Chapter 3: The Long-Awaited Golden Finger
Roy, seeing them working so hard at kendo practice, taught them some kendo knowledge. To his surprise, the three girls had quite decent kendo talent.
Roy even found himself wondering whether to take them as retainers.
However after careful deliberation, he decided to wait a little longer.
Taking retainers was an extremely important matter, because the chess pieces were only that many.
Demon chess pieces were modeled on real-world chess.
In the Rating Game there were: 1 King, 1 Queen, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights, 2 Bishops, 8 Pawns — 16 in total.
The 15 pieces other than the King were distributed by the incumbent Demon Kings.
That is to say, what he could use was only 15 chess pieces.
Because the King chess piece, which could cause the ability of its holder to leap dramatically in strength, was considered too dangerous.
Therefore it could only be distributed by Ajuka Beelzebub, the creator of the demon chess pieces.
So taking retainers required very careful consideration.
Roy often thought: how good it would be if he could have unlimited chess pieces! That way it wouldn't be such a troublesome matter. But this was only wishful thinking.
"Good morning, everyone!"
Looking at the several girls, Roy also smiled and greeted them.
The time in class was extremely boring — Roy even fell asleep with his head on the desk.
All the way until four o'clock in the afternoon when school let out, the boring day finally passed.
Next came free club activity time.
Roy and several kendo club girls from his class came together to the kendo club.
Having the girls practice kendo on their own, Roy entered his dedicated training room alone and began cultivating.
Even without his sister's supervision, he would not slack off. Every day, no matter how late, he had to complete the training tasks his sister had assigned.
"Ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-seven... ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-eight... ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine... One hundred thousand!"
"Huff... huff..."
Having swung his sword one hundred thousand times again, Roy's two hands trembled somewhat.
Was this already his limit?
Looking at his trembling hands, Roy fell somewhat silent.
The plot was about to begin soon — fallen angels, Riser Phoenix, White Dragon Emperor, and so on, one powerful enemy after another.
With his current strength, what could he actually do?
Thinking of this, he felt unwilling to accept it. Was his strength truly going to stop here?
"Ding! The Strongest Demon King System has been activated. Please check the functions on your own, Host!"
Hearing the voice that suddenly appeared in his mind, Roy was stunned.
Then he broke into wild joy. He was no stranger to things like systems.
Originally, when he had just transmigrated, he had been expecting to awaken some kind of golden finger.
However, sixteen years had passed, and the so-called golden finger had never appeared. He had already given up hope on it.
What he had not expected was that the golden finger had actually arrived after all.
Indeed — a golden finger may be late, but it will never be absent.
He closed his eyes and began examining the system in his mind.
Before long he understood the capabilities of this system.
This system had no function to instantly grant Roy powerful strength. Instead, it endowed him with demon chess pieces.
The demon chess pieces granted by the system were all mutated pieces, considerably more powerful than ordinary pieces.
Moreover, these pieces were unlimited.
That is to say, Roy could contract as many retainers as he wished. To his surprise, the unlimited chess pieces he had just fantasized about had actually become real.
Furthermore, through the ability of the King piece fused within him, as long as he successfully contracted a retainer, his own strength would receive feedback.
The stronger the retainer's power, the stronger the power fed back to him.
That is to say, as long as his retainers were numerous enough and strong enough, his strength could grow without any upper limit.
Of course this also had limitations — if the gap in strength was too great, the contract would fail.
His current level was that of a low-class demon, which meant he could not contract retainers above Demon King level.
Thinking about it, Roy found that the number of retainers he could contract from memory was not many, and moreover he would not contract male retainers.
What he knew included Asia Argento, Xenovia, Irina Shidou, Rossweisse, Ravel Phoenix, and so on.
Or perhaps adding the three girls from the kendo club?
Even if all these people were contracted, he estimated he could just barely reach Demon King level — and that did not match his expectations.
Perhaps his sister could also be added?
He shook his head, and then Roy continued reading downward through the system function descriptions.
Sure enough, the system already had a solution prepared.
That was the transmigration function. After a certain period of time, the system would randomly select several worlds for him to transmigrate to other worlds.
Seeing this function, Roy immediately gave the system a thumbs up. This solution was truly too good.
As long as he could go to other worlds, contracting retainers would not be a difficult matter.
He immediately and impatiently clicked the transmigration function button.
The next moment, three framed screens appeared before Roy's eyes — inside them were precisely the worlds randomly selected by the system.
First world: Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend.
Seeing this world, the first people Roy thought of were Eriri, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Megumi Katou.
Unfortunately they were all ordinary people with no combat talent. Even if contracted, they could not bring him much of a boost.
Second world: Highschool of the Dead.
This was a world where the apocalypse had just begun. The person who left the deepest impression on him was Saeko Busujima.
This woman was an exceptionally outstanding traditional woman — skilled in cooking, humble and gentle toward others, deeply versed in the way of a wife.
Moreover she had very high kendo talent, and her kendo ability in Roy's eyes was already quite good. Of course, this was compared to himself.
Compared to ordinary people, she was a kendo genius.
And this woman possessed a powerful bloodthirst. Roy did not dislike this personality.
In fact he quite liked this point about Saeko Busujima — this was precisely the mindset of a strong person.
If Eriri were contracted, even after becoming a demon she would probably not have much combat power.
But Saeko Busujima was different. Roy even suspected that after she was transformed into a demon, she would have the strength of a mid-class demon.
This was Saeko Busujima's potential.