed!

Unfortunately, she ruined her relationship with Lu Ming herself. She could no longer rely on Lu Ming to protect her.

Fear spread through her heart like a spider web, eroding her soul.

But just then, her phone rang.

She picked it up and saw a message.

Do you want to escape that fate? Do you want to take control of your own destiny? Do you want to fulfill your dreams?

From: Eldridge.

Upon seeing this message, Yusaha, in the darkness, felt as if he had seen the light. Ignoring whether it was a trap set by the devil, he nodded and said, "I want to!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a large amount of black mud suddenly appeared on the screen, covering the entire area, which startled her so much that she threw her phone aside.

But soon, the black mud flowed into the phone and disappeared without a trace.

When she picked up the phone, she immediately discovered that three apps were open on it! They were Attributes, Store, and Messages.

Name: Yusaha Sachi

Gender: Female

Race: Human (Deep 1%)

Rating: 7

Experience required to reach the next level: 1674

Stamina: 22

Power: 24

Agility: 19

Intelligence: 21

Spirit: 21

Mana: 350

Soul count: 150000

Affiliation: The Church of the Deep

System evaluation: A powerful magical apprentice from the Deep Cathedral.

Looking at the rows of data in the attribute bar that he couldn't understand at all, Yusaha opened the information bar with prompts.

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