Chapter 290 – It's So Short

As always, the moment Alice's right hand gripped the dagger's hilt, the dagger's weapon information promptly appeared in her mind, allowing her to learn about the dagger's name and some of its basic abilities.

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[Weapon: Fragmented Demon King's Power – It's So Short]

[Quality: Law]

[Effect: Strength +7000, Constitution +5000, Speed +5000, Spirit +5000, Control +7000, Mana +7000]

[Additional Effect:

Silent Soul (Passive Skill.
Your soul will become immune to all forms of interference.
Anyone who attempts to forcibly break into your soul will receive a backlash);

Curse of Darkness (Passive Skill, Your affinity with dark-attributed mana is increased to MAX.
You deal additional damage to holy-type enemies);

Chaos General (Active Skill.
Summon anywhere between 1 to 50 Dark Guards to fight for you.
The Dark Guards' ability comes from the mana source the user has sealed in the weapon);

Demon King's Protection (Passive Skill.
Opponents weaker than the user cannot destroy or move this weapon.)]

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“Ha…?”

Alice was stunned when she saw the information that appeared in her mind.

On the one hand, Alice wondered why this dagger was given a name as strange as “It's So Short.” She got a very bad feeling from seeing this name because it was similar to Andusia's “This Is Wrong.”

On the other hand, Alice was amazed by the dagger's additional effects.
Not much needed to be said about “Demon King's Protection.” It was the same skill found on Grant's Radioactive Soul Stone, and it functioned to prevent others from stealing the weapon.

As for “Chaos General,” this was a rather interesting skill.
It would seem that she could call forth summons known as “Dark Guards” with the dagger.
Moreover, these Dark Guards' abilities corresponded to the mana source sealed within the dagger.
In other words, if she were to seal some of Luna's mana into the dagger, she could summon a Dark Guard with Luna's abilities.

Of course, this was only speculation on Alice's part.
Whether the Chaos General skill actually worked this way was something she would only know after experimenting with it.
However, she doubted that the dagger could copy the abilities of just anybody.
Otherwise, if a Demon King were to seal their own mana into the dagger, wouldn't it mean that the Demon King could summon a copy of themself to help them in battle?

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Hence, Alice didn't have much hope of sealing Andusia's and Luna's mana into the dagger.
Though, it would probably work on individuals like the Four Heavenly Kings.

Even so, Chaos General was already a considerably powerful ability.
It was also an incredibly useful ability for Alice since she still didn't wish to reveal her secret identity to others.
From now onward, she could summon the Dark Guards to carry out tasks on her behalf.

However, Alice quickly dismissed the thoughts in her mind as now wasn't the time to think about such matters.
Luna's shadow dragon was still waiting for her to leave the fountain.
If the shadow dragon kept eyeing the fountain without doing anything, it would easily attract the attention of others.

“Let's go, Andusia!”

Alice grabbed Andusia with her left hand and tucked the other party into her collar.
Then, she planted both feet on the bottom of the fountain, tightened her grip over the weapon called “It's So Short,” and jumped, launching herself out of the fountain.

Luna, who had been waiting outside for quite some time now, was relieved to see Alice jumping out of the fountain.
Then, after extending her arms and catching Alice, like a maid fleeing for her life with the young lady she served, Luna ran out of the park with Little Death running alongside her.
While doing so, Luna also controlled the shadow dragon to carry out the final phase of the plan.

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Upon receiving Luna's instructions, the shadow dragon promptly opened its maw to gather a large amount of dark mana.
Then, after creating a dense ball of dark mana, the shadow dragon spat it in the fountain's direction, the dark mana instantly disintegrating the man-made structure and erasing its existence from the park.

In the blink of an eye, the large fountain that occupied the center of the public park disappeared, and a huge crater took its place.
Now, even if others came to investigate the missing fountain afterward, all they'd find would be a large amount of residual dark mana left behind by the shadow dragon's attack.
Nobody would realize that Alice had retrieved a weapon made using the Demon King's Power's essence from this place.

As for why the Demon King would suddenly appear in Bang Bang City's public park and destroy the park's central fountain, Alice decided to leave it to this world's netizens to come up with a reason.
The netizens of this world were very imaginative.
In fact, the lack of clues might even stir netizens to start an enthusiastic discussion.

“Phew— That was quite an exciting experience,” Little Death exclaimed with a relaxed expression after running into a deserted alleyway.

Alice's group had already run quite some distance from the park, so they shouldn't arouse any suspicion even if they stopped running.
If Alice wasn't concerned over the park's surveillance cameras catching them, she would have had Luna and Little Death stop running as soon as they were out of the park.

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“I've canceled my Dragon's Shadow already.
I've also dismissed my magical doll after moving it to a location without cameras,” Luna said as she put Alice down.
Then, she grabbed a towel from her backpack and began wiping Alice's drenched body.

“That's good.
It's also quite fun to mess around like this once in a while,” Alice said, smiling.
This was probably the most rambunctious thing she had done since transmigrating to this world, and she couldn't help but admit that she had a good time.
She didn't feel the least bit anxious throughout this process.
“Anyway, we got what we came for.”

While saying so, Alice raised the weapon named “It's So Short.” Because Luna had caught her and fled with her in a princess carry after she jumped out of the fountain, Alice didn't get a chance to see what the weapon looked like until now.

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However, Alice's expression stiffened immediately after seeing the weapon's appearance.
Luna and Little Death also revealed strange expressions after seeing the weapon in Alice's hand.

This was because aside from the somewhat gorgeous hilt, the rest of the dagger was anything but.
More specifically, the part where the dagger's blade should have been was taken up by a small bulge instead…

Moreover, it wasn't enough that the “blade” was incredibly short.
Worse yet, this “blade” wasn't even flat or sharp like a blade should be.
Instead, it was a conical bulge with a smooth tip.
Rather than a dagger, this thing looked more like a butt plug stuck to a dagger's hilt instead…