"My Hair Ornament fell into the river."
Itsuki stood by the Wind-Blown River, speaking in a Monotone.
The River God in front of her forced a smile, reaching into the river water and rummaging around.
"Is it this Golden Hair Ornament, or the other Silver Hair Ornament, Itsuki: "The ordinary one."
"Hmm... you truly are an honest and good child. All three Hair Ornaments are yours."
You have completed the Mission - Honest River God
Your final evaluation has been improved
"It's done."
Itsuki reported to Kisaragi Rin.
The entire process was too quick; she was already starting to wonder if the trial in the pumpkin carriage earlier was something Illya had just come up with on her own.
"Good that it's done. An S-rank should be guaranteed?"
Kisaragi Rin spoke with a questioning tone. The Mission Itsuki triggered was too strange; he always felt that Nakano Maruo hadn't told him everything.
"Should be?"
Itsuki's expression was one of complete innocence.
Before she could think further, the River God cautiously interjected, "Can I leave now?"
Kisaragi Rin shook his head, "Not yet. I've suddenly found your Ability quite interesting."
Just now, when Itsuki threw the Hair Ornament into the water, Kisaragi Rin noticed that after the River God touched the Hair Ornament, it used some Ability to conjure the golden and Silver Hair Ornaments out of thin air, and these two items were not illusory fakes.
Kisaragi Rin smiled, took out the Demon Slayer Sword that he had only used once from the Workshop, and threw it into the Wind-Blown River in front of the River God. "Now, try to use your Ability on this sword. If you can't do it, you'll be cut down by this sword."
River God: "..."
Thinking of the figure who had previously plunged his hand into its head and stirred, the River God could only grit its teeth and tremblingly reach into the river to stir.
After a while, it finally retrieved the Demon Slayer Sword.
One golden, one silver, one Iron-colored.
Equipment - Demon Slayer Sword
Description: A masterpiece completed with the full dedication of swordsmiths, sharp and brilliant, slaying evil demons.
Effect: Extremely hard, and the blade is fused with special ore, capable of absorbing and storing sunlight.
Bonus: Strength +2, Physique +1
Usage Condition: Strength 11, Physique 10
The stats of all three Demon Slayer Swords were identical; the golden and silver ones were just a different coating.
But this is replication!
In many novels, the protagonist's Ability is only to turn one object into two each day.
It must be said that as Strange Tales, the Abilities they are born with are truly illogical.
Kisaragi Rin was a little disappointed that the replicated Equipment didn't show any enhancement, but this situation might be because this River God's Strength was too weak.
With the River God's forced smile, Kisaragi Rin took off his Demonic Garment.
Then he threw it into the river again.
"River God, can you do it one more time?"
The River God dared not speak, holding its trident with an expression on the verge of tears as it tried to fish out the clothes.
However, this time, its trident could not lift the Demonic Garment out of the water.
Its shit-green scales glowed brightly, extracting its Energy to the maximum extent to try and replicate this Equipment, which was far more advanced than the Demon Slayer.
Seeing this situation, the River God was already terrified to the point of tears.
What was eye-watering was that its tears, upon falling, actually turned into pearls and dropped into the river.
It could already imagine what the last words it would hear in its life would be.
"Oh, turns out you're not that useful after all."
Unfortunately, the River God was not a hot-blooded protagonist; even with all its might, it could not break through its limits.
Unable to replicate the Demonic Garment, it could only tremblingly pick it up, control the water flow to move away, carefully dry it, and then hold it over its head to Kisaragi Rin.
"Indeed, the Main World is still too peaceful. Hanako and the others, at least, received an education, yet they're still not as sensible as this Strange Tale from a ditch."
Kisaragi Rin put the Demonic Garment back on. Anna poked the River God's scales with her scythe, confirming that this fellow was a male merman.
This made her quite curious, "Don't fairy tales always say that only female mermaids' tears can turn into pearls?"
"Who knows."
Seeing the River God being so cooperative, Kisaragi Rin decided to temporarily take it in.
"You look like a Bikini Bottom Sea God, which actually fits my collecting habit quite well.
Hand over the land deed for this territory."
"Thank you, sir."
Fearing Kisaragi Rin would go back on his word, the River God quickly pulled off a scale and produced a blue land deed, which was the core of the entire Wind-Blown River.
Spider Mother took out the R'lyeh Text and directly fed the land deed to it.
The next moment, the R'lyeh Text moved without wind.
The book cover, which was always closed, suddenly unfolded, and one of the pages was that very land deed.
"Mortal, do not look upon me."
Who knows why the R'lyeh Text, a book, was acting shy like a bubble teapot, Spider Mother directly cursed the River God into a spider and put it into the Workshop.
It's true that it survived, but such an incredible Ability was not something a Strange Tale like you could possess.
Ordinary Abilities can be distributed freely, but this strategic-level power must naturally be used to cultivate top-tier combat power. Medea possesses the Third Magic Perpetual Motion, so perhaps she can exploit this Skill to the point of forming an army by herself.
Hmm... one piece of Equipment isn't enough!
Everyone here, one set each!
As for selling the replicated Equipment in Paradise Mall for Paradise Coins?
Such reselling is not allowed, otherwise, even without the River God's replication Skill, Kisaragi Rin would have long since used the Workshop to crack the Paradise's healing potions, mass-producing them to achieve Paradise Coins freedom.
Only items that players themselves open from a Paradise treasure chest can be listed on Paradise Mall.
In this situation, no one can exploit loopholes.
After all, when players open chests, it's a blind box, but when Paradise puts things inside, it's not blind.
This also led to two situations.
First is the birth of various player gatherings.
The safe Paradise Mall doesn't allow players to list their self-made trinkets, so players can only cautiously seek out or establish player gatherings, exchanging items with each other to try and increase their Strength.
Second is that large factions have an advantage over solo players.
Solo players have to put their lives on the line, while the internal channels of large factions don't need to worry about danger, which is also the advantage of Chiba Zoo.
"So what's the use of you swallowing the land deed?"
Kisaragi Rin looked at the R'lyeh Text and found that its page had turned into an aerial map of the Wind-Blown River, and even Kisaragi Rin and the others on the bank were in the drawing.
"Mortal, do not touch my body!"
The R'lyeh Text was still acting like a Tsundere Loli; Kisaragi Rin directly placed it on the Wind-Blown River.
Although this place is called Wind-Blown River, there is actually no wind flowing at all.
"The Ability is summoning! Summoning!"
The R'lyeh Text shouted.