"Artoria, do you want to work in the Soul Guild, or stay by my side?"
"I want to stay by Master's side!"
Artoria was not stupid. Choosing between being a bodyguard for Justeaze or Rin, she naturally knew what to pick.
"Then from now on, I'll entrust the bodyguard work to you."
Rin planned to establish a place similar to a police department.
And Artoria would be the supreme leader of this department, supervising and managing the internal security of the town for Rin.
Rin smiled and patted the girl's shoulder. "Let me arrange Frankenstein's matters, and then I'll take you out for a big meal!"
"A big meal!"
Hearing there was food, the ahoge on top of Artoria's head instantly stood up.
Sure enough, Artoria could not resist the temptation of delicious food.
Grumble.
Artoria quietly walked to the door of the room, acting as a personal guard.
Seeing this, Rin smiled, then summoned Frankenstein to his side.
Frankenstein's situation was a bit special.
As early as the Type-Moon World, Rin had already transformed Frankenstein into his named monster through the Heroic Spirit Contract.
Unfortunately, Frankenstein's aptitude was limited, and she failed to acquire a Unique Skill.
[Frankenstein]
[Race: Undead Fiend]
[Magicules: 12000 EP (A-rank)]
Her race was Undead Fiend.
The so-called Undead Fiend could be understood as a life form resurrected from a corpse.
It was somewhat like a zombie, but not quite a zombie.
Zombies could not reproduce, but Undead Fiends could.
Therefore, Undead Fiends were not undead creatures. They were no different from normal monsters, all living individuals.
"Stones becoming spirits, trees becoming spirits, and now even corpses can become spirits."
Additionally, Clayman, one of the Ten Demon Lord Seeds who had recently been causing trouble for Rin, belonged to the Undead Fiend race.
"Mas...ter...."
"Yes, hello, Frankenstein."
Rin gently patted Frankenstein's head, and she immediately showed a comfortable expression, like a puppy receiving its owner's caress.
He didn't have high expectations for Frankenstein.
As long as the girl could live happily, that was enough.
"It's just her language ability that needs to be improved."
Rin's requirement for Frankenstein was to quickly master fluent speaking ability.
"Mhm, mhm!"
Frankenstein was very obedient and would diligently execute any command Rin gave her.
"So well-behaved..."
Thus, Rin stroked Frankenstein's pink hair while opening his own attribute panel.
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[Itoshi Rin]
[Race: Dragonoid]
[Level: Special A Demon Lord Seed (Calamity-rank)]
[Magicules: 300,000 EP]
[Occupation: Mage]
[General Skills: Life Magic, Healing Magic, Elemental Magic, Pokémon Magic, etc.]
[Intrinsic Skills: Adaptability, All-Profession Mastery, etc.]
[Extra Skills: Dragon Eye, Explosion Magic, Soul Summon, Human-Soul Fusion, Demon Lord Seed's Pressure]
[Unique Skills: Void Ark, Voice of the World, Convergence, Capturer, Duplicator, Spirit Controller, Hall of Valor, Original Treasure Vault]
[Ultimate Skill: King of the End (Incomplete)]
[Special Skills: Magicules Solidification (Inheritable), Star Particle Manipulation (Non-inheritable), Ten Rings of God (Non-inheritable), Dragon Transformation (Non-inheritable), Command Spell (Non-inheritable)]
[Exclusive Skill: Twin Martial Soul ]
[Primary Subordinate: Violet (8 million EP)]
[Subordinates: Ogerpon, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Artoria, Justeaze (5/12), Kougetsu, Shuna, Shion, Souei (4/24)]
[Kin: Oni (1/3)]
[Marked Worlds (Cooldown: 7 days): Pokémon World (Anchorable), Konosuba World (Anchorable), Soul Land Universe (Locked), Type-Moon World (Anchorable)]
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"Two Unique Skills, one Ultimate Skill, plus the special skill Command Spell."
"Even the magicules have recovered to 300,000."
"This doesn't even count the 8 million magicules stored with Violet..."
Rin stored most of his magicules with Violet.
He kept over a Demon Lord Seed's worth of magic power himself, so that Violet's magicules recovery effect could take effect on him.
"Void Ark, Hall of Valor, Original Treasure Vault."
"And King of the End."
Rin looked at the new skills that had appeared on his attribute panel.
Void Ark, as the name suggested, was an outlier ability that allowed him to travel with others, evolving from the Void Gate's personal traversal.
Although called an "Ark," its essence was a small world exclusive to Rin.
Rin no longer had to worry about encountering excellent talents in other worlds and being unable to bring them back.
"With this ability, even if I can't get by in the Cardinal World in the future, I can take everyone and run."
Rin was someone who liked to plan his retreats in advance. He asked Violet, "Do you think there's a possibility for the Void Ark to reverse-devour the Cardinal World?"
"Yes, but there's no need."
"What do you mean?"
"Fusion is easy, separation is difficult."
Violet explained, "You are bound to the Cardinal World. As long as the Cardinal World exists, we are immortal."
"But what if the Cardinal World is destroyed?"
Would the Cardinal World be destroyed, and who could destroy it?
The former possibility did exist.
Who?
Milim, and Rimuru in his final stage, both could do it.
Therefore, treating the Cardinal World as a soul container was not absolutely safe.
"The Void Ark is like another retreat."
"You mean?"
Rin said in surprise, "We can treat the Void Ark as a second binding target?"
"That's right."
If Violet needed to expend effort to gradually infiltrate and gain control of the Cardinal World, then the Void Ark was completely Rin's private property.
He didn't even need to bind it.
Because the Void Ark itself was one with Rin.
"The Cardinal World and the Void Ark have no causal connection with each other."
In other words, even if someone destroyed the world of Tensura, Rin could still start a new world journey through the Void Ark.
At worst, just switch to another world.
"But if we merge the two, then we'll have no choice at all."
"I understand."
Having finally gained a second life, how could Rin abandon it?
"The Void Ark has no causal relationship with the Star King Dragon."
"This means its growth potential is even higher than that of the Cardinal World!"
(To be continued.)