In the past year, two legends have risen among adventurers in Western countries.
The first is a mysterious skills merchant. Not many people know his real name, and his origins are also very mysterious. Those who are lucky enough to meet him only know that he has conquered a flaming dragon as a mount, and often rides the dragon down from the sky, selling
The skills of the purchased adventurers have greatly improved their strength, and there have been dozens of cases of being promoted from D-level and E-level to B-level and A-level.
The other is the brave man who disappeared for decades and returned after reincarnation - Shining Masayuki!
He returned from reincarnation and easily formed a powerful A-level adventure group. Each member is a well-known figure, and his own strength is even more powerful and unpredictable. Many people are impressed by his domineering spirit and believe that he will
Stronger than the legendary Sakaguchi Hinata, the strongest saint in the West.
But Honjo Masayuki himself felt extremely depressed about this, and had no idea how things developed step by step until now.
Just a year ago, he was still a 16-year-old high school student with excellent grades and a rebellious middle school student in his heart. But he just dyed his hair blond and his crimes were not enough to allow him to travel to another world, right?
In short, he was just walking on the road one day when he suddenly saw a beautiful green-haired woman. When he turned his head, he realized that he was here.
He is just an ordinary high school student who knows nothing, not even the language, but unfortunately he gets involved in a hero's rescue of Misato.
From that point on, things got out of hand, because he awakened several or rather strange skills one after another.
Heroic and domineering (the chosen one).
Although this is a unique skill, it is close to the ultimate skill and has extremely superior performance.
Among them is the hero's Haki that can intimidate others with his aura, which can make people super lucky, and the normal attack can also become a fatal blow. Seeing him show off his skills will be inspired to express his admiration, and those who lose to him will be more
The charisma of a hero who will be followed sincerely, and the heroic actions that can make his actions play a leadership role.
To put it simply, it's like a protagonist's halo.
Everything went smoothly for him. 'Crazy Wolf' Xunlei, Bonnie, an outstanding magic graduate from the Kingdom of Ingracia, and Qiu, a high-level elf magic expert, were all impressed by his 'dominance' and became his subordinates one after another, so he
Becoming more and more famous.
By now, Masayuki was almost familiar with this feeling, and at this moment, they heard some exaggerated rumors.
"Have you heard? The location of the legendary skill merchant has been exposed!"
"He lives in the Jura Great Forest, the Jura Tempest Federal State established by that monster. His mount, the flaming dragon he rode, also became the Demon King, and the Demon King Rimuru
The relationship is very good!”
"Really! How could I lie to you?"
"You know the dragon species, right? It is said that one of the dragon species, the Burning Flame Dragon, went to Jula Forest to catch him because he wanted his skills. Unexpectedly, he was defeated and repelled by the skill merchant! It was because of the commotion caused by that battle.
It’s too big, so his location is known to everyone!”
"Really, let's go together. Many adventurers have already gone to him. Maybe we can be lucky enough to buy a skill."
"That's right! I heard that the Monster Kingdom has even transformed the battlefield site between him and the Burning Flame Dragon into an attraction. We can take a ride on something called a cable car and fly over from the sky to see..."
The rumors sounded bizarre, and the words "cable car" intrigued Masayuki.
Are there people from our world over there?
So he and his friends inquired about it, and as soon as they inquired, they found out that something had happened.
Who is he? The famous brave man, the shining Masayuki! Does he need to buy skills from a skill merchant? Of course not!
As a result, rumors spread like wildfire that the hero Masayuki was going to have a showdown with the skill merchant, competing for the title of the strongest human being, and there were even a lot of people who thought he was going to eradicate the Demon King Rimuru along the way.
Tired by his reputation, it seems that Zhengxing can't live without a trip to the Monster Kingdom. Mad Wolf Thunder made a declaration: "Then let's really go and fight! What kind of skill merchants, only the weak will pursue that kind of thing, we don't need it
!”
