Judge of Destiny

**Judge** is a divine short sword that is owned by Richard Archeron. It is one of Richard's two signature weapons alongside Moonlight.

A divine weapon that absorbed the blood of opponents, it could break armour easily, and its serrated edge could lacerate an enemy’s wounds. The weapon was enchanted for speed, and possessed a divine power that grew its power when attacking the race its user hated most. After it was reinforced it gained the ability to absorb the souls of its victims.

## Klandor's Carnage

It was formerly a dagger that was given to Richard after he sacrificed the beastsoul necklace to the Eternal Dragon. Due to Richard's hatred for the barbarians, and the ability "*Klandor’s Carnage",* it was named *Carnage.*

### **Appearance**

* *Carnage* (*1st form)*
	+ It was a malevolent looking, serrated sword made of bone. it was jet black in color

### **Abilities**

* *Klandor's Carnage* - the weapon had the instincual effect to have greater damage towards those the owner hated the most at the time. In this case, Richard was against Klandor's barbarians, focusing his hate on them made the weapon deadly to all barbarians.

## Angel's Demise

The ability and appearance changed after facing the Uriel of the Sacred Tree Empire in Klandor.

### **Appearance**

* *Carnage (2nd form)*
	+ Its jagged edge has changed to feathery speartips, and the colour became white, giving it a sacred aura. A top-tier offering had been consumed just to turn a sub-legendary weapon into a legendary one. This definitely wasn’t worth it, and he could only hope that the dragon gave Flowsand some extra grace as promised. 6;29

### **Abilities**

Richard was still holding Carnage, but the weapon had turned from black to bright silver. Even the jagged edge had changed to what looked like feathery speartips, giving it a sacred aura. He waved the sword around, “It makes no difference.”

However, it made all the difference to the Sixth Prince. Just looking at the thing he could feel an innate fear as though he was already being cut apart. He had watched Richard battle the barbarians only a day ago, but there had been no such feeling then.

His assumptions weren’t wrong. It wasn’t just the shape; the characteristics of Carnage had changed as well. Richard had refocused his hatred during the past day, and Klandor’s Carnage had thus transformed into Angel’s Demise. 6;61

After becoming a legendary mage and fighting against the angels of the Church of Glory, he had seen the evolved form of Angel's Demise as Judge. The aura of the Judge changed with these accusational words, the blade lengthening to almost two metres as its jagged edge turned from unorderly to regular. A faint black aura started dancing around the blade, an aura from the hells!

Although they were both beings of order, devils were the nemeses of angels. Each side was quite powerful against the other, their attacks amplified to a great degree.

## Judge of Destiny

The name changed after absorbing Friend of Silver’s sword in Faelor, it unlocked the ability "*Judge of Destiny"* and was named *The Judge.*

### **Appearance**

* *Judge (3rd form)*
	+ A jagged long sword.

### **Abilities**

Judge of Destiny was a **marking ability** just like Carnage, but it was far more powerful. Those with the mark would essentially be **rejected by the laws of the world**, greatly dropping their defensive abilities to the point that even dragons would be injured easily. The weapon was tied to his own understanding of laws; the more laws he grasped in a battlefield, the more acclimatized he was, the more powerful the effect.

The sword had grown immensely over the past months since fighting Runai's divine army, the soul force stored on its tip almost ready to burst out the moment he commanded it. That one blow would be the strongest in his life.

At this point, the blade’s power was growing difficult to control. Despite his best attempts, a simple swing tore apart all the souls within ten metres of the strike, eliminating quite a few of his own allies as well. The Judge had long since outstripped Moonlight in terms of damage it could deal, even if the green blade was still able to cut through things more easily.

## Trivia

* When Richard first saw it, it was a normal sized sword floating. it fell and Richard thought it broke. he then saw that the "broken" part was its sheath.
* The sword deals greater damage against the race its owner hates through its abilities. When the hated race ranges, the ability changes as well.

## References

1. ↑ 6;42
2. ↑ 4;106
3. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 72
4. ↑ Book 7 Chapter 130
5. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 23