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<Introduction> Morning Sword is a blessed, semi-immaterial longsword which serves as Grey Crusader's most common weapon. It strikes by creating a magical ethereal copy of itself which flies towards the wielder's opponent. However, the opponent must be less than 20 feet away in order to be cut by the sword's ethereal copy, since its magical energy is depleted very fast and it vanishes if it doesn't encounter a target soon enough.
<Origin> In the interia of the Kingdom of Light an organization was found by the famous Platinum Crusader, known as the Order or Divine Glory. The Order's purpose was to gather and train the most promising warriors of light and turn them to the greatest undead hunters and deamon slayers in the whole world. Since the Order was going to organize and launch whole crusades deep inside the Kingdom of Darkness, as well as the Death Marshes too, a new reliable weapon was needed to be made. So, the Platinum One gave his most skilled blacksmiths a weapon-making job to do.
Fortunately, that new weapon was created not by blacksmiths, but by an mid-age crusader who was also a skilled quanta-user (spellcaster). That person, known as Cornelius, has learnt the art of quanta-using a long time ago, while he served as a Holy Knight under the White King's command, by King's Archmage himself. After retiring from the White King's service, he honorary kept his Holy Knight title even when he joined the Order of Divine Glory.
And here comes where Platinum Crusader was impressed by Cornelius three times in a single minute. During the holy vow of Cornelius in front of Divine Glory's emblem, the Platinum One noticed the masterwork magical blade hanging from the Holy Guard's belt. When he asked Cornelius details about that sword, he was impressed when the Holy Guard replied he was the one who crafted it. When he asked him how a Holy Guard has the skill to craft magical weapons, the Platinum One was impressed once more when he heard that Cornelius was trained in quanta-using techinques by White King's Archmage himself. Finally, when he asked if he could forge more of these melee weapons, he was astonished by Cornelius' reply; that sword was actually rather a ranged weapon than a melee one.
The crafting of multiple copies of these swords was a great success for the Order of the Divine Glory. Now, every Crusader of the Order had a reliable blade in his sheath. That blade was called Morning Sword, as a reference to Morning Stars, which are Divine Glory's weapons of choice, and Cornelius wouldn't have reached the top ranks of the Order without that creation, let alone taking eventually the leadership of the whole organization after the retirement of Platinum Crusader!
<Construction Progress> In order to turn a normal longsword into a Morning Sword, you must first aquire the blade and then hire a cleric or an elemental to perform a ritual. In that ritual, the performer casts Blessing, Parallel Universe and Flying Weapon on the sword and after praying to Divine Glory the ritual is completed and Morning Sword is ready to be used...[/color][/font]