Administrator Appears

From no tier to Tier B! Zach has never seen that before, Veil is a truly unimaginable person, every moment he feels like he knows Veil, later on she would prove him wrong, albeit, unintentionally.

Orzok then explained to Veil that she is only allowed to go up to tier B as per the unwritten rule of the Underworld, she also warned her of the existences known as the Administrators.

They are said to be extremely powerful and elusive in their actions, but up until this point, they are only lying low as no one among the various cities' lords are a challenge to them.

However, now that Veil, a new unknown variable has appeared, they would grow wary of her and deal with her as soon as possible.

After explaining all the details Veil should know, Veil finally departed out of Onaross as the Lionblade members thanked her and bid goodbye.

[…]

After the night falls, Veil searched for a safe spot before going to sleep, she has a new start tomorrow onwards to search for clues in going to Tier A.

As far as she knows, only by defeating an Administrator could she be granted a Tier A assessment and a certain level of authority within the Underworld, through that authority, she would be able to gain more clues towards Tier S.

While sleeping, the blade spirits who have been inactive since she departed from Terra showed up.

They were informing her that the true Nightshade, the blade of the Noctuas, wants to converse with her.

Veil then met up with Nightshade within her dream.

The true Nightshade appears to be a woman with purplish skin and white hair; she is like a Dark Elf.

"I have recovered a fraction of my powers through your constant improvement and growth, for my thanks, I shall serve as your blade from now onwards to your ultimate goal!" Nightshade declared with a serious tone.

"How will you achieve that, Lord Nightshade?" Veil inquired in a respectful manner.

"I have noticed that you do not have a weapon on you anymore and after entering the Underworld, you lost the ability to control your shadows."

"However, I know just how dangerous the Underworld is, without a weapon with great compatibility with you, you will struggle to survive."

"On that end, I, with my recovered powers, will gather all the blade spirits to manifest as a Ruined Blade for you to wield."

"Even if it is a Ruined Blade, it will cut all through wood and steel in the world; slay even greater foes and evil forces."

"With your willpower and new mission, collect the lost shards of the Ruined Blade Umbral Reaver!"

"The shards will react and resonate with the Umbral Reaver when you encounter them, they may have been recast as new weapons, they may have collected by unknown entities, search for them and you shall receive the greatest power of the Noctua!" Nightshade explained in complete detail with a great excitement.

"I understand Lord Nightshade. Please take care of me as I wield you." Veil kneeled in front of Nightshade.

Nightshade then called forth all the blade spirits of the Noctua, today, they will gain a new will through a form of a Ruined Blade; with the inheritor of the will in the Noir they will eternally lose their own sentience.

When all the spirits unanimously agreed, they slowly permeated Nightshade's forehead directly into her soul.

She felt the power instantly, her time as a sentient existence would also disappear, but she bit her lower lip and started an incantation.

Noctuan Bloodline: Corporeal Manifestation!

Manifest into a Ruined Blade, Umbral Reaver!

Authority: Nightshade, the sole survivor of the Noctuas.

Vuimmmmm!

Nightshade shed a tear as she turned into a black smoke that spread in the air, the smoke then soon filled the air inside Veil's dream.

After a few moments, the smoke turned into a black mist that slowly condensed into a shape of a small sword with only a handle and a short piece of blade.

It is surely a Ruined Blade.

All the black mist then formed the Umbral Reaver, it now floated in front of the kneeling Veil.

She slowly stood back up and tightly grasped the handle.

Rip!

The instant she touched the sword, a thundering sensation pierced her mind and soon after resisting the extreme pain, all her clothes and even armor disintegrated into ash.

Her perfect body is now visible, every curves of Veil's grown-up body has been revealed after wielding the sword.

She is now 24 years old, it has been a long period of time since she first read the Noir and encountered the blade spirits.

Now, she fully inherits Nightshade's will as all of them took the form of a Ruined Blade.

After closing her eyes, Veil felt a pulsating power from the Umbral Reaver, she toughened her resolve to purge the darkness that caused the fall of the Noctuas and also recover her identity.

As she slowly opened her eyes, a thick black liquid came out from the Umbral Reaver as it soon wrapped Veil's entire body.

After swirling around and so, the black liquid transformed into a similar armor that she wore before it disintegrated, but now, a lightweight midnight black armor protected her body, together with a black cloak.

[…]

After waking up from the birds' chirps, Veil found out that her armor was now similarly changed; on her waist is also her new weapon: the Ruined Blade, Umbral Reaver.

She then continued her journey towards larger cities.

However, while she was running and dashing around, she suddenly found herself stuck in a time loop.

She feels like the forest she was running in was just replaying over and over, she could run here endlessly and never reach the end.

