The Tale of Hero Alice's Social Death - Chapter 233

Chapter 233 – Who’d Dare Walk Around With This Thing?
It was fortunate that nobody else was in the cemetery. Otherwise, Alice felt that she would suffer instant social death if she were seen holding this thing in her hand.

“Are you telling me that this thing is your weapon?” Alice asked with gritted teeth as she turned to look at Andusia. Although she had never used such a thing in her life, the internet existed in this world and on Earth. So, she had naturally seen this thing before.

“Cough, cough. I admit that it looks a lot like an item a woman would use in private. However, in reality, it is a terribly misshapen club,” Andusia said awkwardly.

Andusia naturally knew that her creation looked strange. However, it was a fact that this weapon was something forged using the Demon King’s Power and surpassed weapons at the Artifact grade. Hence, thinking Alice might have a use for it, she decided to inform Alice about the weapon’s existence.

Alice was also aware of this point. If Andusia had really found her creation embarrassing, she could simply keep quiet about it. Since Andusia had chosen to reveal this weapon’s existence regardless of the consequences to her reputation, it meant that she truly believed that this weapon could be useful to Alice.

However, the problem was that Alice was the one holding the weapon right now. Andusia might be feeling humiliated now, but the one to get humiliated afterward would be Alice.

“Do all of you Demon Kings like to use clubs?” Alice uttered a powerless complaint. The memory of waking up to see Luna riding on top of her while wielding a massive spiked club was still fresh in her mind even now. “But you sure are a forging genius to be able to turn a club into this…thing.”

“It wasn’t my choice. I originally wanted to make a large spiked club. However, I realized halfway through that the Demon King’s Power’s essence I extracted wasn’t enough to support the creation of such a large weapon,” Andusia said, trying to clear her name. “So, I had no other choice but to reduce the size of the club and its spikes. However, I accidentally went a little too far, and the club ended up as this small stick with bumps on it…”

“And you still had the gall to give this deformed club to your close friend’s descendants? Did they not treat you as a pervert?”

Alice swung the stick a few times, finding that, despite the weapon’s somewhat bad…no, terrible shape, it felt surprisingly sturdy. It definitely wasn’t a lightweight product made using plastic.

“Your friend’s descendants are really something as well to bury this thing with your friend. I bet they must have also thought that this thing looked too strange to keep at home, so they just decided to treat it as a burial item.”

While complaining about Andusia’s strange weapon, Alice also took a moment to inspect the weapon information displayed in her mind.

…

[Weapon: Incomplete Demon King’s Power – This Is Wrong]

[Quality: Law]

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

[Additional Effect:

Silent Soul (Passive Skill. Your soul will not be disturbed in any way. Any magic that tries to target your soul will be countered);

Curse of Darkness (Passive Skill. Your affinity with the dark element is maxed, and you will deal additional damage to holy-attributed enemies);

Earthshaking Strike (Active Skill. Upon use, releases a dark-attributed ground-based attack, sinking your opponent’s soul into the ground forever.)]

…

Since the entire weapon was made using the Demon King’s Power’s essence, her right hand simply named it “Incomplete Demon King’s Power.” As for the name “This Is Wrong” that came after that, it was naturally the name Andusia had mistakenly given to the weapon.

After seeing the weapon’s appearance, Alice could fully empathize with Andusia. Anyone would probably feel embarrassed and angry if their fiendish spiked club ended up as a female masturbation product.

“But the shape of this weapon is still too much…”

Alice might have understood how this weapon ended up with its shape and name, but she really couldn’t bring herself to meet with others while holding this stick in her hand.

If she were to get caught using panties as a weapon, she would understandably suffer social death immediately. However, if others merely caught her carrying a sack of panties, she could still lie her way out of the situation, saying that they were her spares. Although people would still look at her strangely for carrying so many spare panties, it wasn’t the end of the world.

However, it was a completely different story for this stick. Just getting caught carrying this thing around in public would result in her social death, let alone wielding it as a weapon. After all, there was no way any normal person would carry a sex toy around in public.

Whether it was Alice’s identity as the Hero or the Gryffin Princess, both were hot gossip topics for people. If she got seen carrying this stick in public, news of it would instantly spread across the entire human realm. Hence, she absolutely could not let others see her carrying it.

“Is there a way to recast this thing?” Alice asked while using Mind Search to scan the surroundings again. Then, after ensuring that nobody was nearby or approaching the cemetery, she continued, “So long as this thing retains this appearance, I will never be able to have peace of mind. I’ll have to live in constant fear of someone catching me with this thing in hand.”

“It is possible to recast it. I also thought of recasting it and giving it a new appearance initially. However, before I could put my plan into practice, the war officially began,” Andusia said, shrugging. “You must know that only one Demon King has ever succeeded in conquering the human realm while everyone else failed. I couldn’t guarantee whether I could return alive, so I had no choice but to suck it up and give this thing to my friend’s descendants.”

“You must have been under a lot of pressure when you handed this thing to them,” Alice said, laughing at Andusia. “How do I recast it, then? Do I need to get the help of the dwarves? Since this thing is forged from the Demon King’s Power’s essence, I doubt it can be recast using normal methods.”

“Naturally. The dwarves’ forging skills might be amazing, but even the best among them can barely create an Artifact by chance. It’s impossible for them to safely recast a weapon above the Artifact rank. Their flames won’t even be able to melt this weapon, let alone recasting it,” Andusia said proudly. “You’d need to use the power of numerous taboos to recast it. So, aside from us Demon Kings and Heroes, nobody else can do it.”

The human and demon realms might have some powerful individuals capable of casting taboos, but these people would run out of mana after one or two casts. Meanwhile, Andusia had mentioned that her weapon required numerous taboos to recast. So, this was indeed a job that only Heroes and Demon Kings could accomplish.

“Which taboos are needed?” Alice asked as she stuffed the stick into her strategic pouch. Thankfully, there were sufficient panties inside the pouch to bury the stick completely. So, it wasn’t possible to see the stick’s shape from outside the pouch.

However, the stick was somewhat long, and it barely fit inside the pouch. So, Alice couldn’t help but consider whether she should switch to a bigger pouch afterward.

“Many of those taboos were left behind by my predecessors, and they were specially designed to target the Demon King’s Power. So, there is no way you will find them in the human realm,” Andusia said, shaking her head. “Typically, you’ll find the books for those taboos hidden in the residence of the previous generation’s Demon King. So, you’ll have to head to the demon realm and visit the previous generation’s Demon King’s residence.”

Learning a taboo required the assistance of the taboo’s magic book. Hence, Andusia couldn’t pass on the taboos to Alice even if she knew them. Alice would have to search for those books if she wanted to learn those taboos.

“This is troublesome…”

Alice scratched her head. Grant was the previous generation’s Demon King, and Alice naturally knew where his residence was. It was none other than the abandoned Demon King City. However, Alice didn’t find any taboo books when she previously visited the castle in the city. This must mean that there was a hidden room inside the castle.

Although it was troublesome, Alice still decided to visit the demon realm. After all, Andusia had already said that those taboos were created specifically to target the Demon King’s Power. In other words, these taboos could potentially be used to destroy the Demon King’s Power.

It also made sense that the Demon Kings were the ones to have developed a countermeasure to the Demon King’s Power. They had spent the most time with the Demon King’s Power, so it was only natural that they were very familiar with it.