Slimes are slimes—
The moment you cut a slime and burn its half,
The other half gets burned.
Not all slimes—
But certain slimes are like that.
So we used that,
And the moment they all draw the map,
The one outside receives it.
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And there's more we got from the Slime and the Vamps.
Lastly, we got Sigma's treasury.
Sigma has been taking too many unknown dungeons—
Thanks to our system that is completely different than others,
Sigma got so many treasuries.
And lastly, and more importantly—Alpha.
Alpha has what we don't have, and probably never even reached:
The cursed treasuries.
They all are tools that curse—
But thanks to Noa,
She inverted the curse into a holy power,
Which helped us make it.
Though it can't already be reversed because Alpha sucked the curse out of it,
So it's just an ancient weapon made for demons.
And we used that and reversed the vessel of the curse—
That it receives curse and stores it and uses it.
We reversed it using Noa's power,
And now it can only hold holy power.
And thanks to Zephyr, we used his Holy Power Form and aided them with Holy Mana.
So whatever element you use,
The holy power will activate,
Making it immune to demons.
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Then Suzuki said:
> "You will make a fortune with this.
You guys are gonna be super famous for it."
Then we said:
> "The auction is 3 days from now."
He said:
> "Yes, it is."
Then we said we will stay the 3 days here.
After, he said to me:
> "We will inform the news that we are sponsoring only you this year in the auction."
We said thank you and enjoyed the high life.
That night,
We all 5 appeared on the news.
That's when:
Sayaka and Taeyang,
David,
Dante,
Yosuke and Raijin,
Rowan, and Alistar's brat, Thoe, and Lord Alistar himself,
Jain and Mei,
Rim, Faysal, Hana, and Layla,
Grand Magician Fayes and the King himself,
And others...
The whole world,
Plus our final target audience: Talia and Lyra—
All were watching us.
That's what I liked.
Every four years, this auction gets treated like the World Cup.
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Finally, we got it and we signed the contract.
Then Zephyr was the one to do it.
His father was so proud.
He was showing his dominance by politician's steeple hand position,
Straight, with a coat and dark blue shirt and dark red necktie.
He was getting so famous.
After that, we all got invitations,
And when the time came,
Even Lord Alistar logged in.
Then the journalist said to me:
> "How confident are you guys in getting to the academy,
Competing in all assignments,
And winning the final tournament of this year?"
Then I said:
> "Well, it depends on the other students,
Especially the ones you called The Eights.
But I assure you—
We will win with ease."
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So anyway,
We are done.
Then another one asked,
> "How are you going to prove to us that you can do it?"
Then I said,
> "Why should we prove our strength to you guys?
Listen—just wait and see, okay?"
Another one said,
> "Can we know which dungeons you recently broke?"
Then I said,
> "Seriously? Come on, you have a better question than that.
Well—it's private, and we're not gonna answer that."
Then another one said,
> "Dante recently showed a video of him kicking the ass of demons alone in a restricted place, and that place isn't restricted anymore."
Then I said,
> "What does that have to do with me?"
And he said,
> "What's your response?"
Then I said,
> "Huh… Hello Dante, you did a good job. Great…"
With a cute face—and they all laughed.
Then I said,
> "Is that all?"
Another one said,
> "Do you have a girlfriend?"
Then I said,
> "That's private."
Another one said,
> "When was your first kiss?"
Well... I guess it's because I was the last person to be questioned that they now ask even crazy questions.
So I said,
> "Well, I'm leaving. What's next? You're gonna ask me how to do a French kiss or something?"
I said that with an annoyed, unamused face and got out of there.
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Then the time finally came.
Nao was the one to present—
As we had more chance of getting views because of her undeniable back.
She wore an Aphrodite midi dress and every man was dreaming to get a chance with her.
But things changed when one from the Werde (Al-Masa) Kingdom said:
> "100,000 points."