Nameless Axe

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**Nameless Axe** is one of two weapons created by the **Smith**, along with the Primeval Sword, Altar as a prospective weapon to be used to save the world. It is currently owned by Ray Starling.

## Appearance

Its true appearance is a large white single-bladed, one-handed crystal axe. Because it was not chosen by the Smith, it is currently incomplete and nameless. Due to a part of the axe's handle being broken during Rockfell's battle against Beldrion, a part of its handle was broken and missing even until now.

As a result of the countless users who lost their lives due to the axe's power and The Evil's Troll Kin cursing and covering the axe with a cursed cloth to limit the amount of attributes it can emit into only the physical and dark attribute energy, it appears as a dark red single-bladed axe, with a blade coloured rust-red with blood covered in cursed cloth. Currently, the cursed cloth covering the axe was torn and broken.

## Personality

The axe possess a will and the instinct to be used by a willing user. It is also a prideful weapon as an ancestral weapon, but not bound by hubris. It tries its best to neutrally help its user without breaking the rules of the world.

## History

A long time ago, it was created by the **Smith** along with the Primeval Sword, Altar as one of his two masterpieces that would be used as a prospective weapon to save the world and the strongest weapon in the world. After the **Smith** pondered about it, he chose Altar instead of the axe, not finishing the axe and leaving it unnamed.

The axe was then forgotten as history progresses, with most of its previous users being harmed by the axe's abilities. It was once used by a previous **Knight of Falldown** due to believing its power to be simply a result of a curse and lost his life from it. It was then used by countless wielders afterwards harming and killing its users until the axe was covered by the grudge from all of its previous users, cursing it and dyeing the axe blood-red. Even after the arrival of the Incarnations and the destruction of the pre-ancient civilization, the axe remained as a weapon that cannot be properly wielded and was never recognized as a UBM due to the fact that it lacks a name.

Some time afterwards, the axe was then used by the King of Kings, Rockfell Adraster during the war era 600 years ago. He was stated to have used it in his fight against Beldrion to inflict a massive cut on its head up to its chest, even when it protected itself with its left hand. However, after Rockfell's battle against Beldrion, a part of the axe's handle was broken which resulted in Rockfell deciding to no longer use the axe as a weapon out of aesthetics. The broken fragment of the axe's handle was then eaten by a young dragon, transforming it into the Mythical UBM, **Extinction Dragon King, Drag-Fin**.

After Rockfell's disappearance, the axe remained hidden in the storage room of the castle inside the Industrial Capital. However, after The Evil's appearance and occupation of the Industrial Capital, one of The Evil's Kin used the axe as a weapon. The Troll Kin of the Evil lacked the ability to use the axe on the same level as Rockfell but it still managed to use it due to its high regenerative abilities. It also wrapped the axe in a cursed cloth to limit the attributes it can release to only the physical energy and the dark attribute energy which it has high resistances for. The Troll then used the axe to kill numerous people, causing the axe's curse to grow stronger.

However, the Troll also died during the battle between the King of Sacred and The Evil. At the end of the battle, the axe has accumulated immense amounts of grudges, covering the axe's blade in multiple layers of red-black rust. The axe was then stored by the King of Sacred's wife, Friemel Gideon in her hometown's storage of cursed items. Multiple people, like the Hierophant and the Saint tried purifying the axe's curse but failed. It was then completely forgotten due to the records of The Evil being intentionally erased and was then only known as a simple cursed weapon.

## Plot

Ray Starling went to Gideon's armory for cursed items to collect the rewards he was meant to receive for his part-time job of dispelling the curses on said items. He was meant to receive an item for every 10 cursed items he dispelled, though he initially put it off as he saw nothing that caught his and Nemesis' liking and that most of them cannot be equipped by someone of his level at the time.

The day before the start of the tournament, Ray chose to claim his reward for dispelling 60 cursed items in the armory as said items are decided to be given as supplementary prizes in the Tournament. As he dispelled 60 cursed items, he was meant to take 6 items, 2 of which is something that will be in his possession while the remaining 4 are meant to be given to his clan members, namely Kasumi, Io, Fujinon, and Rook Holmes to strengthen them.

Io quickly chose an item among those, choosing an animal-themed armour, with Rook looking for an equipment specialized for use against the undead. The first one that initially took Ray's attention is the bracelet, Big or Small as Gardranda doesn't wish to let go of it. After learning of its effect, Ray decided it to take it as one of his rewards.

After both Rook and Fujinon chose what they wanted, Ray found the axe and tried to dispel its curse for an hour straight with no success. He felt worried about simply leaving the axe be and noticed that unlike the other cursed items in the vault, its cursed aura does not leak into the surroundings but is instead densely sticking on it. Ray then decided to choose the axe as a grudge power source and because Nemesis feels that it is an extremely powerful weapon, along with the fact that she felt that she had seen or felt a weapon identical with it before.

After Ray decided on renting Gideon's 8th Stadium for their clan base, Shu Starling asked him to show him the axe. After feeling the pressure emitted by the axe, Shu tested it by punching it at full-power without using Baldr. The axe withstood it without receiving any damage making Shu feel both astonished but convinced at the same time. Shu then worried as he noticed that a full-powered attack from him didn't put a scratch on it yet the axe was clearly damaged sometime before. Shu then advised Ray to use it as a shield, worried about the power the axe could release when swung as a weapon.