Bonnie was still calm: "But even the 'Dragon Species' are no match for that businessman. It's better for us to be careful... although I also think that Masayoshi can settle everything by taking action."
Qiu Ze said: "Masaki doesn't need to pursue those false names. The hero is to deal with the devil, not to fight with other human beings. There is no need to fight with some skill merchant, right?"
Masayuki nodded. He had never seen the power of a dragon, but to be honest, he didn't think he, or the three people in front of him, would lose.
Well, he still remembers that he has no real ability, but it seems that due to the influence of his skills, the three of Xunlei are ridiculously strong. He thinks that no matter how strong the person is, they are only at their level.
Maybe it's a little tricky?
In short, there is no need to deliberately seek trouble. Even Demon King Rimuru does not want to take the initiative to provoke.
Before setting off, he made a special trip to the Free Guild Headquarters to ask Yuuki, who was also a visitor from another world, for advice. He asked Yuuki if he knew who the outsiders in the Monster Federation were.
But what puzzled and worried him was that someone from the Free Guild headquarters told him that Commander-in-Chief Yuuki had not shown up for more than two months.
'Yuuki is so powerful. He can build a large family business on his own. He should be fine, right? Forget it, I'll go to the Monster Kingdom for him first.' Thinking like this, I carried a wisp of worry.
With a high-spirited attitude, Honjo Masayuki and three companions rushed to the Monster Federation.
And his relaxed mood like traveling was maintained until he got on the "sightseeing cable car".
Very tall, but height is nothing.
The sightseeing cable car that is maintained by magic is more stable than modern times. Masayuki is also a person who has ridden a Ferris wheel and a roller coaster, so there is no need to be afraid.
But what is this battlefield...?
Looking at it from an altitude of hundreds of meters, there is a scene of disaster for dozens of miles around.
There are cracks in the earth, and the originally towering mountains have been cut off in half, or blown into small earth bags with unique shapes.
The scorching hot lava flows between the cracks, and the bubbling fills the air with terrifying heat. The afterglow of the magic in the atmosphere is far from dissipated, and the strange and depressing energy makes Masayuki's breathing feel uncomfortable!
Is this a battlefield site?
Isn’t it really a natural disaster after a magnitude 9 earthquake and then a volcanic eruption?!
Wait, speaking of dragons, the level classification of the Adventurer's Guild seems to be Special S natural disaster level.
This natural disaster is not an exaggeration, but a fact? Then... what is the skill merchant Ji Xing who can defeat the natural disaster?!
It won’t work, right? Absolutely not, right?
Without the cable car, it would be dangerous for us to even cross the land below, right?!
Masayuki suddenly woke up and wanted to turn around and leave, but the embarrassing thing was that they were in a cable car at high altitude and could not turn back.
"Hmph, that's a bluff. This place was actually hit by some kind of natural disaster, right?" Mad Wolf Xunlei still said plausibly: "Master Masayuki, you don't need to make these false things!"
Hey, please wake up, your Masayuki-sama, that is, me, is the most fake.
Fortunately, Bonnie seems to still have a calm mind: "Whether it is true or not, based on the style of this cable car, it can be determined that there must be people from another world like me in the Monster Kingdom. For the sake of this matter, Masayuki-sama
, can we act a little more low-key?"
Keep a low profile, of course!
Masayuki was almost moved to tears and nodded repeatedly, so half an hour later, they stepped off the cable car and saw the west gate of the town of Rimuru, the capital of Jura Tempest.
A heat wave rolled over, and the noisy streets entering the city appeared in front of the four people.
…
"It's really prosperous."
In the center of the town, in Rimuru's office building, Rimuru, who was in the form of a slime and held in Shion's arms, looked out the window at the extremely prosperous and lively town, and sighed with happiness.
"It is a genius idea to take advantage of the situation and isolate the ruins that cannot be easily restored into scenic spots, and connect the two ends with a magic cable car."
This not only increased the attraction of the Monster Kingdom, but also shocked all visitors with the terrifying scene. The security of the town rose to a big level. The adventurers who came like crazy wanted to buy Ji Xing.
