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The Cauldron is the Azure Grimoire's original form and it's purpose is to gather souls to smelt the sword in its body.

The 13th Prime Field Device, Nu (v-13), was tempered at the bottom of the Kagutsuchi branch office, near the Sheol Gate. The Murakumo Unit, in order to be complete, needed the other grimoire, which Ragna the Bloodedge had. When Ragna and Nu fell into the cauldron and were smelted together, something went wrong and resulted in the Black Beast, a failed experiment, being created. Mu (μ-12) embodied the true Azure Grimoire, and became the perfect Murakumo Unit, Kusnagi.It takes thounsands of souls to create a Murakumo Unit same as a Nox Nytores which explains why the Kagutsuchi NOL branch was competely empty in most stories in calamity trigger because Hazama had sacificed the NOL soilders inside the branch so both Mu-12 and Nu-13 could be smelted, it also explains why there are so many young people in the NOL they are unwittingly used to create Murakumo Unit's and their Nox Nyctores Lux Sanctus: Murakumo.Judging by most ending aside from being able to create the perfect Murakumo Unit the cauldron has the power to send a being into the past by 100 years or more as shown with Nu, Ragna and Jin.