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Swordtember Day 02 - Caustic

Added 2021-09-02 01:20:28 +0000 UTC

Sapping Seed

Originally called Iron vines, it is a species of plant endemic to the West Olkatia Mountain It lives in the soil that contains a large amount of iron and mithril. It bizarrely prefers to attach itself to those materials and use its saps to dissolve those metals before absorbing them as sustenance. A druid from Zhamery clan uses selective breeding and magic in order to weaponize it. Although typically it’s used to sabotage enemy army by leaving a lot of the seed with rapid growth enchantment in their armory, they also manage to design a ‘sword’ using a variant of this plant. Sapping Seed by itself is not a sword, but by attaching a metallic weapon on it, it’ll rapidly spread to take over that weapon and produce a highly corrosive layer of sap and gas that could eat through any organic material and metal it touches. But due to its metal-eating nature, the weapon itself will slowly become corroded and crumble after a certain amount of time.

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This is a rather rushed one due to some sudden extra workload I need to finish last night. As you might be able to see later on the PSD, the initial sketch for this sword is an insect that attach itself to a sword, imbued it with corrosive ability. But then I found out that someone already made that very same idea for this year swordtember (and it looks reaaally good!), so I scrambling to find different idea, and come up with this >____<

I personally satisfied with the corroded effect, but I think I could do better with the handle/plant parts.