The skilled adventurers also learned to be respectful and did not cause a big mess.
"That's what you said, Rimuru-sama." Shuna on the side said with a sad face: "As for the capital's reception capacity reaching the upper limit, you haven't given a feasible solution yet."
The slime's expression wilted, oh, can't he just pretend to be stupid and avoid it? But Zhuna, what can I do if the reception capacity is not enough? Can I double the size of the town out of thin air?
Those popular attractions before traveling can be booked online, and the maximum number of tourists can be set when selling tickets, but we in the Tempest Federal State can't close the city gates, can we?
The Founding Ceremony is approaching, and the Monster Kingdom has shown an attitude that it does not welcome human adventurers and tourists. No matter how you think about it, there will be big problems.
Due to the Farmus Kingdom incident, Rimuru was once worried that merchants and adventurers would not come to Tempest out of fear, but he never expected that he would have such happy troubles as before.
Ji Xing's attraction is too strong.
Well, ask him to find a solution?
Slime suddenly jumped from Ziyuan's arms to the table and asked, "Is Ji Xing there?"
Zhu Na nodded: "Jixing-sama should be playing with Milim-sama in the underground maze."
"Well, they are really comfortable." Slime assumed the appearance of a girl: "Let's go over and take a look."
The 'underground labyrinth' was built in the corner of Rimuru Town, and its source is Ramiris.
Just nearly two months ago, shortly after the battle between Ji Xing and the Burning Flame Dragon, Ramiris, known as the Labyrinth Fairy, came uninvited and said that she was too bored living in the original labyrinth and wanted to destroy the labyrinth.
Move to Rimuru.
How could two demon kings live together? This was an invasion of territory, and Ramiris was not in a special situation like Shyvana. Rimuru wanted to refuse, but after learning about Ramiris's only ability to build mazes,
But found a 'business opportunity'.
She is worried about how to keep the town attractive to adventurers. She can't always rely on Ji Xing, right? Let's not say whether Ji Xing will live here forever. When the adventurers find out that even if they find Ji Xing, there is nothing they can do.
If you get skills easily, your enthusiasm will always fade or even have the opposite effect.
But if we run a rewarding ‘underground labyrinth’ challenge game where adventurers can get exercise and rewards, then the kingdom will definitely remain lively and prosperous.
If you are a challenger, go down to the 100th floor!
So she agreed to Ramiris, and even gave Ramiris, the devil who has always been called "sit at home without a job," a job - to help her build and operate a hundred-story underground maze.
She also specially invited Veldora to be the boss of the deepest 100th floor, and let Veldora unleash her violent magic power.
Just like many monsters in the Jura Great Forest were born under the influence of Veldora's magic. In just one month, the 100-floor maze was filled with monsters of various levels. The only thing missing was the ability to
The guy who is the guardian boss.
However, through her arrangements, these problems are gradually being solved, and it is expected that there will be no problem in trial operation of the maze after the founding ceremony in a week's time.
As for Ji Xing playing with Milim in the underground maze, that is another matter.
It was also the day that Ramiris came uninvited, Ji Xing left the Monster Kingdom and went to Qiyi's territory to complete the battle with Milim.
Rimuru couldn't follow her to watch, but according to the information she got, Ji Xing, who was so strong that it was exaggerated at first, had the upper hand. However, Milim was stronger than the Burning Flame Dragon, and Ji Xing claimed that if
If you use your ultimate ability and fight for a long time, winning or losing is not certain.
They didn't have the chance to fight for a long time. After watching the two fight for a few minutes, the skilled dragon species White Ice Dragon Velusaldo suddenly joined the battlefield. The one-on-one battle turned into a three-party fight, and Qi Yi's territory was in a mess.
, the speechless Qiyi intervened and stopped them from continuing to fight.
At that time, Rimuru was still a little amused and gloating, but it didn't take long before Milim, who slipped out from under Frey's nose and came, almost scared her to death - the Jura Forest couldn't withstand more natural disaster-level battles.
