Hero's Sword of the Lake of Truth

"What are you doing?"

In front of East Flower Capital, on the city wall's open space.

Diallo had just finished discussing the price of traveling together with a caravan boss. When she turned around, she saw Chu Ke squatting there, holding a pot of boiling water and pouring it on something.

"Me?" Chu Ke didn't turn his head, continuing to pour boiling water on his ant nest, "I'm leveling up."

[Unallocated Points +7893]

This ant nest is quite a haul.

"Leveling up?" Diallo curiously leaned her head over, her fluffy golden hair bunching up like a large golden jellyfish.

[Leveling up]

In this World, every profession starts at level zero. To increase a profession's level, one must either study relevant knowledge or challenge monsters of similar or higher levels. Different professions have different leveling requirements, but they generally fall into these two categories. After completing the requirements, one gains profession experience.

After the experience bar is filled, leveling up grants the host corresponding attribute bonuses and may even spark inspiration, leading to the creation and comprehension of additional skills.

For example, Diallo herself, the Paladin's leveling method is "eliminating evil." According to her understanding, this means doing good deeds, maintaining her upright character, and eliminating monsters that disrupt order, all of which can help her level up.

"You were able to use Appraisal to see my information so comprehensively, so your level shouldn't be low." Diallo was still curious, "Is the Proof of the King's leveling method really pouring boiling water on ants?"

"Simply put, it's about taking lives. Whether kings initiate wars or engage in commercial dumping, it ultimately leads to the impoverishment of the people, doesn't it?" Chu Ke made an excuse.

This was a play on words. His golden finger was indeed "taking lives," and the latter half of the sentence was an explanation of the king's actions. Looking at it together was just very misleading.

In fact, Chu Ke was quite conflicted about the attribute points.

If he ignored the fact that he was the Demon King, what he really wanted was a thrilling and exciting hero's adventure story filled with sweat and friendship!

This involved the issue of attributes. If the attributes were too high, there would be nothing fun about the journey to defeat the Demon King. He might as well go back to his main body and sleep. But if the values were not high enough, what if these heroes suddenly discovered his identity as the Demon King and caused him to fail in a ditch? His main body would definitely laugh at him mercilessly.

Chu Ke knew very well what kind of scumbag he was, but his main body seemed unwilling to admit it.

But the only hero he had seen so far was the Paladin in front of him, who had not yet grown up. What kind of values would be just right?

Fortunately, the appearance of the high-level Archmage Vega gave Chu Ke inspiration. Vega's highest value was magic power, with a terrifying value of 13,000 points.

And this was just a relatively late-stage profession value on the "mage" profession tree, not the so-called "graduation value."

So, as a hero or as a Demon King, all of his values should be two or three times higher than this value, right? Very good, the current goal is to stack strength to 100,000 first! Chu Ke confidently nodded and continued to pour boiling water on the ants.

The limitations of his thinking seemed to have prevented Chu Ke from realizing one thing: magic power, like health points, was not a basic value but was derived from basic data based on different profession algorithms.

"Time to set off?" Diallo was very reliable when doing these things and quickly arranged a series of issues along the route.

"OK." Chu Ke looked at the points exceeding 10,000 and contentedly put away the kettle, climbing onto the carriage next to him.

Vega had been waiting in the carriage for a long time. Seeing Chu Ke come up, she moved her position, deliberately distancing herself from Chu Ke.

Vega herself didn't know why, but she felt very uncomfortable whenever she saw Chu Ke talking to Diallo.

Wasteland, Demon King City.

In the magnificent hall, hand-stitched red carpets were laid out. At the very end of the carpet, a golden throne, fully five meters high, stood tall.

The decoration here was completely different from the gloomy image people imagined. The configuration of this castle alone was more like a royal city than the residence of human royalty.

In front of the throne, two tall figures stood facing each other.

"Didn't Plague and Domination come?" A demon, whose head was adorned with a jagged knight's helmet and whose body seemed to be casually cast from lava, asked the other.

The voice was unexpectedly steady, the kind of mature uncle voice that could deceive young girls.

The other being questioned had a gray, misty body, with a bizarre black crown perched askew on its head, each breath accompanied by sparks mixed with gray mist.

It shook its head, "They are still guarding the border, continuing to carry out the will of the previous Demon King."

"According to the prophecies on the human side, our new generation of king should have been born in the past few days... but I have not been able to find its trace."

"Simple." War took a step forward, crossing the visual boundary between subject and ruler with the throne.

Almost simultaneously, a huge gray mist scythe blocked War's path, "I advise you to put away your petty thoughts."

"Each generation of Demon Kings is becoming more and more powerful, and the previous Demon King was the strongest life in the last 3000 years, with attributes other than magic power reaching over a thousand."

"Are you looking for death?"

"Hmph, a mere thousand points, give me a little more time and I can reach it too." War was somewhat disdainful, but a trace of fear in his eyes betrayed him, the lingering embers of the previous Demon King's rule, "Death, don't pretend to be a loyal subject here, the fact that you didn't guard the border and appeared here like me is already a great act of treason."

This time, Death didn't say anything, but the scythe remained unretracted.

"." War was silent for a moment, "I understand, I will go to the Lake of Truth next, and strangle the Hero in advance."

"By the way, what exactly is the Hero's Sword?" Chu Ke asked curiously.

"Hmm? Are you the type of Hero who was 'summoned'?" Diallo asked.

After all, no one in the local area didn't know the story of the Hero's Sword.

Seeing Chu Ke nod, Diallo's eyes lit up, "Then in exchange, you have to tell me what your World is like!"

"The legendary Hero's Sword was forged by the first Hero using the power of the Goddesses, and it has two effects in total."

"First: Recognition. Only those who are morally noble, wholeheartedly dedicated to eradicating the Demon King and maintaining peace, and who have the support of the people, can pull it out."

Chu Ke nodded, okay pass, there's absolutely no way I could pull it out.

"Second: Hero's Power. This legendary sword can absorb the power of all previous Heroes, and through generations of changes, the power contained within will become stronger and stronger."

"By our generation, it contains the power of a full 20 generations of Heroes."

Chu Ke's eyes widened slightly.

In his heart, he crossed out the [single attribute of 100,000] plan and silently changed it to [single attribute of one million].

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