God Ash: Remnants of the fallen.-Chapter 1150: Ore Veins in the Sky (1).

Cain sat cross-legged on a flat rock near the edge of camp, one of the {Stellar Razors} balanced across his palms.

The blade was beautiful in its own alien way.

Roughly thirty inches long, the leaf-shaped profile caught the multicolored light of the Graveyard and threw it back in shimmering waves.

The silver-grey base metal seemed almost ordinary until you noticed the purple undertones that rippled beneath the surface like oil on water.

And running down the center ridge, that green luminescence pulsed with steady rhythm, as if the blade had its own soul.

He turned it slowly, examining every angle. The edge was sharp enough that even looking at it felt dangerous. The balance was nearly perfect, slightly forward-weighted to give it stability with every thrust and stab, but not so much that it would be awkward to slash with.

But it was the weight that really surprised him. Despite being forged from some of the densest materials he’d ever worked with, the finished blade felt almost impossibly balanced.

There was still a bit of weight to it, but it was not incredibly heavy. The Chaos Ether’s strange properties somehow counteracted the mass of the Arcane Steel, creating something that defied normality.

Then again, what was normalcy at this point?

Cain pulled up the blade’s information with a thought.

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{Stellar Razor}

Description: An incredibly sharp, durable and practical blade created in the Graveyard of Stars by a skilled Magic Blacksmith.

{Stellar Razor} (Deadly):

Attack Power: 5000.

Attack Speed: 10.0

Durability: 15,000/15,000.

Skills: Starbeam, Lacerate.

Starbeam: This blade can fire off charged sword energy beams when charged with Ki, Mana, or Aether.

Lacerate: This blade is incredibly sharp and creates wounds that are immensely difficult to heal.

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The Deadly grade. That made sense, considering the materials and the craftsmanship involved. He had not used incredibly complex magic and runes as they would simply put far too much strain on something that was already impossibly difficult to balance.

But what really mattered were those two skills.

Starbeam was straightforward enough. The blade could channel energy and release it as a projectile attack. That would synergize perfectly with what he had planned. And Lacerate... well, that was just a bonus.

Cain allowed himself a moment of pride. He’d created something genuinely impressive here.

Something that would’ve been impossible without access to both Urbus materials and the Chaos Ether of this universe.

But more importantly, he’d created the foundation for something much bigger.

He stood, the blade still in hand, and walked to a clear area away from the tents. A few of his people noticed and gave space to this enigmatic and austere leader of theirs even as whispers floated about.

If course, Cain paid them no mind.

He drew metal-attribute mana from his vault, feeling the familiar weight of that particular element flow through him. Then he channeled it into the {Stellar Razor}.

The blade responded immediately. The purple undertones intensified, and the azure core began to glow brighter. Energy rippled along the edge, creating visible distortions in the air around it.

It rose into the air, swaying gently like a floating leaf.

Cain snapped his fingers suddenly.

The blade shot forward like it had been launched from a ballista. It crossed fifty meters in the blink of an eye, struck a boulder, and punched clean through with a sound like breaking glass. The blade emerged from the other side, still spinning, and embedded itself in the ground another twenty meters beyond.

Cain blinked. That was... significantly more powerful than he’d expected.

He walked over to examine the damage. The boulder had a perfectly circular hole through its center, edges smooth as if they’d been cut by a laser.

The blade itself was undamaged, still gleaming and humming with residual energy.

"Fuck yes," Cain muttered.

He retrieved the blade and returned to his spot, mind already racing through calculations. If one blade could do that much damage, what could a dozen do? What could a hundred do?

Cain chuckled to himself.

It was a rather deviant chuckle.

Yes. This was the real brilliance of his plan crystallized.

{Falling Stars of Orion} was one of his signature spells— a metal-attribute magic art that could create thousands of blade-shaped projectiles from condensed mana and rained them down on enemies from above. It was effective, visually impressive, and had gotten him through plenty of fights.

But it had limitations.

The blades were made of concentrated mana, which meant they were only as strong as his current mana output. Against low to mid-tier enemies, they were devastating. Against high-tier enemies with proper defenses, they were more annoying than threatening. The mana blades would shatter against sufficiently powerful barriers or armor, wasting energy and achieving nothing.

He’d been thinking about this problem for a while now. How to evolve the spell into something that could threaten even Tier 3 opponents.

And then he’d arrived in this universe and found these materials, and suddenly the answer was obvious.

Why create the blades from mana when he could just summon real blades?

The {Stellar Razors} were physical objects with their own innate properties. They didn’t rely on his mana to maintain their form or sharpness. All he needed to do was provide the propulsion and guidance. The blades themselves would handle the actual cutting.

But that created a new problem—storage and retrieval. He couldn’t exactly carry a thousand blades on his person. Even with spatial storage, that would be a nightmare.

Which meant he needed to evolve {Falling Stars of Orion} from a simple offensive spell into something more complex. A magic art that incorporated spatial manipulation alongside the metal-attribute mana shaping.

The basic framework was already there in his mind. He’d store the {Stellar Razors} in a specially configured pocket dimension, similar to the spatial ring system but purpose-built for this specific application. Then, when casting the spell, he’d simply need to access the anchor locally on each one of the blades.

Normally, it would have been much more complicated to control so many at once.

But now, he was more than capable.

And he wouldn’t even need to worry about damage to the blades as simply injecting them with metal attribute mana would be more than enough, at least temporarily.

It was elegant. It was efficient. And it would be absolutely terrifying.