This time, the crowbar seemed to have suffered. The tip was no longer as sharp, and the metal at the end looked slightly flattened, slightly curled, like it was getting tired of pretending it could do this forever.
It seemed ready to snap at any moment. Breaking skulls wasn't easy, and the more Kael used it, the more it began bending. It wasn't made for this. It was made to pry, to lever, to crack concrete, not to pierce mana-infused bone.
It was the difference between an item made by the system and a normal human-made weapon.
The latter broke too easily in the face of monsters, something that Earth knew when they tried to kill off the monsters that broke out into the world a couple of decades ago. Kael's mind flashed to stories he'd heard, half-news, half-legend, tanks, missiles, entire squads erased because mana didn't care about steel the way physics said it should. Mana was heavily corrosive to all non-mana-affected items.