Now, if she fights two more games, her country will be gone, and only the tourist attractions will be left to visit!
Fortunately, Ji Xing was very considerate of her and diverted Milim's attention by playing games.
So the two of them occasionally played childish hide-and-seek on the first ten floors of the underground maze.
Milim hid and Ji Xing caught.
The method of hiding is the transformation skill that Ji Xing sold to Milim - Milim can transform into any monster on the first ten floors of the maze and disguise it, while Ji Xing has to hunt it down and see through it.
Well, this is probably also Ji Xing’s way of training as a skill merchant? I feel that while Milim is having fun, Milim’s use of his skills also makes him stronger every day, and the progress of becoming a saint is terrifying.
, According to Luminas, this guy can definitely become a 'godman'.
If a saint is so strong, how ridiculously strong can a god be?
Fortunately, after getting along with him, Ji Xing is probably a 'good person' even though he is sometimes unreliable.
All the way to the entrance of the underground maze, Rimuru heard Milim's signature laughter: "Wow hahaha - this time you passed by the goblin I transformed three times before you noticed me.
, I’ve mastered the trick, you won’t be able to catch me next time!”
Ji Xing must have let something go, Milim was happy too early... Rimuru complained for no reason, walked in, and greeted: "Ji Xing, Milim! Oh, Ramiris is here too?"
"What do you mean Ramiris is here?" Ramiris just threw a flying kick, which was caught by Rimuru without any pain.
Milim also ran over, put her hands on her hips and said, "You came just in time, Rimuru, I'm hungry!"
Staying with these two demon kings, Rimuru always felt like he was visiting a children's paradise. He motioned to Zhu Na to order some honey snacks for Milim. She looked at Ji Xing and said: "Ji Xing, the town is in some trouble now. I don't know what you are doing."
Is there any way..."
She explained the problem. In short, the founding ceremony was coming soon. She wanted to show everyone the prosperity and tolerance of the Federation, but the situation in front of her that the hotels and restaurants were full made her really helpless.
Ji Xing thought for a moment and said, "It's simple. Isn't that what the underground labyrinth is built for?"
"Here?" Rimuru was startled and looked at Ramiris: "But... doesn't it mean that only the first thirty floors have been laid out? The monsters and traps below still need to be set up... Do you want to start some trial operation?
activities?”
"No." Ji Xing said with a smile: "Since there are too many people and we can't entertain them, then we can lock some people in the maze and let Ramiris isolate each room. It won't be difficult, right?"
"……close?!"
"Wait a mininute."
As Ji Xing spoke, a strange magic rhythm stirred up on him. Rimuru vaguely felt the fluctuations in time and space, and also felt Ji Xing's aura rising in a fleeting way... What's wrong?
"Explanation. The similarity between the magic element fluctuation on the individual Ji Xing and the fluctuation of the unique skill that is promoted to the ultimate skill is 99%."
"...?"
The King of Wisdom's voice echoed, and Rimuru couldn't help but be stunned. What is it? The fluctuation of the unique skill to the ultimate skill? Ji Xing obtained another ultimate skill while speaking?!
"Announcement. The challenge of the unique skill 'Ke Jia' is advanced. The challenge is successful and it is upgraded to the ultimate skill 'Ke Jia Ji Ji Xing Qi Xin'!"
Well, this is because after several days of hard work, the main body successfully established a contract with the one-star Conan World World Will, giving him the ability to advance to become a scientist at any time.
And in the past two months, he has used Milim's training to free up two ultimate skill promotion positions, and it is easy to promote one.
"I'll be back soon."
After slightly realizing the power of Ke Xue's master, Ji Xing disappeared in the maze in a flash. Rimuru, Milim, and Ramiris were left behind and looked at each other in confusion for about five minutes. Ji Xing returned in a flash, with more in his hands.
Got a pair of 'sunglasses'.
They looked like ordinary sunglasses, except there was an extra blue button on the edge of the frame.