Evidently, Shu was right to worry about the Axe's power because when Ray first swung it, he lost an arm. The second time he used it was in his duel against Lei Lei where he felt as if his whole body disintegrated because of his lowered resistances. Afterwards, he left to level up a new job, Sorcerer, in hopes that its resistance skills would allow him to better use the axe. At this point, Ray became involved with ZZZ and was transported to his embryo's realm where he first became able to communicate with and properly use the axe without restriction. This is because ZZZ's embryo, Dreamland, did not permit anything without a will to enter, so the grudge and curse cloth that were holding the axe back were temporarily absent. Because of this the axe was able to exert full control over itself and use the light element for attacks, which Ray absorbed the recoil of by using Void of the Black Sky, Monochrome. Later on, Ray was able to talk with the axe again while sleeping in his clan base's duel barrier, where the axe told him about the King of Kings job.

Eventually, when the Second Machine Knight War came about, Ray used the axe again, and this time the cursed cloth binding the axe happened to be destroyed. This allowed Ray to begin competing for control rights for the axe.

## Abilities

As one of the **Smith'**s greatest masterpiece and one of the two prospective weapons to save the world, the axe is one of the most powerful weapons in the world of *Infinite Dendrogram* that surpasses Superior Embryos and Superior Arms. It is extraordinarily tough, being capable of withstanding a full-powered punch from Shu Starling and not receiving any form of damage from a Steel Tear charged with over 100,000 MP which could break even Mythical metal. The only time it was ever damaged since its creation was during Rockfell's battle against Beldrion. Due to its uncontrolled output, it possess the function to identify the biometric information of its current user, and even identify its user's current health.

It can also access the Archetype System and identify Superior Jobs, whether it is currently vacant or already taken, and know the requirements necessary to obtain vacant ones. However, due to the limitation that was imposed on it by the **Smith**, it cannot reveal the conditions for vacant Superior Jobs, though it can still reveal information about non-vacant ones. This function was originally attached to prevent two Special Superior Jobs from obtaining the same one should the axe be the one to be chosen instead of Altar, but because it was incomplete, it still retains said function and stated to be incapable of using it properly.

As a result of the countless grudges attached to the axe, its voice could only be heard if its owner is in an environment where only the mind could act or something similar to ZZZ's Dreamland.

As the **Smith** created the axe to possess the concept of **Absolute Extinction**, it is capable of bringing everything into extinction, from physical objects, energy, and even concepts by offsetting it with either the opposing type of energy (Output) or the same type (Attribute) with far greater power.

* **Select** (選刃セレクト): The blade of the axe can emit energy of all possible attributes, even attributes unknown to Masters or Tians, which allows it to destroy any kind of phenomenon by offsetting it with the same amount of energy. The axe can even combine different attributes together. Even if it does not use the same type of energy, it is possible to destroy objects with pure power. However, the user is also affected by the same type and amount of energy that the blade emits. As such, the axe's maximum possible output of energy that it can theoretically release is at 33% and exceeding those would kill the user despite their resistances. Normally, any type of energy could be chosen, but due to the cursed cloth of the previous The Evil, only physical energy and dark attribute energy can be used. Currently, as a result of the cursed cloth being torn and destroyed, this ability is back to normal.
	+ **Select - Shine** (選刃・光セレクト・シャイン): An active skill that emits light attribute energy from the blade. The amount of energy is enough to cut through Mythical metal and at 10% output, it is capable of completely cutting Cardinal A in half in a single strike.

## Control Rights

In order to prevent the axe from causing unwanted disasters, the **Smith** imposed a function that restricts the axe's output and prevents the choosing of the attribute to be used. This function randomizes the amount of power and the type of attribute that is released by the axe. In order to lift this restriction and have control over the axe's output and attributes, the current user must complete a challenge to acquire a certain percentage of the axe's control rights. It was previously sealed due to the cursed cloth that bound the axe, limiting its freedom.

The axe's control rights are sectioned between Attributes (属性) and Output (出力) with both together holding the same probability usage as the percentage of control rights, and each alone is double the percentage probability usage. If the user possess 0% of the axe's control rights, the axe's output and attributes are completely randomized, and has a huge probability of misfire. Therefore, the minimum amount of control rights required for the user to properly use the axe in combat would be 50%. But if the user can acquire 70% of the control rights, said user can have complete control over the axe's **Select** skill. Beyond 70% the user can gain control over the axe's non-basic functions.

The challenge for the axe's control rights takes place inside a mental world that functions similar to the arena's barriers where the current user must fight and defeat copies of the axe's previous users in single combat and obtain the control rights each copy was assigned. Said copies are only manifested records of the axe's previous users, as such, they function similar to an automatic program which lacks conscious thought and adaptability, repeating the same reaction whenever their opponent repeats their previous action. The control rights was divided for each copy and the assigned control rights for each copy becomes higher, the more control rights they previously held during the time they wielded the axe. Also the probability of a specific copy appearing is proportional to the amount of control rights assigned to said copies. Inside said challenge, the user cannot use either an Embryo or an MVP special reward. The status correction as an equipment given by said Embryo and special rewards are still accessible, however, their skills cannot be used as the challenge forbids the usage of items outside the world's system. This rule also applies to the copies of the axe's previous users. The Job level of each copies is the level when they last held the axe.

## Trivia

* Unlike its sibling creation, Altar, the Nameless Axe has no trouble being stored in inventories. This may be because, unlike Altar, it is not a UBM.