"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
In the villa's courtyard, the Vampire Girl Sophia swung her greatsword. Her opponents were several little girls whose movements were astonishing, and their coordination pressed the powerful Vampire Girl. Moreover, when the girl's greatsword occasionally struck them, it made a loud clanging sound, as if two pieces of metal were colliding forcefully. These girls didn't seem to be ordinary Demon Race members as they appeared.
"Little Sophia seems in a very bad mood today. Has something happened to her recently?" The Demon King, who looked just like an ordinary girl, was drinking tea in the garden behind.
Sitting across from her was Sophia's master, who was also the Legion Commander of the Tenth Legion. She was a woman dressed entirely in white, with the only exception being her multi-pupiled eyes of different colors. Although this woman was exceptionally beautiful, people often inadvertently overlooked her presence.
That was a quite high-level 'Stealth' skill.
Without a doubt, this woman was extremely dangerous.
One couldn't feel her presence at all, but it was precisely because she was completely undetectable that she seemed so dangerous.
Demon Lords Army, Tenth Legion Commander, White.
She was a quite mysterious existence even within the Demon Lords Army. Furthermore, the Tenth Legion she was responsible for handled tasks like intelligence, assassination, and spying, making her the most feared existence among the Demon Race's cadres.
White looked expressionlessly at Sophia, who was practicing combat against the doll girls. With Sophia's current strength, she shouldn't have been struggling so much, but her current state was clearly off. Rather than training, it looked more like she was venting her unhappiness. Combined with the description in Sophia's previous report, it was clear that this recent incident had quite a significant impact on her.
She had thought she was a genius, and that aside from a few people she couldn't beat, no one in this world was her match. She considered most of the other Reincarnators to be trash and was used to acting overbearingly at school. In the Legion, no one but herself could restrain this arrogant Vampire. Then, under these circumstances, she suddenly encountered a formidable rival and ended up fleeing back with her tail between her legs under the opponent's magic.
For Sophia, whose tail had been held high lately, this was a heavy blow. It was hard on those children who had to be dragged into training with her recently, though given their temperament and physical endurance, this might just be a good game for them. Besides, they had been training like this for a long time; Sophia had been dragging the dolls into training since they were little, back when Sophia would always get beaten into a pulp.
"She lost to Tsukasa," White explained simply.
"I see... Wait a second, you're saying Little Sophia lost?!"
The Demon Lord didn't care at first, but once she reacted, her face was full of shock. Even she believed it was an incredible thing for Little Sophia to be defeated by a human Reincarnator.
White did not answer.
Because it was the truth.
Although she was a bit surprised at first, when she thought about the resilience and adaptability Tsukasa showed during her training period, and that special skill tree Tsukasa possessed, growing to this level in two years was unexpected but not something to make a fuss about. After all, the power within Tsukasa was something even an existence like the Evil God D cared about; it would be weirder if she weren't stronger than Sophia.
"Then what do you plan to do? Although I don't know how that girl named Tsukasa did it, she indeed obtained a Ruler title even after Mela became a Ruler. Even the Key symbolizing authority is now with her. If you want to obtain the Key symbolizing Patience, you'll have to go find her."
The Demon Lord felt things were getting a bit tricky.
Little Sophia was a disciple trained by both her and White. The current Little Sophia could be ranked among the Demon Lords of past generations. Theoretically, it was impossible for anyone other than the Hero to be Little Sophia's match.
That Reincarnator named Tsukasa.
She was clearly a bug in the system.
She might even have the same potential as White.
After all, it had only been two years since that girl officially started cultivating. As a human, she surpassed Sophia in two years and was catching up to the White of back then. If she also had a fortuitous encounter like White's, wouldn't it be possible for her to become a god in a short time? If such a person became their enemy... The Demon Lord's expression grew serious, and the aura emanating from her became heavy. White looked over somewhat blankly, not understanding what the Demon Lord was worried about.
According to the intelligence she had gathered.
Tsukasa was clearly not standing on the opposite side of them now. Moreover, Tsukasa had successfully rescued the teacher and was planning to deal with that filth Potimas, which was completely aligned with their interests. As for the system matters, when the time came, she would just go to Tsukasa's door and ask to borrow the Ruler Key; surely Tsukasa wouldn't refuse?
The Demon Lord suddenly stared at White's face and started laughing. The serious aura from before vanished at some point. With an 'I'll leave it all to you' expression, she said, "It looks like you aren't worried; you must have prepared already. After all, you were the first to contact her. But to avoid misunderstanding, I'll ask you anyway: is she our ally? Could it be she's actually already a member of your legion?"
"...?"
