Adrian took a careful look around the bedroom he had been assigned and felt a small smile emerge as he noticed a number of potentially useful items. The items were normal ones, like a number of candles, some incense sticks, some sort of odd magical lights, a number of different fabrics and some furniture but those things along with the objects he had in his pockets from his homeworld would be what he needed tonight for the testing.

Adrian knew that in this world the only asset he had that could not be easily turned against him was the Legendary Holy Sword, he did want to learn magic but that would require help, in contrast, the Sword was something that he could use right away, and all it needed was to absorb some material and level up, something that no one was likely to stop him from doing.

Truly he was grateful that the Sword prevented people from enslaving him with a cursed seal, it was the number one thing he was most grateful about, otherwise he doubted that these people would hesitate to bind and enslave him so that he did their bidding, no doubt an obedient pet would be preferable to a free hero.

Adrian shook his head slightly as he walked towards the unlit candles, now was not the time for such contemplation, he needed to test out his Holy Sword to check if it functioned as the Legendary Weapons did in the Light Novel, the knowledge he had of the LN was one of his only advantages in this world, he could not afford to wait to test if that knowledge was accurate, until now all signs pointed to the fact that save for himself everything was the same but who knew how many differences there truly were.

So he broke the candles in half and pulled out the wick, then he took some of the wax and offered it to the gem embedded in his Sword. For a moment, nothing happened, and Adrian felt despair seep through, if the Sword could not even perform a basic absorption then his knowledge was completely invalid, but then the wax began to glow and he felt his Sword react, in an instant the wax vanished and in the corner of his vision he saw a notification.

Wax Absorbed.
Conditions Met: Wax Sword Unlocked.

Adrian felt like laughing, only the certainty that people were no doubt spying on him stopped him from doing so. He quickly opened up his status menu fully and focused on the weapon tree. Instantly the massive three-dimensional structure filled his vision and Adrian focused on the flashing icon indicating the newly unlocked sword.

The weapon tree seemed to fade from view and a new screen opened up in front of his, it held the details of the Wax Sword.

Wax Sword (unmastered)(0/10) : Lv 1 0.00% +0
Energy Level 0/100
Rarity: Very Common
Enchantments: None
Status Enchantments: None

Equip Boosts : Attack +1
Equip Skills: Moulding 1
Special Ability: None

A moment of focus on each term in the help menu clarified things, everything was as the norm in the light novel. The level indicated the amount that had been boosted by using the energy gauge, the energy gauge filled up the more the weapon was kept active. Adrian could also boost the weapon using items as shown by the enchantment section and the (0/10) and the +1, though it seemed to need different types of items for each system.

Adrian had no monster parts so he could not test out the status enchantments but the fact that he had the option was incredibly reassuring. Adrian thought for a moment while focusing on the screen and moved the gem of the sword near all the wax pieces, it slowly absorbed all of it and then gave a notification.

Wax Absorbed.

He focused on this Wax that was available in the items menu and then tried to think about the Wax Sword…...it took a moment but the option popped up, he allowed the assimilation to occur and then noted the Wax sword again.

Wax Sword (unmastered)(1/10) : Lv 1 0.00% +1
Energy Level 5/100
Rarity: Very Common
Enchantments: None
Status Enchantments: None

Equip Boosts : Attack +2;Speed +1
Equip Skills: Moulding 1
Special Ability: None

The change caught him off guard a little. He had expected a small result but this was quite impressive, the stat boost of the attack and speed had gone up by one. The amount of wax was quite large compared to the original amount but it seemed that simply absorbing more of given materials was enough to upgrade something.

Adrian quickly shattered a few more candles and then offered the wax to the sword. A moment of manipulating his menus and then he saw the results.

It was honestly stunning.

Wax Sword (Mastered) (3/10) : Lv 1 0.00% +2
Energy Level 28/100
Rarity: Common
Enchantments: None
Status Enchantments: None

Equip Boosts : Attack +3; Speed +2
Equip Skills: Moulding 2
Special Ability: None

Conditions Met: Wax Sword II Unlocked (Level Locked. Required Level: 4)

5 candles worth of wax was enough to both provide a new Sword as well as upgrade the old one. The only problem, the level requirement for the Wax Sword II was high enough that he couldn't even open it up. Level 4 was a trivial thing however, what mattered was this, Adrian had a method to almost casually master weapons as well as gain stat boosts. Certainly, +3 attack and +2 speed was nothing game-breaking but imagine a hundred swords with even just a +1 in attack, that was more than enough to multiply his current attack by 20!

