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One advantage in attacking has been lost on me.

Honestly, I didn’t want to use Noel’s stealth ability, which relies on manipulating shadows and performing silent attacks. Using an ability that makes people afraid of my thin and undetectable presence would make them even more wary of my presence.

My decision to attack using Noel’s ability, the shadow attack, has brought me to a fair and just fight.

The sharp edge of my katana has been directed at the body of the Golden King Bear who is trying to heal the slash wound on the Golden King Bear back filled with slime tentacles.

"... How interesting..."

"... I like this game..."

"... A fair fight..."

"... Let’s do it..."

Ah, what is this?

My surprise attack from the shadows has made this cursed sword follow the direction of a fair and honest game like this.

Does the technique used by Noel feel very cunning and cheating to attack using a trick that can deceive all five senses?

"Let’s do it…"

"Playing around with you until you get bored," I replied while taking a stance to attack.

A flash of wind filled with magical energy from the cursed sword created a whirlwind that disrupted my vision. The presence of the Golden King Bear’s body which looked large and filled with a large amount of magical energy suddenly disappeared from my sight.

My vision was now replaced by the sight of a hurricane that formed a deadly whirlwind that emitted lightning streaks that struck without direction.

Jdaarr!!

Jdaamm!!

The lightning strikes that occurred randomly along with the whirlwind that obscured my vision made my eyes sting a little so I had to give in and close my eyes.

"This will be a game that makes me lose control of my powers," I muttered after feeling that the overflow of magical energy in front of me had changed into something abnormal.

The variations of magical energy from the Slime King, Slime Queen, Golden King Bear, and the Cursed Sword had mixed. This felt like fighting four magic cores at the same time.

Compared to them, I didn’t use any of my magic power at all and relied on Mio and Noel’s skill abilities. Without their help who gave me access to kiss their lips and trigger the Linked Ritual with them, I probably would have died in one hit.

At times like this, I hoped that the Goddess Aurora wouldn’t release another Yurification Quest that would be detrimental to my bad condition like this.

Jdaarr!!

Swwaasshh!!

The whirlwind of the typhoon and the lightning that flashed had become a frightening specter for several adventurers who preferred to retreat rather than watch my fight with the Golden King Bear.

That was the right decision because, in the beginning, this wasn’t a fight but a game that had been prepared by Goddess Aurora.

To fulfill the Quest given by the Goddess Aurora, I had to survive for five minutes, avoid the Golden King Bear’s attacks, and parry off one of the attacks from the cursed sword.

If I’m not mistaken... didn’t I manage to avoid one of the attacks from the Golden King Bear that was being controlled by the cursed sword?

Then... how am I supposed to parry off the attack of the cursed sword if the conditions in front of me are like this?

Oh, Goddess Aurora, how am I supposed to parry off a magical energy that forms a hurricane and a thunderstorm like this?

It looks like Goddess Aurora is torturing me with a Yurification Quest like this.

The lightning storm that struck randomly suddenly stopped and the hurricane that was destroying my visibility began to subside.

My cape which had been fluttering with the wind from the tornado slowly began to calm down.

From behind the tornado, a figure I didn’t recognize had shown itself.

A girl wrapped in a long black robe that covered her face was visible in front of me. Her body size which looked like a teenage girl was seen holding a black sword with an extraordinary surge of dense magical energy.

This sight seemed too surprising for some people, especially after the gust of wind lifted the girl’s head covering.

Her unchanging facial expression and the appearance of a bored girl slowly looked at me. When our gazes met, I could realize that the gaze had another meaning like she was targeting my body position to be slashed by her.

Sboomm!!

Before I could interpret the direction of the attack from her gaze, I could see in slow motion that she was darting towards me.

Ctiingg!!

Pranngg!!

I reflexively dodged and parried one of her attacks with a light downward swing, sending the cursed sword’s attack crashing toward the ground.

Baamm!!

"... Nice move..."

"... Human girl..."

"... I like this fast game..."

When our eyes met again, I could see that this was the true form of the cursed sword that had once felt the sacred magic energy of the Goddess of Destruction directly.

The eyes that looked bored and lonely had been waiting for the presence of their old Master to return to this world.

I also didn’t expect that the cursed sword could have another body that used its main body as a sword to be like this.

