Chapter 112: The Clone's Concerns

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 400,000 (+4,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 500,000 (+7,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 1,000,000 (+10,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 700, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -Appraisal -Evil gaze -Strengthen -Leap -Basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia -Slime Soul Diversion -Slime technique: Split -Tarot Emperor -Master of The Dragon King, Atlas]

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“How did it went? You succeed?” Edraele asked to the shadow that just entered the Redfall mercenary guild guildmaster’s room.

“Does my cover that obvious? It seems like everyone could sense my stealth now, I start to lose my confidence here,” said Alfred with a wry smile as he appears from the shadows.

“If you use stealth seriously, I won’t be able to sense you at all, Alfred. What happened? You look distracted,” asked Peter as he saw Alfred’s face is kinda pale.

“I’ve infiltrated their legation that had suddenly appeared from nowhere, and got caught immediately when I enter that white-haired man’s office,” Alfred couldn’t help but show another wry smile as he remembers what just happened.

“You got caught?” (Sen)

“Yea,” (Alfred)

“How did you flee?” (Sen)

“They let me go,” (Alfred)

“So much for the one who called ‘The Shadow’,” Peter said with a shrug.

“Shut it. You can try to infiltrate their legation yourself, I’ll give you the guildmaster position if you can enter it without getting caught,” (Alfred)

“I humbly reject. If the one called ‘The Shadow’ that experts on infiltrating and assassinating couldn’t infiltrate the legation, let alone me,” (Peter)

“But did you manage to obtain the information we need?” (Sen)

“I do manage to have a conversation with the white-haired guy, but even though I asked all of the questions we need, I didn’t get any information we’re searching for,” Alfred shook his head.

“I see… That guy and his empire, should we discuss this with the old man?” (Peter)

“We do. Since if it turns out that they’ll be hindering our movement and our goal. We’re going to need to eliminate them,” (Alfred)

“Okay then. By the way, our position in the capital is in danger, you know?” (Peter)

“Danger?” (Alfred)

“Yea. The Potterland’s mercenary guild had come and made their own guild inside the capital as their embassy’s orders. The mercenary that is said to walk according to the way of swords, The Musin society,”

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“Is it wise to let him go, my lord?” Aquila asked Slime that is staring at the scenery outside with a strange smile.

“I wonder… What do you think, Aquila? Did we lose anything here by letting him go?” Said Slime without turning his head towards Aquila.

“…Nothing…” (Aquila)

“That’s right. Even though I answer all of his questions, I only answer some things that don’t even matter whether he knows it or not. Even though we’ve just appeared at the map of the continent, all countries are evaluating us, and even though we’ve shown them a part of our strength, it’s not even something surprising back at our empire. But yet, all of them got cautious because of it,” (Slime)

“Indeed…” (Aquila)

“It’s because our strength is different. And even though they don’t have any information about us, we’ve lots of information about them. This is what happens between a strong country and a weak one, if we infiltrate their palace, with just punishing the culprit, it won’t ruin our ties with their kingdom. But if the information about there is someone that is also an important figure of their kingdom got caught infiltrating our legation, it could become a spark of war. As we need to ask compensation again to their kingdom to show them that we’re not weaklings and wage war if they reject,” (Slime)

“Does that guy before someone important?” (Aquila)

“Yes, he is, Aquila. He’s one of the heroes of this kingdom and one of the heroes that we need to nurture and strengthen,” (Slime)

Looking at the scenery outside the window, Slime smiled.

“Teaching and guiding the heroes. It’s one of our missions, after all,” (Slime)

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This world where Oz got summoned to is called Terra, and the world is divided by five continents. The Eastaria continent on the east, the Westfalia continent on the west, Southfilia continent on the south, Northalia continent on the north, and the largest continent, the Ablux continent in the middle.

Unlike earth, this world didn’t have any world map that has every detail about the world. Because of that reason, Oz sent the ‘Jack of All Trades’ secret order together with some of his clones to find information about the unknown continents and to complete his world map.

