Longinous-ignore durabilty

I came down on the massive crow, landing directly between its wings and letting my Aura handle the rest as gravity pulled me through the enormous Grimm. Even as I fell, however, I lifted both of my hands, gathering power into the form of a pair of spears. The one in my right hand burned with scarlet incandescence, while the one on the right seemed like nothing more than a plain and simple lance. I threw the red spear first, an Agniyastra bolstered by the power of Agni, and watched as it caught the Garmr in the shoulder and blew the colossal limb clean off before exploding into a column of fire that flooded forth in every direction, as intense as the flames of Surya. The Garmr released a sound somewhere between a roar, a howl, and a scream as the flames washed over him and left him a quickly thinning figure as matter sloughed off his frame. I watched him calmly for a moment, gauging the damage I’d caused—and then threw the other spear to compare it.

The simple lance looked, at first glance, like nothing more than one of my Magic Missiles, if perhaps a bit longer and a touch thinner. The somewhat golden color that capped its tips was fairly easy to overlook, especially while it was in motion, and it wasn’t anywhere near as visually impressive as my Brahmastra or Agneyastra or even Gungnir. Even its effects were fairly subdued in comparison to its compatriots—it shimmered once in midflight, touched the skull of the massive Grimm, and vanished into its skull. There was no flash of light, no explosion, nothing.

But the Grimm dropped like a puppet with its strings cut.

Longinus (Active) LV1 EXP: 17.96% MP: 80000
A legendary spear said to have been bathed in the blood of a god. Originally nothing more than a simple weapon, it was said to have been exalted by the experience and became something far greater. It is said to have no physical form but to be able to pierce any defense by cutting through the very space its target occupies. Before the edge of the spear of Destiny, all things stand equal; it cuts through whatever is in its path without distinction. Power increases with INT, skill level, and Metal element affinity.
Complete defense penetration.

I landed as the Garmr fell to the ground with an earth shaking thud, rolling my wrist. As I’d expected, Longinus seemed like a fairly troublesome weapon to use. While it’s rather exorbitant cost was mitigated somewhat by my other skills, it was fairly expensive for what it did—which was base damage. Granted, it was base damage that utterly ignored the opponent’s defenses and natural durability, but still; compared to the damage of Agneyastra or any of my other, far cheaper attacks, it had done a fairly minor amount of damage.