C212 Acceptance

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Grabbing the hilt of the sword, Tom pulled with all of his strength, but that didn't seem to be needed.

The second he used any sort of force to pull Excalibur, it slipped out of the golden pedestal with relative ease.

With the sword in hand, Tom stared dumbly at it with a stunned expression.

"That was easy..." Tom muttered shockingly. 'Did it not accept me before because my memories were missing?'

As he held the sword, Tom felt an energy from within it enter his body, empowering him.

'Congratulations, Master.' Arthur says into Tom's mind. 'Would you like me to explain Excalibur's abilities for you?'

'Yes, what can this baby do?' Tom asked as he admired his new sword.

"It worked..." Druella muttered in shock as Tom speaks telepathically with his sword Symbiote.

Listening to Arthur's explanation, Tom learned what his new sword can do.

Excalibur's abilities are:

Potency - The sword has the ability to kill anyone including gods, immortals, and spirits.

Healing - The sword has the ability to heal any and all wounds either spiritually or physically.

Durability - The sword is virtually indestructible.

Invincibility - When armed with the sword, the user becomes undefeatable.

Invulnerability - Excalibur's Scabbard offers invulnerability to its holder, making them incapable of being wounded or receiving injury.

Magic Detection - Excalibur can imbue its user with the ability to sense magic around them.

Although Tom trusts Arthur's word, he's taking this information with a grain of salt.

Arthur has fought many villains in his time, but he hasn't faced any real threats like Knull or Dormammu.

Tom believes him about the Healing, potency, magic detection, and durability to a certain extent.

The others he's not so sure about.

Invincibility and invulnerability seem far too good to be true.

'I'll have to test her out to see what she can really do.' Tom thought as he looked for Excalibur's scabbard.

There didn't seem to be a single scabbard in sight anywhere near the pedestal.

"Drue, help me find the scabbard to this thing." Tom says as he and his fiancé start searching the hall.

It didn't take them long to find the scabbard on the side of the hall, leaning up against a bookcase.

Picking up the scabbard, Tom turns to Druella.

"Grab one of those swords laying around and cut me." Tom says, holding out his right arm expectantly.

"What!? Why!?" Druella asks as Tom hasn't told her of Excalibur's abilities yet.

"Because the scabbard is said to make its holder invulnerable to any damage. Just try to give me a small cut on the arm. If It doesn't work and I get hurt, my regeneration will kick in and heal me up in no time at all." Tom says and gestures to the pile of weapons for her to choose from.

Reluctantly, Druella fishes out a small dagger from the pile and stepped in front of Toms outstretched arm.

"Ready?" She asks, holding the dagger a few inches away from Tom's skin.

"Yup, go ahead." Tom says and Druella stabs the knife down, scraping down his arm.

Looking at her handy work, Druella and Tom see that his skin wasn't cut or scraped in the slightest.

Glancing at the metal scabbard in his other hand, Tom couldn't help but feel impressed at its power.

"This thing will definitely be useful. I don't think it will be able to protect against any real threats, but we'll have to find out sometime in the future..." Tom says as he can't picture this thing working on Dormammu or anyone else of that caliber.

"Okay, we got past the statue and you have Excalibur. We should probably go and check the other two vaults. I'm sure that your account manager is starting to get impatient by now." Druella voices as Tom sheathes his new sword in its scabbard and straps it to his belt, hanging it on his left hip.

"True, but we need to clear out this vault first. I don't know if the statue will test me every time or not." Tom says as he tries and fails to open a portal in the vault. "I can't open a portal, which means apparition probably won't work either. Unless you want to repeat what happened today for every vault visit, we need to pack all of this up now."

Saying that, Tom tries to apparate out and called any of his elves for help, but both failed horribly.

"Okay... but how are we going to pack up all of this?" Druella says as she motions towards the mountains of gold leading all the way to the ceiling.

"We both have a bottomless bag and our trunks, so we better get started now. We don't want to keep Alluk waiting after all." Tom says as he pulls out a leather pouch, opens it up, and starts levitating rivers of gold coins into its open mouth.

Sighing in annoyance, Druella whips out her bag and wand and does the same. Though, she hasn't master levitation to Toms level so her speed at gathering gold was much slower.

After almost an hour of just gathering gold, the entire hall didn't have a single Galleon remaining. Not even the Sickles and Knut's were spared.

"Good." Tom breathes a sigh of relief as he eyes the other valuables strewn about the vault. "Next, I'll start working on the books while you store the weapons." Taking out his trunk, Tom starts levitating books into it. "Don't bother with the artifacts yet. They could be dangerous so we'll do them last."