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"That's really quite a gamble," Kalalin said with a light laugh, shaking his head at Lancelot, "but Bruto's beard is safe, for that sword is not just a powerful magic weapon; it is also the transformed God of Thieves, Mask, although Shrek himself doesn't know this."
"Transformed by a god?" Lancelot looked at the Starlight Strike with a curious expression, "Why would a god do such a thing?"
"I really am just a sword," Starlight Strike, sensing Lancelot's gaze, immediately protested loudly, "otherwise, why would I have been buried underground for so many years..."
"The death of the Goddess of Magic shocked all the gods, making them realize how vulnerable they and their kind were during this period," continued Kalalin. "Naturally, some gods wanted to quickly find the Tablets of Fate to end it all, while others thought about how to benefit from the crisis, and Mask was clearly among the latter."