White didn't know where the Demon Lord got that conclusion from. Was it because of the attention and protection she had given Tsukasa over the past two years? However, she couldn't explain her reasons. Although she trusted the Demon Lord and considered her her closest friend, this matter involved the Evil God D, so she didn't intend to be frank.
Because White hid her current feelings, even the Demon Lord, who was very familiar with her, couldn't see White's true intentions at this moment. However, she did see one thing: White valued that Reincarnator very much. In that case, she would temporarily treat that Reincarnator as one of their own.
However, she now kind of wanted to
meet that Reincarnator, because she was simply too curious. Not only were even the legendary Fairy Race following her, but her progress was also so fast, and even White paid so much attention to her. If she didn't know the girl's reincarnation skill was Golden Rule, she would have thought the girl was the Hero's brother, possessing an all-around cheating skill like the Blessing of Heaven.
"Arghhh, damn it! Don't let me run into you again!!!"
Sophia shouted under the setting sun.
Her meaning wasn't the 'I'll show you next time we meet' kind, but literally that she didn't want to run into that mage again. She had racked her brains but couldn't think of how to break that perverted magic. Using the Jealousy skill to seal it directly was a good way, but Jealousy could only seal one skill at a time. Using it to seal a single magic spell felt like too much of a loss. Besides, the opponent was also a Ruler; Jealousy should be used to seal the opponent's Ruler skills.
After all, that Patience skill was practically like an undying cockroach.
And the opponent might have more than just that one move.
In short, Sophia really didn't want to see that person again, because she felt she truly might be killed.
[Author's Note on Going Premium]
The book has reached this stage. Rather, it's only going premium now; the speed has been slow enough. Although I did it on purpose, originally planning to delay it to see if favorites would increase a bit more, the final result was quite cruel.
Currently, the favorites for this book are only 3,200.
I don't know how many readers are still following.
Lately, I feel like my writing isn't going smoothly.
I haven't finished revising the earlier chapters either.
Without adjusting my schedule, I don't even have the mood to type.
Next, the previous chapters still need to be revised, but it won't affect the subsequent story because the plot is already determined. What needs changing are some small details. For example, some settings weren't written out earlier, leading to a poor reading experience, and I indeed got confused about the Ruler skill settings at first.
Because I had only read the novel at first, and the novel translation was wrong, and I don't hang out on Tieba or have setting-buff friends, I used that part of the incorrect settings.
For example, Wrath. In the novel, Yugu obtained the Rage skill, which is the lower-tier skill of Wrath, but the translation wrote it as Wrath. Also, Sophia's skills were mistranslated at first, leading me to once confusedly believe that Ruler skills had levels. It was only after seeing your comments and going to places like Baidu Tieba that I found out those parts were translation errors.
Fortunately, my original setting was obtaining skills through cheats, so this error doesn't have a big impact on the overall plot. Otherwise, I could have announced I was dropping the series then.
Then there are also some small details about leveling and skills.
Because I've always been on a deadline lately, the plot is basically glossed over, and many places aren't described in detail. I'll fill them in one by one later (taking time to write slowly).
In short, there should be quite a bit more free content added to the earlier parts later.
As for the update issue, that's hard for me to answer.
It's a very realistic question: can the performance of this book reach the passing line?
Looking at it now, I think it's impossible.
The passing line I set for myself is an average of 500 sales.
If I can reach this passing mark, then resuming updates won't be a problem.
But for now, it feels like the performance of this book along the way has been quite cold.
The reason the synopsis hasn't been changed yet is that I haven't figured out how to change it, so I'm just too lazy to delete it; besides, I also want to see—if it somehow passes, then resuming updates won't be considered bragging.
That's all I have to say.
Finally, regarding how much will be updated today, which you all care about.
Five chapters.
As for the time, it will probably be in the evening; after all, you saw me come back from pulling an all-nighter as a deadline warrior, so when I wake up, I'll only have that little bit of time to type.
Also, I'm not a student.
I'm a corporate slave, at the very bottom, the kind who works themselves to death for a month just to scrape by.
Fortunately, I don't smoke or drink, and I don't go to parties.
My only entertainment expenses are occasionally buying some games, topping up mobile games, and reading novels.
Otherwise, I definitely wouldn't be able to survive.
Uh, I'm not trying to sound pitiful, just stating a fact.
Regarding the ten-thousand-word update, I'll look at the performance then and decide whether to take it down or resume it.
That's it... as for people potentially cursing about the synopsis being deceptive.
Yeah, the cursing is actually justified.
At the time, I just wrote it on a whim during the holidays, plus I couldn't think of how to write a synopsis, so I decided to rely on that to trick people into clicking in (/awkward).
But writing has been really annoying lately.
The font and layout of the writing software make me very uncomfortable, but everyone else uses the same software.
So I feel like it might be because of my computer screen.
Damn.
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