Chapter 6: Hero Saving the Beauty?

Beside Dolores’s level display, a red bat-shaped exclamation mark had appeared.

【Debuff: Sealing the Blood Demon God】

???

Sealing the Blood Demon God?

Where was it sealed?

Don’t tell me it’s sealed inside her body?!

Dolores immediately began checking herself all over.

After searching for a long time, she still couldn’t find any sealing magic circles or strange markings on her body.

So where exactly was the seal?

This is bad.

Now the spider really has disappeared.

After searching several more times without results, she shifted her attention to the line beneath it.

【Due to suppressing the Demon God, Dolores gains 90% less experience】

How much?!

Ninety percent?!

No wonder she only gained one level after grinding so many monsters.

The monsters summoned by the Demon God already gave half experience.

Then this debuff reduced the remaining amount by another ninety percent.

In total, she had to kill twenty monsters just to equal the experience of one normal monster.

That was basically a fifty-percent-off clearance sale.

How the hell was this playable?

If a game from her previous life pulled something like this, she’d create a dozen alternate accounts just to bury it in negative reviews.

Wait.

The description specifically said Dolores gained less experience.

What about Xia?

She switched back to Xia’s interface to check the level display.

Xia and Dolores shared the same experience and level.

Both were level two.

Thankfully, Xia didn’t have this debuff.

Thank god…

Thank my ass!

Wasn’t this game system basically forcing her to level using her original body?

But with Xia’s pathetic little body, who could he even beat?

So here was the problem.

If she wanted to avoid the experience penalty, she couldn’t transform.

But without transforming, she couldn’t beat monsters and therefore couldn’t gain experience.

Yet if she wanted to beat monsters, she had to transform.

And the moment she transformed, she suffered the experience penalty…

Wasn’t this an endless loop?

You should smile while playing games…

Smile my ass!

Calm down.

Calm down…

At the very least, she had unlocked the weapon interface, right?

Maybe there’d be something insane like ten-times experience bonuses inside?

Dolores carefully read through the descriptions.

Although it wasn’t the ten-times experience bonus she had fantasized about, she still let out a huge sigh of relief.

First of all, the best news was that she finally discovered where the Blood Demon God had been sealed.

It turned out to be sealed inside this sword.

Suddenly this sword feels really dangerous.

Should she just throw it away?

Dolores shook her head.

If she threw the sword away, she wouldn’t have any weapon left.

When she first learned this information, she really had almost tossed it aside.

This thing was way too dangerous.

Holding it felt like clutching a ticking time bomb.

Who knew when the Demon God might suddenly break through the seal and explode her apart?

Fortunately, the seal also followed game mechanics.

She could replenish the sword with mana to reinforce the seal.

As long as there was sufficient mana, the Demon God couldn’t break free.

And unexpectedly, there was also a bonus.

As the seal weakened, she could borrow power from the Demon God.

The weaker the seal became, the stronger the borrowed abilities would be.

It was basically like using a credit card.

She could overdraw the seal in exchange for power.

But the more she unsealed, the more mana would later be required to recharge it.

And if she overdid it…

The Demon God inside would come to collect the debt.

Directly with her life.

Perhaps she could borrow the Demon God’s power and use her original body to level up?

Secondly, there was the sword’s own system.

She already knew the sword’s name.

Castillo.

It had once been a mythical-grade holy sword that accompanied the Silver Radiance Sword Princess through countless battles.

During the sealing of the Blood Demon God, it exhausted all its power and fell into a damaged state.

Now the sword could gradually improve in quality as her level increased.

From Damaged to Common.

Then Rare, Epic, Legendary…

And finally back to Mythical rank.

Although the road sounded ridiculously long, at least it could eventually return to its former peak.

Switching back to Xia’s side, the weapon transformed into a wand.

The wand’s name was Belmont.

It was a name she barely remembered hearing in the game.

According to the description, this wand was the holy staff of the Night Witch.

Like Castillo, it was named after its owner’s surname.

The holy staff functioned almost identically to the holy sword and could also increase in quality.

However, the Night Witch was barely mentioned in the game.

Apparently she was a figure on the same level as the Silver Radiance Sword Princess.

One was the God of Swords.

The other was the God of Magic.

Aside from that, Dolores knew absolutely nothing about her.

The Silver Radiance Sword Princess even had multiple chapters dedicated to her statues standing throughout the academy.

Meanwhile, the title “Night Witch” barely appeared more than twice.

If someone skipped through the story too quickly, they might never even realize such a character existed.

Whatever.

Who cared who she was?

At least now she knew the wand’s name.

Once her mana was depleted, she could simply recite the name and transform back.

The journey back was incredibly relaxing.

Dolores felt like someone about to get off work after finishing all their tasks.

So comfy~

It was already deep into the night.

There were far fewer guards patrolling the streets than when she first left.

She quickly bypassed the patrols and returned near the inn.

Perfect.

Her mana had just run out completely.

Now all she needed to do was climb over this wall and quietly scale up to the third floor to sneak back into her room.

“Captain… you’ve had too much to drink.”

“Nonsense! Who… who’s drunk?!”

The armored squad leader shoved away the companion supporting him and staggered several steps, nearly crashing into the nearby wall.

He steadied himself and loudly slapped his breastplate, producing metallic clangs.

“I’m telling you… those lousy monsters…”

“I… I can take on ten of them!”

After saying that, his body swayed again, and he grabbed his companion’s shoulder with his left arm to avoid falling over.

“…Even twenty, thirty of them…”

“No matter how many come… I’ll beat…”

“Captain, I’ll take you back now.”

His companion looked equally drunk.

The two men leaned against each other while wobbling down the street in an S-shaped path.

Seeing them heading directly toward her, Dolores felt numb inside.

Why did she always run into people at the worst possible moments?

“You’re… you’re a student from Thorn Academy…”

The squad leader raised his head upon seeing Dolores and pointed at her with his right hand.

“A bunch of students who haven’t even fully grown yet…”

“I don’t accept it!”

“Why can you all… defeat monsters so easily…”

“If you’ve got guts… then spar with me!”

This is bad.

The guy’s drunk out of his mind.

Dolores considered simply climbing over the wall right in front of them.

At this point, they were so drunk they probably wouldn’t remember any of this tomorrow anyway.

“Don’t go… don’t go…”

“Captain, stop talking already.”

“They did come to help us after all…”

“Hm? Wait, I don’t think I’ve seen you before?”

The companion supporting the captain walked closer, trying to get a better look at the girl before him.

“There’s a pink-haired one, a brown-haired one, and a black-haired one…”

“But I’ve never seen a white-haired one like you.”

Seriously?

Are you actually drunk?

Why are you still this sharp after drinking?

No good.

She needed to run immediately.

Dolores stepped back half a pace and turned to flee.

Unexpectedly, the drunken squad leader suddenly let go of his companion, rushed forward in one step, and blocked her path with his sword.

“You’re not leaving!”

“Tonight… tonight I’m definitely sparring with you!”

Holy crap, he even drew his sword?!

Dolores tried moving around him, but the man stubbornly refused to let her pass.

Come on.

She seriously didn’t want to cause trouble here.

Couldn’t he just let her leave?

“Take this!”

The squad leader directly charged at Dolores.

Helpless, she prepared to draw her sword and block.

But in the next second, a pink figure descended from above and landed in front of her.

“Mister, drawing your sword against a girl is very rude, you know~”