Doesn’t this mean that the Goddess of Destruction is very creative in giving life to her cursed sword?

[ I am very sure that my little sister is just lazy and doesn’t want to bother fighting so she gave her cursed sword a fake body that looks like a teenage girl. ]

[ Granting intelligence to one of her cursed swords. That was the first thing that came to my mind. ]

"Uhuh?" I was very confused by this situation.

I didn’t know that the Goddess of Destruction also had a lazy nature in doing things like humans and gave intelligence to a cursed sword.

[ Let alone a cursed sword gaining intelligence, there was even a mischievous Goddess who gave intelligence to a worm that was equal to the intelligence of the most genius person in the past timeline. ]

[ But it’s a shame, a worm can’t survive long enough to show its genius intelligence. ]

Is it just me or are the Goddesses in charge of this world too easily bored to do something like that?

[ Compared to boredom, we feel more like living in a pool of monotony in eternity, Lily-chan. ]

[ And it tortures our common sense to always live in such a monotonous state continuously without dying. ]

[ There are even some Goddesses who have small divine powers who come down to the world just to relieve their boredom from the Goddess realm. ]

My hands immediately positioned themselves to continue the game given by the cursed sword while listening to the words of the Goddess Aurora.

"Hey, where did that big Golden King Bear body go?"

"Are you tired of controlling a big inefficient body with such a wasteful big attack?"

In between the conversation with the Goddess Aurora and moving my body to play with the cursed sword, I made small talk with her.

"... Big body..."

"... Too uncomfortable to move..."

"... Small body..." Continue your saga on empire

"... Comfortable to move..."

I nodded to agree with her words.

Although I felt like hitting her after hearing the long pause in her words, it was still forgivable because her real voice sounded very soft to the ear.

"I understand that, even when I gained weight, I felt quite uncomfortable moving and wearing clothes that felt tight," I replied by nodding my head.

"I understand the feeling of having a big body and being inefficient in moving."

"However... can you not also make tentacles appear from the body of the slime you control?"

"That makes me feel uncomfortable and disgusted..." I said while glancing at the tentacles growing out of her back.

"As a girl, it’s a shame if those tentacles are an eyesore, especially with their sticky and dirty-looking slime," I continued while conveying the part that made me feel uncomfortable about the tentacles’ presence.

My words made one of the stealth slimes that had lost all of its magic energy and returned to being a slime ball immediately look very sad.

"C-Commander... Hiks!"

I could hear the sobs from its slime body from a distance.

"Hey! Quickly recover your magic energy before I feel very disgusted looking at your slimeball body!" While pressing the stealth slime that had lost its magic energy, I gave it an order to immediately return to its human form after its magic energy regenerated.

"I-I understand Commander! Please give me time to recover my magic energy until I regain my human form again!" the stealth slime replied from a distance without using the Soul Tame communication network.

I immediately turned my gaze towards the cursed sword that was in its human form.

The battle to carry out the Yurification Quest began again.

If only I could block the cursed sword attack and survive for five minutes, then I would be able to get the Quest completion reward given by the Goddess Aurora.

Speaking of the Quest completion reward given by the Goddess Aurora.

What is the difference between two titles that seem to have the same meaning?

The title of King of Stealth Slime and the title of Queen of Stealth Slime, shouldn’t be the same, right?

[ No... no... Lily-chan... ]

[ They are different titles and have different blessing effects. ]

[ King of Stealth Slime has the blessing to gain the recognition of the highest Stealth Slime herd’s authority from the male upper-level monsters and Queen of Stealth Slime is the blessing to gain the recognition of the highest Stealth Slime herd’s authority from the female upper-level monsters. ]

[ In the end... it will make the upper-level monsters think twice before they want to attack Lily-chan. ]

[ Let’s just say that if Lily-chan gets attacked, then it’s a declaration of war against the Stealth Slime herd since Lily-chan is their Supreme Commander who replaces the Slime King and Slime Queen. ]

Listening to the explanation that made my body feel an invisible burden, I looked like I wanted to end my relationship with the stealth slime herd that was bound by the Soul Tame contract.

Such a title...

Wouldn’t it officially make me both the Slime King and the Slime Queen too?

Ahh... no... no!!

I don’t want to but it’s too late!