Chapter 29 –– Candordrill

Dear Diary,

Ever since Jude and I found the drill, I kept having the same dream over and over again. I couldn’t really remember what happened in my dream, but I do remember the sensation and feeling that I felt after waking up. I could hear sounds of steel clashing with each other, people screaming in agony, and wildfire everywhere. I also felt deeply saddened every time I woke up from the dream, sometimes even to the point of a tear dripping down my face. I really don’t like the feeling of waking up to that dream, but there was nothing I could do to stop it from happening.

The following day after discovering the drill with Jude, I saw the drill on the table next to my bed right upon waking up. I didn’t realise Jude came to my room just to drop off the drill, how very unusual of her. Usually when she found something interesting, she wouldn’t let anyone touch it until she was done figuring out its whole origin and stuff. There was no way that she could do that in just one night, so I’m pretty sure that she lent it to me for another reason.

Jude and I kept the fact that we found that drill as a secret only the two of us knew. Jude tried to find out what that drill was about in her own way, by matching the clues that she found on the chest and cross-checking it with ancient books for reference. Meanwhile, I tried examining the drill in person to see if I could find anything interesting.

One day, Cleric Virga saw me playing around with the drill past bedtime. She then took the drill away from me and confiscated it. I felt frustrated because I wasn’t able to figure out what that object was before it was taken from me. In the end, I stopped caring because I had a lot of other stuff to think about, such as mining as my daily source of income.

Strangely enough, I always found the drill in very unexpected places. Under my pillow, inside my pocket, on my desk, etc. At first, I thought it was Cleric Virga who put it there. However, she kept accusing me of stealing it from her, so that meant the drill just came to me in some mysterious way. Every time it was taken, it always came back to me. I don’t know how that happened, but it felt like the drill was supposed to be stuck with me forever or something.

After so many tries, Cleric Virga gave up on confiscating the drill and just let me have it. She couldn’t keep up with the drill that had always gone missing one day after she took it from me, just to return to me. She must have felt frustrated and confused as hell as to how that happened. Unfortunately, I don’t have an answer for her. I am just as confused as she is.

Sometime later, Jude finally found some useful information about the drill. She said that it is one of the 7 Lost Weapons that is lost in history, called the Candordrill. It is a weapon made out of the rarest material known in the realm, the gnoxichalc ore. The Candordrill was used by Rodentia the Frank, one of the 7 Founders of the realm. It was used to protect us right from the calamity that happened a thousand years ago. It is said that nobody can wield any of the lost weapons because the weapons choose their wielder, not the other way around. It is unclear how people can get chosen to wield it, so nobody knows the answer.

One day when I was holding the drill, it started to glow in my paw. It emanated some orange light with low frequency vibration on my paw, going bright and dim in turns periodically. I don’t know how to describe it, but the drill felt warm and energizing. It felt like I was charged with some kind of supernatural energy or something. I was mesmerized by it.

Jude then took the drill away from me and tried to try it on herself. However, nothing happened. The drill did not react at all. It didn’t glow like it did in my paw. Jude was disappointed. She thought she could also feel what I felt.

“Oh well, it is what it is,” Jude said while sighing.

She finally accepted that the drill could only react to me, not to her, nor to anyone else. She then returned it to me and told me to keep it dearly. I did as she said, keeping it safe with me until the end of time.

Wait for me,

Marie