BAMN: Chapter 144/145

Chapter 144: Broken Skill

Thus, Rin effectively brought back two True Demon Lord-qualified subordinates from the Type-Moon World.

Adding Ogerpon and Snow Empress, a total of four strong individuals who can achieve Demon Lord Seed without Rin's help.

You mean Ice Empress, and Benimaru and Shion from the original work?

They are different.

Benimaru and Shion relied on Rimuru's bestowal, which had nothing to do with their own aptitudes.

As for Ice Empress, the only way for her to achieve Demon Lord Seed is to create slaughter.

According to the environment of the Cardinal World,

If Ice Empress really did that, she would probably be subjugated before she even became one.

This is why Rin prefers farming-type skills.

Ogerpon, fights but doesn't kill, gets stronger when facing stronger opponents.

Snow Empress, natural expansion, benefits all living beings.

Artoria, spreads renown, commands Holy Spirits.

Justeaze, soul purification, silent and unnoticed.

Develop quietly, constantly growing stronger without harming others, and finally making a big splash.

This is the favored child of the Cardinal World, the only answer to the current version.

"Then, what about Edict of Heaven?"

After confirming Justeaze's potential, Rin was happy, but he didn't forget the effect of this strange Unique Skill.

"Edict of Heaven allows me to establish connections with all individuals through your Soul Corridor, Rin."

Justeaze: "Under this connection, I can borrow their power."

"Borrow?"

Rin: "Does it require consent?"

"Yes."

With consent, Justeaze can borrow the power of her other companions through the Soul Corridor.

"No, isn't there a limit? What is the upper limit of this skill?" Rin asked.

"There is no upper limit."

"No…"

Rin was truly shocked. "You mean, as long as Snow Empress is willing, you can unleash her Three Ultimate Techniques?"

"To be precise, it's not me unleashing it, but me directly summoning Snow Empress's attack."

The borrowing ability of Edict of Heaven is more like initiating a video call with a companion and then having them help with a proxy attack.

Except this proxy attack doesn't require the person to appear in person.

"However, this Unique Skill can only exert its proper effect when under Rin's command."

Without Rin, if it were just Justeaze alone.

This Unique Skill would truly be useless.

The establishment of the Soul Corridor is a symbol of the bond between named monsters and their namer.

"If it were just me, I could only borrow from the monsters I've given names to."

"Unless I accept the naming of other monsters and submit to them."

Justeaze: "Otherwise, Edict of Heaven cannot grant me power beyond my own."

Her subordinate monsters could not be stronger than her.

If she relied on herself, the Edict of Heaven skill would be equivalent to nothing.

Unlike now.

Justeaze is part of Rin's Soul Corridor.

She can send a request for help to any companion through the Soul Corridor.

There are no restrictions, as long as the other party agrees.

Even Rin can use Justeaze to remotely kill powerful enemies.

"Furthermore, Edict of Heaven can also establish a transit station in the soul world."

After explaining the effect of Edict of Heaven on herself, Justeaze proposed another use for this Unique Skill.

"Transit station?"

Another brand new concept, Rin asked: "What's it for?"

"Hmm…"

Justeaze pondered for a moment, then found a good analogy from the memories Rin gave her: "It's like the Adventurers Guild you joined in the Konosuba World!"

Yes, the Adventurers Guild.

Edict of Heaven will establish a soul-level guild.

All subordinates, dependents, named monsters, and followers belonging to Rin can enter it.

They can submit their wishes like posting quests.

"Others can see these quests and then contact the quest giver through me."

The connection here is not just as simple as making a phone call.

It's being able to, like Justeaze, allow the weaker party to remotely borrow the power of a superior.

"However, to accept a quest, certain requirements must first be met."

"There are no thresholds for quest givers, anyone can post a quest," Justeaze said.

"As for adventurers, they must at least possess the strength of an A-rank monster."

It's like upper and lower levels.

Lower levels cannot interact with each other.

Only superiors can provide help to subordinates.

"This ability…"

Rin found that this Unique Skill gave him a strange sense of déjà vu.

It seemed he had seen a similar ability somewhere before.

"Wait a minute, let me sort this out."

"Let's make a hypothesis."

Rin: "Suppose Gobta is fighting an A-Rank monster. He can't defeat his opponent, so he posts a request in the Soul Guild."

"At this point, I see Gobta's request. Can I help him fight the monster?"

"Theoretically, yes."

Justeaze shook her head and said, "But in practice, there are definitely some limitations."

"I don't know who the Gobta you mentioned is."

"But if he's just an ordinary Goblin, he can't bear your overly immense power."

Based on Justeaze's description, Rin largely understood the limitations of this ability.

On this point, Rin was no different from other A-Rank Demon Lord Seeds.

If Gobta's limit was the full force of an A-Rank monster's attack,

then even if Rin personally intervened, he could still only provide the destructive power of an A-Rank monster.

"How does this sound a bit like the relationship between gods and believers in DND?"

If Rin was likened to a god, and his followers were believers,

Believers pray to their gods for help.

And so, the god noticed the other party.

"So…"

Rin thought of a word: "Divine Art?"

That's right, it's Divine Art!

Followers are believers, the Soul Corridor is the faith network, and Justeaze's Edict of Heaven is the central hub of faith.

"And the cost of casting Divine Art is the consumption of Spiritual Power."

Or, the maximum power that believers can withstand through the Soul Corridor.

"Spiritual Power…"

Listening to the word Rin spoke, Justeaze realized that it seemed to be exactly that.

Every follower who joins the Edict of Heaven network must pay a certain amount of remuneration to commission others.

The remuneration here is actually soul energy.

(To be continued.)