Considering that he could unlock new swords quite casually, this was an amazing method, combined with status enchantments, and the boosts from levelling, it was quite likely that stats would not be a problem as long as he could keep on unlocking and upgrading new swords. That was one less thing to worry about. But the problem was skills. Adrian had no way to know if a given sword would provide him with good skill, his only chance was to just keep trying, and such a random method was honestly irritating, he needed a more secure and accurate method than trial and error. Unfortunately, he saw no such method, all he could do was try and see if there was a pattern in which swords gave him skills once he had a decent collection of them.

He let out a sigh and then headed towards the bed, he sat down on the surface after removing all the accessories he had carried with him all day, nothing much, just his wallet, keys, and his phones.

Adrian took a long look at them. They were all reminders of so many events. He could see the small tear in his wallet which his sister had inflicted trying such a cool design on it and failed, he could see a small crack on his older phone when his brother had dropped it while playing a game, Adrian could remember how scared Ethan had been, the child had tried to hide the phone from him. At that time he had been frustrated and a little angry, but now, further away from them than ever before all he felt was despair. He had no idea what was going on there, was time effectively frozen? Did time pass faster there, or would he be able to return home with them not even realizing it? Or would they find him gone and try to find him only to fail because he was in another bloody dimension!

Adrian's despair gave in to rage, it was a slow-burning one, he had felt scared and worried from the moment he had realized what had occurred, he had tried to focus on his next task, on his survival, on the story he had read so that he could keep thinking. But looking at these objects, at just how alien they were to this world it reminded him again that these bastards had kidnapped him just to throw him at a horde of monsters and then the fucking summoner had the gall to look guilty when telling him that they didn't have a way to send him back.

He was going to make them suffer. Maybe he would throw them into an arena with some monsters, then if they won, put them in a cage and then make fight another, and keep this up until they die. Would the bloody King regret summoning them if he did this to the man and his family? Adrian didn't know but he suspected that he would have fun trying.

Adrian felt like laughing when he realized just how pointless his thoughts were. Right now he was nothing. He had no contacts, limited information from a light novel whose validity he was uncertain off, surrounded by people who would take his head off at the first command and weaker than even a child of this world. Revenge fantasies were worthless, what he needed was power.

He took a long look at the items strewn about in front of him while leaning against the headboard of the bed, his sword still in hand. They were reminders of his past, of his world, of his family but they were better suited to be used to gain power.

He kept one of the phones aside. The newest one, but fed the items to his Sword one by one, keeping his family in mind. He would keep his newer phone intact, it had some pictures of his family if he managed to figure out how to charge it, it would act as motivation. The rest of the objects were worth nothing. He saw a few notifications flared forth in the periphery of his vision.

Condition Met: Currency Sword Unlocked
Condition Met: Currency Storage Sword Unlocked
Condition Met: Leather Sword Unlocked
Condition Met: Communication Sword Unlocked
Condition Met: Key Sword Unlocked
Condition Met: Ring Sword Unlocked
Condition Met: Silicon Sword Unlocked...

There were more than a dozen, most from the components of the phone but some from the bills and coins he had put in. Then he got off his bed and roamed around his room, absorbing various materials from the objects around him, a whole candle, some thread from the curtains, feathers from the pillows and fragments of the mattress, and even three types of wood that he scraped off using his sword from the furniture. He even took a bit of the wall.

It was rude and probably something that his observers found odd but frankly, he didn't care. Eccentricity was hard to model and he had no reason to bother with their opinion unless it would cause him trouble.

Right now what he needed was strength. He needed power or he would never be free of these bastards and he would never get back home. And as he saw his periphery fill up with notifications of more swords being unlocked, he felt a cold satisfaction rise up, he would not stay under the thumb of these fools for long.