Assassin, walking at the forefront, looked at the Demon God Pillars crawling on the walls around her. These Demon God Pillars were not as broad as imagined; instead, they were more like vines. However, paired with those gem-like eyes, they were somewhat terrifying. There was always a feeling that a crisis was deepening and spreading outward. At the same time, such a scene was definitely a nightmare for those with trypophobia. After all, a large number of Demon God Pillars coiled together, with red eyes staring fixedly at one spot—anyone would feel nervous!
Of course, Assassin had also tried using her Noble Phantasm directly on these Demon God Pillars to see if she could transmit the poison directly to the main body of the 72 Demon Gods. Anyway, as a Magus Killer, Kiritsugu did not lack that little bit of magical energy. Compared to King Arthur back then, the magical energy required for Assassin to activate her Noble Phantasm was simply negligible.
However, thanks to the fact that Kiritsugu had quite a lot of magical energy back then, this Magus Killer would have otherwise witnessed the other side of King Arthur consuming power. One wonders how much money the Magus Killer would have had to spend to provide a large amount of food for magical energy recovery.
Returning to the topic, although the Noble Phantasm was successfully activated and simultaneously affected these vine-like Demon God Pillars, the Demon God Pillars that touched the deadly poison withered rapidly like vines losing water. This trend extended all the way towards the interior of this long corridor. However, this situation did not extend all the way to the 72 Demon God Pillars, because this vine-like branch was abandoned directly.
Like a stone embedded with gems smashing onto the ground, this branch of the Demon God Pillar completely lost its vitality. It looked just like a special kind of ore material no matter how you looked at it.
Aslan picked these materials up from the ground. A gleam flashed in his eyes as he looked at these materials, beginning to read and analyze the structure and effects of these existences. The result was that these couldn't be counted as the main body of the Demon God Pillars at all. Instead, they were existences born from the Demon God Pillars using rocks to assimilate their own magical energy while changing the entire underground world on a large scale. Although they shared the same origin as the Demon God Pillars and could be used by the Demon God Pillars as eyes, strictly speaking, they could only be considered subspecies offspring of the Demon God Pillars.
Of course, that bunch of Demon God Pillars would not consider these vine-like existences as their children. However, after losing vitality, these stones had, after all, been thoroughly soaked by the magical energy of the Demon God Pillars, possessing a bit of the Demon God's aura more or less. Although placed in Aslan's own collection, they couldn't be counted as top-tier materials at all, placed in the current world, they were absolutely top-tier raw materials for crafting Mystic Codes.
Even if Aslan didn't plan to use these things to forge weapons, selling these materials would fetch a considerable income. However, according to Marisbury's thoughts, these things should still be properly stored in Chaldea's warehouse, waiting to be forged into new Mystic Codes by Aslan at any time. After all, Aslan was a member of Chaldea in Antarctica. Keep the goodies within the family. At most, he would just pay some price himself.
If it were anyone else, Marisbury certainly wouldn't be so shameless. But how should one put it? Standing before him now, capable of helping Chaldea forge weapons, was that legendary blacksmith. Especially since the weapons and equipment left by this blacksmith in the world were not as many as imagined, but those known were all the cream of the crop. Just the Red-Hilted Sword forged by Aslan on this world line was already praised by many, and that was just a casual work by Aslan.
Recorded in legend, it stated that after forging this weapon in just one night, it became the knightly sword in the hands of the Round Table Knight Galahad. At the same time, there were legends recording the repair of the Golden Sword, making it stronger, and using this precious sword together with King Arthur to eliminate the White Dragon.
As for why more weapons didn't circulate in this world, there were also reasons recorded in the story. This was said by Aslan himself. After all, the weapons forged by Aslan already possessed transformation functions at that time, and the second form of the transformation was firearms. In such an era, as long as one possessed magical energy, one could activate the weapon's second form. When a knight order was equipped with such transforming weapons, they would possess absolute superiority in external expansion at that time.
"If such weapons circulate out, they will only change this world and the process that should have continued. So no matter what, the weapons I forge cannot casually fall into this world. If someone secretly enters the workshop in the forest and steals my weapons, I will definitely hunt them down to the ends of the earth."
These were the words recorded in legend. Of course, compared to Aslan's original words, there were still some changes. That is, how could Aslan's own weapons be casually left in the forging workshop?
However, the reason hadn't changed much. Of course, it was still because Aslan's weapons would change the world situation. In any case, Aslan at that time didn't want to change the course of history on a large scale. After all, Aslan at that time couldn't guarantee which world line he was in. If he were in a world line where Human Order was incinerated, his actions shouldn't be treated as a Singularity and pruned.
The important thing was that the era Aslan was in at that time was the era where the Age of Gods in Britain was about to end. If he intervened casually and changed the predetermined ending of this era, the consequences that appeared at that time were not something Aslan could repair at will. If things went wrong, their world line might be pruned directly. Even with his special bloodline, it would be difficult to survive. Not everyone has Musashi-chan's drifting constitution.
It would be a pity not to utilize such a good tool-man worker. As someone who was frequently in fiscal deficit, how could he not make good use of every resource? Poor Marisbury, he had now become someone who would lick the yogurt lid clean. Of course, this side was rarely seen by anyone; even Marisbury's daughter didn't know.
In short, after seeing these materials, Aslan took out a new weapon from his Mystic Code, a short knife with an instant-death attribute. Then, he pierced the blade directly into the bodies of these Demon God Pillar vines, turning them all into materials.
Since the damn Demon God Pillars made me take action, I naturally have to exploit a batch of rewards from them properly.