"This is……?"
"Combat power detector." Ji Xing smiled.
"……ah?"
"Is it the one in Dragon Ball?!" In surprise, Veldora appeared next to several people in an instant: "Show me quickly!"
Well, he had been eavesdropping, and Rimuru had discovered it a long time ago. But since Ji Xing defeated Velgrendo, Veldora and Ji Xing have been a little awkward together. It can't be said that they are afraid, but Ji Xing will definitely inherit
He received some shadow from his sister.
But when he heard comics as a holy book, he couldn't bear it when he heard about the combat power detector.
"How is it possible..."
Just as Rimuru wanted him to stop dreaming, Ji Xing said: "It's similar to that one, but to be precise, it's called a 'magic element detector'. It can only detect the amount of target magic element."
...is it true or false?
A pair of sunglasses?!
Ji Xing had handed it to Veldora, and Veldora couldn't wait to put it on and immediately pressed the blue button towards Rimuru.
"Hey, don't try it on me..."
Didi didi——
Before he could stop him, a line of numbers appeared in front of Veldora's eyes. He laughed loudly and said: "One, ten, one hundred... Rimuru, your combat power is only 4856435 points!"
Where does the word "only" come from? You obviously only measured me? There are zeros and wholes, which is quite decent. Besides, Ji Xing said that the detection is the amount of magic energy, right?
By the way, is this data small or large?
"Veldora, look at me!" Milim, who gradually understood, was eager to give it a try.
Veldora immediately looked at Milim and pressed the button. As a result, the 'sunglasses' only made a long beep, but no number appeared.
"Hey, it's not easy to use."
Veldora took off her sunglasses in confusion, Ji Xing took them back and gave them to Rimuru.
"That means Milim's magic element exceeds the detection limit, which is 99999999."
"...Wahahahaha!" Milim laughed proudly, and Veldora also said: "As expected of my eldest brother's child, awesome!"
"..." Rimuru couldn't believe it, it was 20 times more than mine?! Is it that exaggerated? Is this thing accurate? Who is it based on?!
Seeing that they were having fun, Ramiris couldn't wait to say: "Look at me, Rimuru! The most powerful demon king, Ramiris!"
Rimuru puts on the detector and satisfies her.
"Hmm...173580?"
"One hundred and seventy thousand?" Ramiris raised her fingers and became furious two seconds later: "Impossible! This is not allowed! Rimuru, you missed two zeros!"
"It feels really accurate." Rimuru's mutterings made Ramiris start punching and kicking her crazily, while Rimuru just looked at Zhuna.
350892, Oh, it's quite capable. It's more than twice as good as the Demon King's Shame.
Where is Shion? 1257744?! Wow, this should be on the verge of awakening the Demon King, right? This guy Shion is really ridiculously strong now.
She turned around and found that Veldora had already made a handsome pose: "Rimuru, come and see my power!"
Rimuru satisfied him and then exclaimed: "88126579? It's more than 17 times as big as mine. It's worthy of being a dragon. You and Milim are both monsters in terms of magic."
"More than eighty million?" Veldora only hummed lightly, suddenly clamped his arms at both ends of his waist, and shouted: "Magic! Liberation!"
boom--
The powerful magic wind pressure shook, and Rimuru was shocked and grabbed Ramiris to protect Zhuna. In his sight, Veldora had entangled herself in the magic tornado, and laughed wildly: "Let's take a look again!
My true fighting power!"
"...Are you an idiot?! It hasn't changed at all, okay?! No! Because of attrition, the numbers are still dropping! Do you think it's really a Dragon Ball anime and can still be explosive?!"
"...Huh? No way???"
Veldora withdrew her magic power in disappointment, and Shuna and Shion also breathed a sigh of relief.
Rimuru rolled his eyes at Veldora angrily, let go of the confused Ramiris, and looked at Ji Xing: "It seems to be really accurate. What is the principle of this thing? No matter how you look at it, it is completely unscientific.
