Unable to approach, how could she seal the Seven Star Sword?
The three altars originally used to activate the gems and seal the Seven Star Sword were also destroyed due to Nox's powerful Haoshoku Haki and the release of the Seven Star Sword's Sword Intent.
Now, all she had left was the method of using witch magic to seal it after getting close to the Seven Star Sword.
But now, she could only stare at the Seven Star Sword before her eyes, unable to get close!
For a full quarter of an hour, Athena struggled intensely here, but she just couldn't get even a step closer to Nox.
And within this quarter of an hour, Nox finally comprehended the Seven Star Sword's Sword Intent and successfully subdued the Seven Star Sword.
Nox's Haoshoku Haki and Sword Intent all retracted, and the Seven Star Sword's eerie green light also receded.
"Seven Star Sword, from now on, you will be Nox's personal sword. In the future, I will become the World's Greatest Swordsman, and you, too, will become the World's number one sword. All swords, including the Supreme Grade Swords Twelve Grades, will have to submit to you!"
Hearing Nox's words, the Seven Star Sword's blade trembled, as if responding to Nox's lofty ambitions.
"You, you..."
Athena looked at the Seven Star Sword in Nox's hand, then looked at Nox, who had no cursed aura on him, but he himself seemed to be the Seven Star Sword.
This feeling left Athena speechless, unable to express it.
"The Seven Star Sword has been subdued by me. It's impossible for you to seal the Seven Star Sword now, unless you can defeat or kill me!"
Nox looked at Athena before him and smiled.
"Impossible, the Seven Star Sword cannot be subdued by anyone!"
Athena shook her head, saying, as a witch, she deeply believed the Seven Star Sword's power was invincible and it couldn't possibly be subdued by anyone.
"You think it's impossible because your perspective is too narrow. You believe the Seven Star Sword will bring disaster to the World and cause countless people to die."
"But you don't know that in this World, there are swords and people much stronger than the Seven Star Sword. With just a thought, they can cause thousands of people to die, creating disasters far more terrifying than the Seven Star Sword!"
"So, if you encounter such a being, would you also try to seal him away?"
Perhaps because he obtained the Seven Star Sword, Nox was in an exceptionally good mood. He also had more patience with this beautiful witch.
"Hand over the gems in your hand to me."
After subduing the Seven Star Sword, Nox could feel that the Seven Star Sword feared the gems on Athena.
Perhaps it was the shadow of being sealed by these gems, but along with the fear, there was also longing. The Seven Star Sword longed to obtain the three gems.
So Nox directly snatched the gems from Athena.
"Those are the gems used to seal the Seven Star Sword, give them back to me!"
Seeing her gems snatched away, Athena nervously tried to get them back.
"Crack!!!"
However, after these three gems reached Nox's hand, they were directly crushed.
"No!!!!"
Watching the gems that sealed the Seven Star Sword shatter before her eyes, Athena was truly in despair at this moment. The hope of sealing the Seven Star Sword was thus extinguished before her!
"Buzz!!!"
Compared to Athena's despair, the Seven Star Sword was incredibly excited at this moment.
Because at the moment the gems shattered, they emitted a rich and pure aura of blood and slaughter. All these auras were swallowed into the Seven Star Sword's blade.
Vaguely, Nox felt the Seven Star Sword had become stronger.
The Seven Star Sword itself became a demonic sword because of slaughter and blood.
In other words, the Seven Star Sword could become increasingly powerful by absorbing more aura of slaughter and blood.
As the Seven Star Sword grew stronger, its Sword Intent also increased. Nox, who had already mastered the Seven Star Sword's Sword Intent, was now even stronger.
But at the same time, perhaps influenced by the Seven Star Sword, Nox's emotions became violent at this moment.
Looking at the pitiful witch Athena before him, Nox forcefully and domineeringly picked her up.
He needed to vent, to vent the violent emotions in his heart. The witch before him was the most suitable candidate.
"No!!!!"
Amidst a scream, a fierce battle officially began.
Experiencing war for the first time, Athena could only endure it with difficulty amidst screams.
After the war ended, both Nox and Athena fell into a deep sleep.
Six hours later, Nox woke up and felt better than ever before!
Having Life Return, he could clearly feel that his body was considerably stronger than before, at least by twenty percent.
Yet, this wasn't the strength of his body itself, but rather a strange force of vital energy and blood surging into his body, making it stronger.
"Huh? Where's the Seven Star Sword?"
However, just as he got up and instinctively reached for his waist, he found a sword was missing.
"This is... the Seven Star Sword?"
When he looked around and couldn't find the Seven Star Sword, he found there was a tattoo on his chest, the pattern of which was exactly the appearance of the Seven Star Sword.
"Could it be that the Seven Star Sword integrated into my body, which is why my physical body has become stronger?"
Nox speculated.
In the original work, Saga, the sword slave controlled by the Seven Star Sword, became so much stronger physically after the Seven Star Sword integrated into his body.
Now that Nox is the master of the Seven Star Sword, the boost it gives him is even greater, which seems to make sense.
Nox felt that with just a thought, he could summon the Seven Star Sword from within his body.
"Seven Star Sword!"
Silently chanting in his heart, the Seven Star Sword suddenly appeared in his right hand. The mysterious pattern on it flickered with an eerie green light, and the entire sword seemed even more powerful than before.
"Although I don't know how powerful the Supreme Grade Swords Twelve Grades are, at least the Seven Star Sword in my hand is considerably stronger than Shiki's Great Grade Swords Twenty-one Grades."
"Furthermore, I have comprehended the Sword Intent inherent in the Seven Star Sword. I am now a Grand Swordmaster possessing two kinds of Sword Intent!"
Nox looked at the Seven Star Sword in his hand with satisfaction.
"What is this?"
When Nox immersed his mind into the Seven Star Sword, he found that seven star-like blood grooves appeared inside the Seven Star Sword.
Among the seven star-like blood grooves, currently only one star-like blood groove is filled with blood, while the other six star-like blood grooves are empty.
"Is this the real reason the Seven Star Sword is called the Seven Star Sword?"
"The seven star-like blood grooves represent the Seven Star Sword's power. Now that one blood groove is filled, it represents one-seventh of the Seven Star Sword's power."
"That means the Seven Star Sword can continue to get stronger by constantly absorbing blood."
"No wonder after the Seven Star Sword controls a sword slave, it makes the sword slave perform blood sacrifices. It's all to absorb more blood power to make itself stronger. This is an instinct for evolution."
"The Seven Star Demonic Sword truly lives up to its name as a demonic sword; it even has this way of getting stronger!"
Only after fully understanding the Seven Star Sword did Nox realize just how powerful this Seven Star Demonic Sword truly was.