"Eliminating them outright would be such a waste."
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She tapped her chin with her little finger and suggested brightly:
"How about..."
"We completely restrain them, sever their magical connection to the Water-Mirror Demon, then use a Shrinking Charm to make them tiny and seal them in a bottle, just like the golems they gave us at the start of the test."
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"That way, you'd basically have two powerful copies you could let out to fight whenever you wanted, wouldn't you?"
Heh.
"Actually, this sounds like a place where you could mass-produce 'Replicants.' If that Water-Mirror Demon can make copies indefinitely, and those copies retain their magic after leaving, then maybe this underground tomb maze could become a factory for producing elite fighters?"
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"For example, if you tossed Frieren in here and waited a while, you'd end up with thousands upon thousands of perfect copies of her. I'm sure that would be a very interesting sight, wouldn't it?"
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Annie didn't know whether it would be interesting, but she did know that if someone really made hundreds or thousands of copies of Frieren, they could probably walk all over this world.
At that point, forget sweeping across the world—even if the Demon King were resurrected a hundred times, he wouldn't stand a chance!
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"Whoa!"
At Ilena's words, her violet eyes lit up at once. She had clearly caught on to what the troublesome little girl was thinking, and let out an exclamation.
"What a great idea!"
"Teacher Annie!"
"Although it seems the rules prevent it from copying outsiders like us, and there's something a little weird about the copies, objectively speaking, that copy of Frieren is still pretty strong!"
"I don't think Fern and Frieren could necessarily beat her together!"
"If we really could get hundreds