Based on unrealistic technology.”
As she spoke, she pressed the button and saw a number - 8888888.
This made her mouth twitch. This number seemed too fake. Did Ji Xing use his own magic as the standard? No, there should still be a way to hide magic to avoid detection, right? But this also proves that as a human being,
Ji Xingguang's magic power is multiple times stronger than that of the Demon King like me. It's outrageous!
"The principle is hard to explain, so just think of it as the product of my new ultimate skill." Ji Xing smiled and said: "The amount of magic power does not represent the real combat power. The magic power of the White Ice Dragon and the Burning Flame Dragon are both between six and seven thousand.
Wan's level, and Guy's magic power is only about 40 million, but they are both stronger than Veldora who has more than 88 million, so this thing should be used as a reference equipment."
Veldora: "..."
If you can't beat it...
Rimuru nodded: "I know, but what does this have to do with what you just said...'locking' some adventurers into an underground maze?"
"We are like this..."
As Ji Xing explains, Rimuru's eyes gradually brighten, which is really a big help!
…
Two hours later.
After briefly walking around the Monster Town for half a circle, Masayuki, who was overwhelmed by the crowds and fans, suddenly heard the sound of a "horn" that made him trance.
"Hey hey hey, can you hear me clearly?"
Just like the dean of school, someone was broadcasting to the whole town from the center of the town. Everyone stopped and looked at the center in confusion.
"Ahem, hello everyone, welcome to the Jura Tempest Federation. I am Rimuru Tempest, the leader of the Federation. There are many tourists during this time. If the Federation does not provide good hospitality, please forgive me.
."
"Rimuru...is the Demon King..."
"You actually asked us to 'forgive' you?"
Low noises rang out everywhere, and Rimuru's voice continued to spread: "I know that many adventurers come after Ji Xing, a skill merchant who lives in the town temporarily, and want to buy skills from him.
But Ji Xing said that his ability is limited and he cannot sell his skills to everyone. In order not to let everyone down, after discussions between Ji Xing and I, we decided to start a competition for skill purchase qualifications."
Wow——
At this moment, there was a huge crowd, and many adventurers were excited and cheering.
After seeing the battlefield where Ji Xing fought against the Burning Flame Dragon, many adventurers no longer came just for the skills. They pursued Ji Xing's strength and strength and regarded Ji Xing as their idol.
Now the idol is so considerate, and for the sake of fairness, he contacted the devil to organize a competition to purchase qualifications. How could they not be moved?
Then Rimuru increased his voice: "In order to fairly take care of adventurers of every level, this competition does not involve fighting, nor does it ask about one's background. The competition only involves hard work and growth.
We have special instruments that can accurately detect the amount of magic elements of the contestants. After completing the detection and registration, the contestants will be sent to a special underground palace room. The timer starts from the moment you enter. The contestants need to
I spent 7 days and 7 nights there practicing alone.
When the countdown ends, we will test your magic power again, and the 100 people who have grown the most during the seven days of retreat will be eligible to purchase skills from Ji Xing!"
After he finished speaking, his voice became less loud.
This special rule made everyone a little confused, but the number of one hundred made many people even more excited. Instead of fighting, we only have to fight for seven days to get the one hundred... There is a chance!
Skill merchants are indeed a 'miracle' that helps us low-level adventurers! Even D-level and E-level have a chance, right? How can we not give it a try?!
“Please don’t be impatient, the registration deadline is seven days later on the eve of the Founding Day, which means the final results will not be announced until two weeks later.
There are no additional benefits to entering the underground palace early, and the solitary retreat will be lonelier than everyone expected. Please prepare food, daily necessities, and even entertainment and entertainment first, and be fully prepared before proceeding to the following
Sign up at several locations..."
boom--
The streets and alleys suddenly came alive again.
Fortunately, the four of them looked at each other.
Crazy Wolf suddenly snorted coldly: "It feels like there will be a conspiracy! But Master Masayuki is not afraid of any tricks, so let's sign up too!"