Chapter 145: Artificial Angels

"It seems very powerful."

Artoria only had a concept of souls, but she never imagined that soul energy could even be used as currency.

It can only be said that Artoria had limited experience.

"Justeaze's proposal is indeed very feasible."

Violet added, "Through this method, the soul energy within monsters can flow from bottom to top."

Souls are considered the hard currency for monsters to continue evolving after breaking through A-Rank.

"By sacrificing enough souls to the Voice of the World, one can exchange for a Unique Skill."

"Unique Skills are standard for Demon Lord Seeds."

In other words, A-Rank Demon Lord Seeds can collect souls and solidify magicules into their bodies in the form of Unique Skills, thereby evolving into a True Demon Lord.

As for higher awakened Demon Lord Seeds, the monsters under Rin's command have already pledged allegiance to him.

Theoretically, no matter how many souls they obtain, they cannot awaken into a True Demon Lord on their own.

However, if there truly was a Special A-Rank Demon Lord Seed who gathered enough souls, Rin would also help him advance to a True Demon Lord.

"An invisible hierarchy?"

As Rin's influence continues to expand, a class system will definitely need to be established.

And now, Justeaze's Edict of Heaven has given Rin a ready-made template.

The strong help the weak.

The weak support the strong.

This may not be the best hierarchical model, but it is the most suitable for the current Monster Nation.

"Then, where does the soul energy of weak monsters come from?"

Rin raised this question.

He hadn't paid attention to Goblins and wasn't clear about their soul strength.

But everyone knows that the soul is the most important thing for any life form.

Even a slight damage to the soul can have a huge impact on a monster.

Rin was not the kind of tyrant who liked to exploit his subjects.

In his eyes, Goblins, Wolf Clans, and Ogres were all his subjects, with no distinction between noble and lowly.

"Magicules!"

At this moment, Violet suddenly spoke, "In the Cardinal World, the soul is a container for magicules."

"Every bit of magicules actually contains a portion of soul energy."

The soul energy here is free-floating in the outside world, unowned souls.

When the magicules within a monster increase, they can obtain soul energy that cannot be absorbed.

"In a roundabout way, every monster is constantly acquiring new soul energy."

"It's just that due to their innate aptitude, they cannot collect them and can only let the soul energy return to this world."

Violet listed for Rin the maximum amount of soul energy that monsters of different levels could collect daily.

The quantity was very small and very turbid.

It belonged to the lowest quality of impure souls that could not be directly utilized at all.

"No wonder the difficulty of monsters evolving on their own is so great."

The accumulation of soul energy would lead to an increase in the upper limit of magicules, but this process was very slow.

The Ogre Clan had not given birth to a Kijin for a thousand years.

This was only from B-Rank to A-Rank.

From A-Rank to Special A-Rank, it was even more difficult than ascending to heaven…

The Orc Lord and Rimuru in the original work were prodigies who were born with Unique Skills, unrelated to the natural evolution of monsters.

Even Clayman was a creation of the Curse Lord, not a natural growth.

From this, it can be seen how inefficient this soul absorption is, and it is not as valuable as using it to support the Soul Guild.

"However, the number of monsters is still too small now."

"Once the population increases in the future, the effect of soul collection will truly manifest."

Violet: "So I suggest promoting this system within the faction."

"Let everyone join the soul network constructed by the Edict of Heaven."

Violet cannot purify souls, but Justeaze can…

"Please leave it to me."

Justeaze, like Artoria, also wanted to repay Rin for saving her life.

Now that she could be responsible for such important work, she was full of motivation.

"In that case, isn't Justeaze's workload a bit too much?"

Rin felt that if they really played it this way, Justeaze would probably become a 007, working overtime until she died.

So many monsters, and there would be more and more in the future.

Justeaze would definitely be too busy to handle it.

"Um, actually, I can…"

Artoria quietly raised her hand, just about to indicate that she could also help.

"Ah, about that."

However, Justeaze's reply was faster than hers: "How about those children from Einzbern?"

Artoria: "Huh?"

Silently, Artoria lowered the hand she had just raised.

"Them?"

Rin didn't pay attention to Artoria's troubles, he was thinking about Justeaze's suggestion: "It seems, it really can be done."

The artificial humans of Einzbern.

Rin was already struggling with what role they should play in the village.

Now it's settled, Soul Guild receptionists.

A group of white-haired, red-eyed, astonishingly beautiful service ladies, is there anything more wonderful than this?

As for the quantity…

No need to worry about this.

Justeaze brought out more than 400 deceased artificial humans from All the World's Evil.

Adding those from Einzbern, there were nearly 500 staff members.

If that's still not enough, Justeaze can use Einzbern's technology to continue manufacturing them.

Furthermore, Justeaze also had an idea.

That was to let her children evolve along her path and become an angel race under Rin, guiding souls that believed in him.

"Artificial humans, angels, artificial angels."

Rin had no reason to refuse: "Alright, let's do it."

"From now on, Justeaze, you will be the leader of the angel race."

"Oh, and Irisviel and Ilya."

Rin: "Among the artificial humans, they are the last two generations of works, and also the ones with the highest aptitude and potential."

"I will cultivate them well."

The aptitudes of the two girls were actually very close to Justeaze's.

Especially Ilya, she was the greatest masterpiece of Einzbern in a thousand years.

If Rin were to establish a church in the future,

Justeaze would be the Pope, Irisviel would be the Saintess, and Irisviel could become the High Priestess.

Then pull Artoria over to create the Temple Knights.

Of course, Rin was just thinking.

He wasn't interested in faith, churches, or anything like that, and had no interest in setting them up in another world.

(To be continued.)