She momentarily stopped to investigate; she drew a large line with her sword and even toppled some trees in the process, she then began to run again.

After a few moments or so, she found the line and the trees; she is indeed stuck in a loop.

With no other viable options left, she tried attacking everywhere to search for clues or cause a change.

She very much destroyed the ground and lots of trees, but to no avail.

She then tried jumping upwards with great force; her legs slightly ballooned up with muscles.

Shoot! Crumble!

The ground cracked as she jumped; however, she felt a slightly different sensation from above.

She then jumped again but she slashed the air when she reached highest point of her jump.

Crack!

She heard a cracking sound when she slashed an invisible barrier, just as she was about to jump again, someone appeared behind her.

"You really are instinctive as they say." A mysterious woman spoke with slightly amused voice.

"Who are you?" Veil answered before standing back up.

This mysterious woman was the same woman who gave Tiberius the potion that let him transform into a monster.

"I am Solara, the Administrator of this land you are traversing." Solara spoke in a disinterested tone.

"I got lucky then; you are the one I was searching for." Veil tightened her hold in her sword.

"Me? Just because you reached Tier B you are already challenging me?" Solara sneered.

Veil did not reply because her goal was beyond just climbing tiers.

"I take that as a yes then." A shining light then became a pair of shortswords that appeared in her hands.

Shing!

Solara immediately brandished the swords, seeing the thousands of cuts and spatial tears in the air, Veil struggled to cope with her broken sword.

She could barely hit the slashes to deflect some of them and block the others.

However, the latter option causes her to take steps back because blocking the attacks makes her receive the force as well.

When she was running out of ideas, she suddenly remembered Nightshade's words for using the Umbral Reaver.

She applied the Divine Technique on the Umbral Reaver to increase its range, the instant she did so, the runic engravings on the blade glowed crimson red.

She just charged her mana through the sword onto the blade with a goal of increasing its range, but she did not expect that it will cause such a difference.

A soothing feeling graced on her mind while she holds her sword tightly.

After shortly bathing in the new sensation in her mind, she slashed the attacks with a long horizontal swipe just before she gets hit.

Swing!

The attacks coming at her were all repelled with the force of her slash.

A breakthrough!

She finally turned the Divine Techniques she learned from Azazel into a greater power, utilizing it not just to extend her weapon's range, but also its potential to dish out than just single point damage.

Before, she imagined it only as a devastating slash with a large range; however, she widened the area of effect of her slash into a larger point.

Through the simple test, she was able to see mind-blowing results as she wiped the rain of attacks from the Administrator.

Seeing that her initial attacks failed, Solara's shortswords glowed with blinding light yet again, now, scorching energy envelops her.

Mana Expansion: Sun God's Waltz!

After expanding the glowing light into the whole forest, an uncomfortable feeling dawned on Veil who instantly felt the rising temperature.

However, Solara could not be more satisfied from the effects of her domain; she then made an x-mark with her swords over her head.

Vuimmm!

Skill: Cross Blaze!

After the shortswords are imbued with flames, she began another frenzy of attacks with an even greater force.

Veil, on the receiving end of the flame attacks, similarly constructed her own domain to lessen the oppression from the Administrator's flame array.

Mana Expansion: Shadow Envoy's Descent!

Now that she is feeling lighter and calmer from the lesser temperature, she generated her own flames in her palms.

It has been a long time since she felt the burning sensation from the Flames of the Devourer she received from Lauerveck.

From her left palm, she pushed it forward with the ever-growing dark-blue flames as it smothered the raining flames.

The moment the red-orange flames from Solara touched her dark-blue flames, the collision exploded.

The excess flames rained down everywhere as the trees burned.

However, Solara used the exact moment the explosion happened to charge towards Veil.

Skill: Lightsong's Emergence!

The shortswords slashed Veil on her torso; fortunately her black armor is sturdier than adamantine.

She only received the full force of the attacks as she was sent crashing down like a cannonball.

She collided on countless rocks before falling down; she was knocked out in one move!

Solara slowly approached the unconscious Veil and lightly squeezed her glowing shortswords.

The shortswords then become orbs of light and seeped into her palms.

"You are one of the few individuals who survived longer than 5 minutes in front of me." Solara declared in a praising tone.

She then transformed in a streak of light as she danced out of the forest.

The invisible pseudo-dimension inside the forest then cancelled out the time loop as everything turns back into normal.

All the craters and cracks on the ground reverted and even the burning trees are good as new.

This is one of the powers by a Hero who long since disappeared back from the Ancient War.

Unbeknownst to Veil, her opponent is one of the Heroes titled as the Helios Dancer, who also wields the Lightsong, one of the 10 Famed Legendary weapons!