Awat had told Yale that no one needed more than twenty-four hours to awaken, but Yale had already been waiting for three whole days, and the spirt hadn't finished materializing.
Even the chief was surprised by that and examined Lar carefully, but there wasn't anything wrong with her, she was just extremely slow, which he supposed that wasn't something bad.
Three days wasn't a long time for Yale, so he didn't mind, but Jika and Dan were starting to be impatient since Yale wasn't spending time with them.
Although they were tired of hearing Yale's past stories, they were still too attached to him, so they wanted his attention.
Especially Jika, who didn't even try to hide her intentions, but Yale forbid her from entering the room no matter how she pleaded.
Yale could speak with them with his divine sense at any moment, but they could only speak in front of Yale's door. Of course, Yale could hear them perfectly, so he ended up isolating the sound from the outside.
Lar's matter was of an utmost priority for Yale, so he didn't want to get distracted, although, in theory, it wouldn't matter.
Almost at the end of the third day, Lar finally finished materializing, and slowly opened her eyes.
She looked absentminded for a while before she finally opened her mouth.
"Master…"
She only knew that Yale was her owner and the one who created her, so she didn't need anyone to tell her about her relationship with Yale.
Of course, as the chief said, she didn't know anything about her life as a human.
"I am glad you have finally awakened, Lar."
Yale patted Lar's head which made her smile.
Lar was physically and mentally a child after having awakened as a Sword Spirit. Moreover, for her, Yale was everything, her entire world, so Yale didn't mind spoiling her a bit.
The chief and Awat seemed to approve Yale behavior with Lar.
There were just a few weapon spirits like them, so they all felt like a big family, which made that Lar was like their descendant.
Lar fell asleep just after that because although she looked like if she had about six years old, her mind had just been born.
That was normal when a weapon spirit awakened, a moment of interaction with the owner followed by the weapon spirit falling asleep.
Following the instructions of Awat and the chief, Yale carried Lar on his back.
Yale needed to do it until Lar changed back to her sword form. After that, she needed to transform again, and at that point, she would be able to switch forms at will.
The sleeping time would end after Lar turned into her weapon form again, but for a weapon Sprit being in weapon form wasn't that strange since it was their real form.
It was just that ownerless weapon spirits didn't find it practical and they didn't want to be used by anyone who wasn't their deceased masters.
Fortunately, weapon spirits had their human forms made of dense energy capable of turning physical, so they always generated clothes unless they don't want them, or it would be a problem each time they switched between their forms.
After all, not all knew how to control space to store clothes, and they couldn't carry items in their weapon forms.
The first form that was taken by any weapon spirit usually was also dressed because despite being always in a child form, the looks of the newly awakened weapon spirits were related to their past experiences and how they master imagine them.
Lar looked like a child form of the Lar that Yale knew because it was in Lar's past while it was also the image that Yale had of her.
Of course, there wasn't a weapon spirit with gender, but some of them looked more like males or females depending on how they identified themselves while others were difficult to tell. However, no one had the capability to reproduce themselves since they were weapons.
Weapon Spirits would grow with the time and experiences, but there weren't any standards, some grew at a faster rate than humans, while others were far slower than beasts.
Anyway, Yale didn't mind how Lar looked as long as she was happy. The original Lar was frustrated by her looks after reincarnation, but the weapon spirit Lar didn't show any trace of being uncomfortable since that was the only human form she ever had.
Although Yale looked like carrying a child on his back, that was just carrying a sword like he did a lot of times in the past, it was just a matter of perspective.
Once Yale opened the door, Jika jumped towards him, but then she stopped after seeing Lar on Yale's back.
Jika didn't know about the truth of the members of the tribe since she was never interested in it, so she felt that her father had adopted another daughter because she wasn't good enough.
"Dad, please, don't abandon me. I will be a good girl. I promise. I will train hard, and I won't complain if you want to speak about the past."
Yale never had any intention to abandon Jika and Dan, so it was all just in Jika's wild imagination.
"I am not going to abandon you."
Jika had a hidden trauma with her family betraying her even though she didn't remember it, so she was especially sensible with that topic, and Yale knew about it.
However, he didn't think that carrying Lar on his back would trigger that trauma.
"But you never carry me like that girl."
Jika was already relieved that Yale wasn't going to abandon her, but then she was jealous of Lar.
"I can't carry you like her in wolf form, so you just need to learn how to transform."
Yale felt that it would be a good motivation for Jika.
He had carried Jika and Dan on his arms, but neither of them had been allowed to rest on any other place. Especially, Yale's head was Wyba's place, and Yale wouldn't allow any other wolf to take it.
Jika was indeed motivated after hearing that. As for Dan, he didn't seem to mind, but Yale always felt that Dan feared to outshine Jika and was restricting himself unconsciously.
After two hours of walking with Lar for the Tribe, she turned back to her sword form and woke up.
"Good morning, master."
Lar's voice sounded on Yale's mind. She wasn't able to speak normally in her sword form, but she was linked with Yale, so she could speak with him mentally.
Lar was a seventh level immortal, so she could use divine sense, it was just that she didn't know how to use it despite having the capability to do it, so she could only communicate with Yale.
"Good morning, Lar. Do you want to do something?"
The reply was instantaneous.
"Use me in a battle!"
What she wished more than anything else was that her master used her to battle.
She had the feeling that it was what she would enjoy the most in the world, and instinct of a weapon spirit, which was particularly strong in sword spirits that were known for being very eager to battle.
Yale didn't dislike having a battle so he went to ask Awat if there was someone who could battle with him since Lar asked for it, but Yale didn't expect that Awat himself would be his opponent.
Awat might be a weapon spirit, but he was the extremely rare versatile type that could transform to any weapon, and he was also the second strongest in the whole tribe. Even among ninth level immortals in other parts of the world, he was considered among the strongest.
"Don't worry, this is just a spar, I won't get serious. Just give your all, and I will match it."
Although Yale felt that after his breakthrough to eighth level immortal, he could face a ninth level immortal, that only applied for a normal one. He believed that Awat could beat a thousand of those alone, so he sighed in relief when hearing that Awat wouldn't be battling seriously or otherwise, the battle wouldn't even last a second.
"I will oversee this battle. If Awat gets too excited, I will stop it."
It didn't matter if it was just a spar, the chief couldn't ignore a battle that involved Awat because it could easily lead to disaster if he got excited and lost his control.
Maybe Yale would survive, but the tribe could be easily destroyed.
The tribe wasn't too big, so virtually everyone went to see the battle since it was a rare chance to see Awat in battle. Awat was unsocial, but no one doubted of his strength.
After all, Awat had once exterminated a country that wasn't too much weaker than Tofesh's country because they were related to the incident that led to his master's death.
Awat wasn't a name known by a lot of people, but the alias he got that time, the Weapon Demon, was a legend that almost every native of that world had heard at least once.
Kids would cry when their parents told them that the Weapon Demon would come. He was considered almost as scary as Alter Yale was, but Alter Yale's scale of influence was far bigger since it reached multiverse level.
"Sword Spirit Lar wielded by Liye VS Awat, the Weapon Demon, start!"
Once the chief saw that everyone was there to see, he gave start to the battle.
