And there I was, standing in front of the most giant statue I had ever witnessed in my years of wandering.A neon glow of enchanted light.

A vertical, constantly shifting Northern Light, only that it was forged to be the shape of a large leaf-like blade. Anagraphs of long-lost runes seem to flow ethereally on the cutlass seemingly wielded once by an ascendant, and the primmest and precise cuts were present on the side of the immutable mithril, running from one dragon to one withered beast, engraved into the carcass of such metal.

A smear of basalt from its tenacious perch has infiltrated its handle, unfathomable gloom clinging to the obsidian stick. It magically grows upwards - defying what I had ever learned about weapons in my life - into the radiant metal and seemed to solidify the neon light, dimming it down into a still blazing baton of aquamarine.

The foilage beside this statue’s throne blurred and reconvened, spraying sunlight down through porous openings; in a second the light converged onto the blade, and in a slow motion it started to hover directly upwards until it was mine to claim.

I haltingly ambled towards it, as the neon faded gradually so I can examine it more carefully. My heart was pumping with a will to no longer delay, and rushed towards it, grabbing its handle ferociously.…And it returned the favor by giving back a far more ferocious cry, a militant clash with my mind as we became -

One.

My eyes now glow a faint roaring azure, as I feel, in the deep valley of my heart, that the basalt of the ground chars my soul, from which was born a stronger one, blazing with the urge of bloodshed.

And the blade… It had a name. As I unlocked the pseudosheath by simply hovering my hand through the teal fragments, I saw it. In the rotating runes that run endlessly, I read these previously foreign lines:

“Wield, shield.

For there is a grander cause

Than for your crystalline heart to yield.

A defiant cry of faith

Named me Atomsplit Katana of late.”

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[Inspired by Atomsplit Katana of Hypixel Skyblock]