“With Ogre to the west, Orc to the south, Druid to the east, and Goblin to the north. It’s should be enough. Even if it’s not enough, we’ll back them up immediately…” (Slime Oz)

Knock! Knock!

“My lord, I’m informed that you’ve summoned me to the imperial castle,” Gareth’s voice appears from outside the door.

“Oh! Gareth! Come in! Indeed, I’ve called you!” (Slime Oz)

The door opened, and a gorgeous man with long white hair entered the room clad in his black armor and his black greatsword.

“What a pretty face you have there, Gareth,” (Slime Oz)

“Please don’t tease me, my lord. Can you tell me what do you summon me here for?” (Gareth)

“Why rush, Gareth? I heard that you’re getting close to one of your generals. If my source is not wrong, she’s an Arachne, right? A race that rules the spiders and called the queen of the undead, (Slime Oz)

“Indeed… Since obtaining the ability to transform into a human, we start to have emotions and stuff. It’s a great thing that my lord has ordered the construction of the academy and the schools that teaches about feelings too. We started to learn and comprehend what feelings we are having because of that,” (Gareth)

“Sigh… You’re no fun. I called you here because I want to put the undead to the front lines once more, we’re going to wage a war, Gareth,” (Slime Oz)

“With who? The humans?” (Gareth)

“No, the time to wage war with the humans haven’t come yet. We need to give some damage to our other enemy first before dealing with them. We’ve now three hell’s gate in our possession, while because we didn’t know to which part of the demon realm the hell’s gate will teleport us, so we’re going to send only your summoned undead there,” (Slime Oz)

“Gather your summoners in three days, we’re going to swarm the demon realm with the undead. They might think that they’re in the position where they’re the only one who can attack us, so let’s show them who’s the hunter and who’s the prey,” Slime Oz said with a sinister smile.

(Poor demons. When they’re like this, they do resemble each other, huh. Well, they’re actually summoned from the same origin… I wonder how’s my lord’s undead clone doing at the undead world…) (Gareth)

“My lord. Is my lord’s undead clone doing fine at the undead world?” (Gareth)

“Hm? Lich, huh. He’s fine and kicking. I think it’s almost time for him to battle with the undead dragon king that rules the undead world. In two weeks? Three weeks? Well, since our real body is currently in a deep slumber, our connection with each other had got cut out. It’s as if we’ve really become an independent individual,” Slime Oz said with a shrug.

“Then how do you know that my lord’s undead clone is all right?” (Gareth)

“Hm. Then, Gareth. Could you imagine him, no, we, Ren Arken’s clones lose?” (Slime Oz)

“I-I can’t,” (Gareth)

“Then that’s fine, right? Just have faith with your master, would you?” (Slime Oz)

Slime Oz realizes that from day to day, without the real body’s presence, each of his clones had become independent individuals that could move without an instruction. Even that day, there is a time where their opinions turn out to be different from each other.

To avoid other clones to have the same doubts and concerns with him, Slime Oz took the role of the substitute of the real Oz. They’re clones, clones are just an imitation and originate from magic or skill. Despite having the same memories, they have different personalities, but each of them knows that the soul they possess is just a fragment of their real body, and despite having emotions and desires like a normal individual, they’re just a couple of fakes.

(Make a good distance, don’t get attached, don’t make people attached. You’re just a clone…) (Slime Oz)

Thinking and ordering himself to not get too attached is already like a spell and a routine for Slime Oz.

(Hypothetically speaking, a skill or magic should have been deactivated if their caster lost their consciousness and lose focus since the source of mana will get cut out. But in our case, we could still exist in this world without having any problems while the real body is unconscious…) (Slime Oz)

“My lord?” (Gareth)

Even Gareth realized our difference. He used to call me ‘Master’ and now he calls me ‘My lord’.

“Nothing, Gareth. I’m just thinking about something that I will never find the answer,” (Slime Oz)

(I wonder until when will this go on…) (Slime Oz)