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How to Get Black Sword Rune and Effects

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Black Sword Rune is a type of Rune you can acquire in Suikoden 2 HD Remaster. See information on Black Sword Rune below including how to get Black Sword Rune in the game, its effects and spells, characters who can use Black Sword Rune!

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Black Sword Rune Effects and Info

Black Sword Rune Overview

Black Sword Rune
Type Magic Rune
Rune Group 27 True Runes
Sell Price Potch
Spells
・Lv. 1 Spell: Flash Judgement
Deal 120 DMG to one enemy.
Lv. 2 Spell: Twinkling Blade
Deal 100 DMG to all enemies. 30% chance of casting Instant Death to all enemies.
・Lv. 3 Spell: Piercing One
Deal 700 DMG to one enemy
・Lv. 4 Spell: Hungry Fiend
Deal 1200 DMG to all enemies.

Permanently Attached Rune

Character ・Jowy Atreides (Weapon)

The list of characters above will have this Rune permanently attached to them. Though they will have other rune slots, no other rune can replace the one in the permanently attached slot.

How to Get Black Sword Rune

Recruit Party Members

Recruit ・Jowy Atreides

Some Runes, like the Black Sword Rune cannot be bought from any shop, nor found in any treasure chest in the world, nor dropped by any monster. Instead, there is only way to acquire it.
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List of All Runes and Effects

List of All Runes

List of All Runes
Alert Rune Angry Dragon Rune Balance Rune
Banshee Rune Barrier Rune Black Sword Rune
Blazing Array Blinking Rune Blue Drop Rune
Bright Shield Rune Champion's Rune Chimera Rune
Counter Rune Cyclone Rune Darkness Rune
Double-beat Rune Double-Strike Rune Down Rune
Draining Rune Dryad Rune Earth Rune
Exertion Rune Falcon Rune Fire Breath Rune
Fire Dragon Rune Fire Lizard Rune Fire Rune
Fire Sealing Rune Firefly Rune Flowing Rune
Fortune Rune Friendship Rune Fury Rune
Gadget Rune Gale Rune Godspeed Rune
Gozz Rune Great Hawk Rune Groundhog Rune
Hazy Rune Howling Rune Hunter Rune
Killer Rune Kindness Rune Kite Rune
Knight Rune Lightning Rune Lion Rune
Magic Absorb Rune Mayfly Rune Medicine Rune
Mother Earth Rune Nymph Rune Pale Gate Rune
Phero Rune Pixie Rune Poison Rune
Prosperity Rune Rabid Fang Rune Rage Rune
Resurrection Rune Scorched Earth Shining Wind Rune
Shrike Rune Silence Rune Skunk Rune
Sleep Rune Soul Eater Spark Rune
Spider Slay Rune Storm Fang Sunbeam Rune
Swallow Rune Sylph Rune Technique Rune
Thunder God Thunder Rune Titan Rune
Twin Ring Rune Unicorn Rune Violence Rune
Viper Rune Waking Rune Wall Rune
Warrior Rune Water Dragon Water Rune
White Saint Rune White Tiger Rune Wind Rune
Wizard Rune

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