The Katana

"Oh~" Ravenna didn't know what she just listened to, but she felt those were some wise words. So, she secretly memorized those.

Thip

Max did a small chop on her head and said. "Don't get dazed, we will in a few minutes."

Ravenna nodded her head and waited beside Max, looking at the meat slowly cooking under the fire.

…

"Lord, this tastes better than eating raw!" Ravenna said excitedly as she chewed on the cooked meat.

Max also bit into his share of meat and said, disappointedly. "It would have tasted better if we had some spices."

Ravenna tilted her head and spoke with the meat in her mouth. "Lom…wam ii pice?"

Max squinted his eyes and bonked on her head again. "Don't try to speak when you have food in your mouth."

Ravenna caressed her head, where Max just hit and pouted. But she listened to his words and gulped down the meat. Then she asked her previous question. "Lord, what is spice?"

"Spices are magical ingredients that can change the flavor of food however you want." Max had already readied an answer for that, so he was able to answer that question right away.

"Wow!" Ravenna was again shocked. "Lord, you know about so many magical items. Is this spice also discovered by humans?"

Max finished his meat while nodding his head. He turned his head toward Ravenna and said. "Finish your food quickly. I want to check something."

Ravenna nodded her head and ate the meat in a few seconds.

'She is a glutton.' Max couldn't help but say when he saw her finish that fast.

Max tossed those thoughts away and went to an open area. Ravenna followed behind him, curious about what Max wanted to try.

After coming to an open area, Max said in his mind. 'System, give me the rewards.'

Right as he finished saying that, a portal like the previous time opened. From it a purple yet rusty book dropped, and alongside it came a long, two-and-a-half meter long katana that's whole body was dark as void.

Max caught the handle of the katana with his right hand and the book with his left. He was expecting his hand to dig down after grabbing it, as katanas were generally heavy. But when he caught it in his hands, he felt he was holding the lightest object in his life.

Ravenna peeked her head around his shoulder and looked at the sword that was bigger than her and Max. The moment her eyes laid on it, she felt her heart pounding rapidly. This made her stumble back and fall to the ground.

However, Max turned around and caught her in time. He asked curiously. "Is there something wrong?"

Ravenna nodded her head nervously and pointed her shaky finger at the katana.

"Oh, this." Max looked at the katana with a stumped face. He then said, with a smile, to calm her down. "You don't have to be scared of this thing. This is my weapon to save our lives and grow stronger."

"Really?" Ravenna asked with skepticism.

"Yes," Max pushed the katana before and showed it doing nothing to her. Ravenna's fear started to fade away little by little, and then she was finally able to stand properly again.

After she returned to normal, Max looked at the katana with amazement. 'Just like the name suggests, it brings fear to them already.'

Max fell instantly in love with this katana. Its fully dark body was giving the light a hard time reflecting on it. It had a guard that was round and had a complicated pattern. It had red strings crisscrossing around the black cloth handle, and it was also extremely light weighted. However, the only problem it was causing was its size; it was a bit too big for Max's use. But, Max didn't mind such a small issue, as he just had to wait and grow up.

[ Host, feed a drop of your blood to make it recognize you as its owner. ]

Max did as the system told him, biting on his finger and feeding it a single drop of his blood.

Right as the drop of blood landed on its blade, the blood vanished. The next second, the katana started to vibrate and float up in the air.

Max and Ravenna watched silently as it rotated horizontally in the air. Max started to doubt if it would run away.

And the katana answered his question itself. It aimed at Max's chest and shot straight at him.

"Lord!" Ravenna yelled in shock. But what she was expecting didn't happen; instead, the sword melted in his chest.

Max felt his consciousness was being controlled by someone as he saw a purple pattern being imprinted in his soul, and the next second he felt something being burned into his right arm. He returned from deep inside his consciousness and was able to see a purple colored tattoo had appeared on his right arm.

"What is this?" Max accidentally blurted it out in bewilderment.

"I do not know." Ravenna shook her head, and then she started scratching her head. "But…Lord…it looks like a contract seal."

[ Host, she is almost right. It is a Seal of Bond. Proof that you are its master. ]

Max nodded his head, understanding it. Also, he praised Ravenna. "Ravenna, you are smart. It is indeed a seal."

Ravenna puffed her chest with pride for finally being able to help her lord and to acknowledge her intelligence.

All of a sudden, he felt a bunch of information getting dumped inside his mind. When it finished, Max was able to know many things, as those pieces of information were sent by the katana.

He did something according to the information and called the katana out with his will. The tattoo lit up, and the katana emerged out of his palm. He tried multiple times, and he was able to call back and retract easily.

Holding it in his hand, he raised the katana and said. "I can't bring you out by calling you a sword every time. Let's give you a name. How about I call you Black Sun?"