NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 1128: Many Amazing Inventions
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Horshen took out a knife and cut through the palm of his left hand, then, from the Domain, white flames covered his wound instantly, slowly healing it back to normal.
"Healing Flames?!" the King wondered.
"Hahaha! Impressive, isn't it? We are not even done yet!"
Horshen then showcased other abilities of his "Domain Artifact" as he called it. The shape of the ox was just deceiving, to make it look like it was just a decorative item.
"So it can protect, attack, and heal, and it is a domain too," the Queen nodded. "Okay, that's incredible… well done Horshen."
"It is certainly unique and as amazing as the previous one… this is hard to decide!" said the King.
"Hahah, well, let's go back- Ugh?!"
As Horshen turned off the artifact, he was quickly surrounded by soldiers and spears…
"Stay right there!"
"Did you attempt to kidnap the rulers?!"
"You'll meet a swift end, dwarf!"
"Eh?! Calm the fuck down! I didn't do anything!" Horshen groaned, about to smash their heads with his hammer.
"Enough," said the Queen. "There was no kidnaping. Did you think we would just get kidnaped? If I wanted I would have destroyed this domain within seconds. Stand back, Horshen merely showed us his amazing artifact."
After they let Horshen alone, the king and the queen quickly called the third participant, Melisa.
Everyone was glaring at her with side eyes, after everything she had done, it wasn't surprising they harbored some hate against her.
They didn't know her circumstances, so for them, it seemed as if she was just an asshole, instead of a girl that was being forced into this.
And she couldn't blame them for hating her, she found it logical.
She simply decided to still participate.
"H-here… this is what I made," she sighed, showing the two rulers who looked at her with rather sharp eyes.
She placed something over the table, an urn of sorts, of purple color, emanating a black aura.
"Is this another of your cursed relics?" the Queen wondered.
"Well, yes, it's the only thing I can do with my… situation," Melisa said. "But Curses aren't inherently bad. And I'll show you. This Urn is not exactly for fighting, but it is a multi-use machine!"
"Machine?" the King asked.
"Yes, it can clean, heal, purify the air, and even unseal, uncurse, and absorb all evil things," she said. "It is a special artifact I made by reversing curses themselves and inverse their effects. It can eat curses and also turn them into fuel for it to work even better."
"Interesting, can we see it working?" the Queen asked. "It could be quite revolutionary."
"Yes, here I have several evil cursed objects… Can I place them in the table?" wondered Melisa.
"Yes, you can," said the Queen.
Melisa just did that, placing several weapons that were cursed, and a cursed necklace.
Unlike her cursed items that were often times working properly and didn't harm the wearer, these did, and the rulers dared not to touch them.
"Now… Urn of Curses, eat and clean the curses and everything you can find!"
The urn opened its crimson eye, a glint of red light emerged from it, as a suction force absorbed the curses within the items, and even cleansed the surroundings.
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Once it finished its job, the curses of the items were completely gone! And now the items remained normal too, emanating auras of their original powers, purified.
"Why do I feel so much better now? I am all clean!" the King said.
"I felt tired beforehand but that's gone as well?" the Queen asked.
"Yes, the urn also drains exhaustion and tiredness," said Melisa. "It can drain most negative things… You see, people usually accumulated Negative Energy inside of them without noticing, this drains it!"
"I-Impressive… this is very useful," said the Queen. "Maybe we underestimated you, young Melisa."
"Yeah, this was well done… Very well done, if we could have these everywhere, it could revolutionize everything," said the King. "Do you think you could produce more?"
"E-Eh? Well, if you give me the ingredients… Yes I can," she nodded.
The king and the queen looked at one another, nodding.
"As long as you promise to behave, we will contact you after the competition," said the Queen.
"Yes, as she said," the King agreed.
"O-Of course! Gladly!" Melisa nodded happily.
As the rulers nodded, then, the next participant stepped in, the blonde brownie girl, Goldanaba.
Planta smiled as she saw all the participants incredible creations, she couldn't help but feel inspired, they had truly placed everything that encompassed them as artists into these things.
Their feelings, even their dreams, and their powers too.
And she even finally learned Melisa's true nature, of a girl that just wanted to improve the world, even if it was inside what she thought was just a video game.
She might be chained to just using curses now, and that everything she touches becomes cursed… But that doesn't mean she can't use it for good.
"Melisa surprised me there… She made something truly interesting," Ambil said. "Hmm, has that brat turned into a new leaf now?"
"Kinda, yeah," said Planta with a giggle. "She's a good girl, actually… She just was unfortunate enough to meet some terrible people, that's all."
"Hmm…" Mark nodded. "Well, I'm glad things turned out well, she made something really useful! Imagine if we could bring that IRL… We could keep streets clean from the Hollows, wouldn't it revolutionize safety?"
"Yes, it could…" Planta nodded. "We definitely need to secure some of them and try to bring them IRL… But I don't know if I could bring them with my Inventory the grade of quality seems incredibly high."
"Maybe if she could divide it into parts of lower quality we could assemble back home…" Mark said. "Perhaps?"
"Oh! Not a bad idea, yeah…" Planta nodded. "For now, let's watch what Goldanaba has to offer, look at that thing! It's huge!"
The brownie presented to the judges her beautiful creation, and it was…
A throne made of gold and decorated with hundreds of shiny jewels!
"This is my gift to her majesty, the queen!" said Goldanaba. "Someone as beautiful, graceful, and mighty as you, only deserves the shiniest of thrones!"
She was flirting with the Queen…
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