Just as I thought, it was the same as the Maou's set. But what if I feed it a weapon that I am too low a level for? There was one: the versatile sword of the goblin king. I couldn't use it because I was too low level—eleven levels under. But what if I fed it to Weapon? Could I use it then? I gave it a try, feeding the versatile sword of the goblin king to my right hand of the Maou, and it worked. Now, for the moment of truth…
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I held it in my hand; there were no problems whatsoever, meaning that I could use any weapon I wanted, even a level one-hundred weapon. Neither weapon nor armor requirements existed for me anymore. I also fed Weapon my other weapons too: the fang of the prince wolf and the grand wolf claws.
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But what about durability? What would happen if it dropped to zero? I had to test it out, and I did so with the frail stick.
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It didn't break when I swung it against the ground; however, Weapon's health dropped by ten percent, and its durability was reset. "You can revert to the versatile sword of the goblin king now."
Continuing down the tunnel, I emerged into a stope. Everything was covered in slime, just like in the previous stope, and a massive blue slime, the size of a truck, occupied the center.
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It was clear that I was in a dungeon, but I had a decision to make nonetheless: to leave or to kill it. As I was thinking it through, Xanda broke the silence, "Eden has just left her empire. Since you used name and promote just once, and only once, she only knows a rough direction of where you might be. If you don't want her to narrow it down, then don't use them again, nor the dark element. However, that is only part of what you must do. The other part is reputation. You must not build a reputation of the Maou. You will have to build one of a hero. Meaning, that you will do what you did with the dwarves and the slimes but without asking for anything in return. Even then, it still won't be enough. That is why you will become the complete opposite of the Maou, a priest or a paladin. It doesn't really matter which…"
I sighed as I had to give up that S-rank job, which would have allowed me to extract materials from everything and anything that I could then use for various purposes, such as making money, or commissioning craftsmen to create equipment that I could then feed to my Maou's set, strengthening it.
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Ordering it to kill itself or executing it outright was too boring, so I swung Weapon in the shape of the versatile sword of the goblin king at the friendly blue slime king. However, I found that one-shotting or two-shotting was boring too.
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< < < < After feeding the slimy pants to my leggings with skirt of the maou, I went into the drift.
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By the time I reached the mine exit, I gained slightly over eighty thousand experience points, advancing to the ninth level.
< < < < A breathtaking vista opened up before me; it was yet another perfect sight, comparable to the world's seven natural wonders. I was on a cliff, looking down at a sea of complete and utter darkness. There was no sun, no sky, or moon. But in its center, there was light—a city of unimaginable proportions. It was too dark for me to see anything else. As you might have surmised, I was still underground.
I took a torch from the wall at the cave's entrance, and began looking for a way down. There was but a single path. It was narrow but stable, leading me to what looked like a checkpoint.
"Did you come from the mine?" asked the dwarf guarding it.
"Yes, I cleared it," I replied.
"Really?" the dwarf was surprised. "Were there any survivors?"
"No, there weren't," those three dwarves I saved were obviously killed by Weapon, which meant that I lost the favorability I had gained from saving them. More importantly, it meant that the church of Lilith was down to zero followers, which was a good thing and not bad since the situation with Eden...
The dwarf let out a sigh, "That's too bad…"
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