"Liya, 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 Yustizafull or Bai Luo, she naturally knew what to pick.
"Then from now on, I'll entrust the bodyguard work to you."
Bai Luo 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 Bai Luo.
"Master~~~"
Having been ignored for so long, Artoria looked at Bai Luo with immense gratitude.
"Alright, just a little longer."
Bai Luo smiled and patted the girl's shoulder, "Let me arrange Fran's matters, and then I'll take you out for a big meal!"
"A big meal!"
Hearing there was food, the Daimao Wang on top of Artoria's head instantly stood up.
Sure enough, the Daimao Wang could not resist the temptation of delicious food.
Grumble.
The Daimao Wang quietly walked to the door of the room, acting as a personal guard.
Seeing this, Bai Luo smiled, then summoned Fran to his side.
Fran's situation was a bit special.
As early as the Type-Moon World, Bai Luo had already transformed Fran into his named monster through the Heroic Spirit Contract.
Unfortunately, Fran's aptitude was limited, and she failed to acquire a Unique Skill.
[Fran Kenstein]
Race: Undead Fiend
magic essence: 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 Bai Luo, belonged to the Undead Fiend race.
"Mas...ter...~."
"Yes, hello, Fran."
Bai Luo gently patted Fran's head, and she immediately showed a comfortable expression, like a puppy receiving its owner's caress.
He didn't have high expectations for Fran.
As long as the girl could live happily, that was enough.
"It's just her language ability that needs to be improved."
Bai Luo's requirement for Fran was to quickly master fluent speaking ability.
"Mhm, mhm!"
Fran was very obedient and would diligently execute any command Bai Luo gave her.
"So well-behaved..."
Thus, Bai Luo stroked Fran's pink hair while opening his own attribute panel.
[Bai Luo]
Race: Dragonkin
Level: Special A Demon Lord Seed (Calamity-rank)
magic essence: 300,000 EP
Occupation: Mage
General Skills: Life Magic, Healing Magic, Elemental Magic, Pokémon Magic, etc.
Inherent Skills: Adaptability, All-Profession Mastery, etc.
Additional Skills: Dragon Eye, Explosion Magic, Soul Summon, Human-Soul Fusion, Demon Lord Seed's Pressure
Unique Skills: Void Ark [Outlier], Spirit of the World, Unique Skill: Ten Thousand Spirits Return to One, Capturer, Learner, Spirit Controller, Hall of Valor, Original Treasure Vault
Ultimate Skill: King of the End (Incomplete)
Special Skills: Magic Element Solidification (Inheritable), Star Particle Manipulation (Non-inheritable), Ten Rings of God (Non-inheritable), Dragon Transformation (Non-inheritable), Command Seal (Non-inheritable)
Exclusive Skill: Twin Martial Soul · Cold Wilderness Dominator
Primary Subordinate: Violet (8 million EP)
Subordinates: Egui Peng, Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Artoria, Yustizafull (5/12), Hong Maru, Zhu Cai, Shion, Cang Ying (4/24)
Kin: Oni (1/3)
Marked Worlds (Cooldown: 7 days): Pokémon World (Anchorable), Konosuba World (Anchorable), Douluo Universe (Locked), Type-Moon World (Anchorable)
"Two Unique Skills, one Ultimate Skill, plus the special skill Command Seal."
"Even the magic essence has recovered to 300,000."
"This doesn't even count the 8 million magic essence stored with Violet..."
Bai Luo stored most of his magic essence with Violet.
He kept over a Demon Lord Seed's worth of magic power himself, so that Violet's magic essence recovery effect could take effect on him.
"Void Ark, Hall of Valor, Original Treasure Vault."
"And King of the End."
Bai Luo 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 Bai Luo.
Like the Xianzhou in Honkai: Star Rail, Bai Luo 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."
Bai Luo 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?"
Bai Luo 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 Bai Luo's private property.
He didn't even need to bind it.
Because the Void Ark itself was one with Bai Luo.
"The Cardinal World and the Void Ark have no causal connection with each other."
In other words, even if someone destroyed the world of Reincarnated Slime, Bai Luo 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 Bai Luo abandon it?
"The Void Ark has no causal relationship with the Star Dragon King."
"This means its growth potential is even higher than that of the Cardinal World!"