Throughout history, only Alfredo and the successive masters of Swordhaven Keep had the qualifications and knowledge to enter this place.

He searched the lakebed again and again, his anger boiling while his heart sank like a stone. The divine sword was truly gone, and he could not even wrap his head around it.

Who on earth had the ability to pull out Godslayer? Unless it was a martial god-level expert who came here personally to do it.

Then again, even a martial god might not succeed. After all, Alfredo was now a martial God himself, just one step away from ascension. Yet, every time he had tried to draw the Godslayer, he had been met with violent rejection and chaos.

Through years of careful investigation and research, Alfredo had finally confirmed that pulling out Godslayer did not require absolute martial force. Rather, it required a certain qualification to make the sword spirit recognize a master.

For a time, he had been rejected by the divine sword precisely because he