In the mind s.p.a.ces, no system indicator, HP, status menus, or anything could inspect the power of residual souls or invaders. Any magic skills that occurred here depended on each soul's experience, creativity, and mentality.

However, the hosts of soul battles always had an advantage over the visitors as they could manipulate the room as they wished.

Misha's soul room glowed in red light as she locked the cube, barring anyone from interfering and blocking Lucien from leaving. Also, the bungalow huts transformed into sentry guns, pointing their muzzles at the slime kobold.

Lucien created swords, katanas, spears, and melee weapons out of his soul body. He picked up a long sword and slashed down, creating a sword wave at Misha.

Water in the pool rose up between the sword wave and Misha, forming a water wall. However, the water solidified in an instant, transforming into a wall of thick steel.

*BOOM*

The sword wave hit the wall, but it failed to destroy it.

The vulcan guns rotated as they spat fire. Thousands of bullet hailed onto Lucien.

Lucien dodged the bullets. He leapt on top of the wall to get an angle on Misha. Upon reaching on top of the steel wall, he found no one below.

By instinct, he noticed a strange glare from the room ceiling. When Lucien looked up, he saw thousands of eyes, watching him from above.

The eyes squinted as they launched another attack.

Blast!

Invisible cannonb.a.l.l.s were shot from each eye. With a thousand eyes combined, a thousand meteor rained upon Lucien.

One of the cannonb.a.l.l.s punctured through Lucien's liquid torso, creating a hole with the size of a bowling ball.

*AWOOOO*

Lucien howled as he transformed from a kobold into a 3-meter tall werewolf. His liquid body changed into a muscular humanoid with a grey wolf head. Like the color of his fur, his skin turned grey, which did not look like a slime anymore.

"If this is the limit of your creativity, I'll be disappointed," Misha's voice echoed in her mind s.p.a.ce as the ground reddened.

Everything in the room dissolved into thick red water, similar to blood. As for Misha, she transformed her soul into a giant eyeball, floating and carrying her soul core inside the body.

Lucien, the werewolf, kicked the ground and plunged at Misha.

*ZAAAA*

A tsunami of blood appeared out of nowhere and hit Lucien first, dragging him into the pool, which had now turned into a lake of corrosive acid.

Lucien could feel that his soul was melting, but he did not give up. He jumped up from the pool and looked around, searching for Misha's current location.

But the blood pool transformed into a hundred b.l.o.o.d.y hands. They reached for Lucien and grabbed his ankles, pulling him down toward the ground.

*SPLASH*

Lucien was dragged and sunk into the corrosive blood lake again. This time, hands and arms bound him under the water.

Because of the binding and restraining, the werewolf could not get out of the pool.

Misha floated in her mind s.p.a.ce, observing the invader in solemn.

This battle was already in her favor the moment Lucien decided to settle it at her home ground. From the very beginning, Lucien never had a chance.

Since she could have killed Lucien at any time, she wanted to extract information out of this knight by absorbing his memory. To do so, Misha had to digest him slowly, so his conscience could not influence her soul.

Using the room as a filter, Misha kept the pace steady, eating away Lucien's soul piece by piece.

Lucien also sensed what Misha was trying to do. He wanted to curse her, but the blood had already flooded his mouth, lung, and throat.

It took Misha an hour for Lucien's soul to be dissolved without a trace. All soul fragments of the knight merged with Misha's soul and her core.

She closed her eyes to inspect Lucien's memory.

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Lucien's story inside the cave was 90% accurate, but he did not disclose the latter part of his life and how he became Black Slime Knight.

The memory fragments of Lucien displayed the events after he met with the mysterious invaders.

Misha could see the entire event vividly. She could see that Lucien found a statue with Misha's appearance in the middle of the jungle when he was fleeing from human s.p.a.ces.h.i.+ps and robots.

Noticeably, the statue was not the same as her current avatar. She seemed to be a bit more mature as she looked to be in her late-20s. Meanwhile, the current Misha was still a teenager.

[Free me, and I shall save your Very Doge Kingdom and your people! Destroy this statue for me!]

Lucien could hear the mysterious voice, but he could not tell where it came from. He looked around in a panic.

[Hide behind my statue first. I have an idea.]

"O-Okay!"

Lucien could guess that the voice might come from the statue, which was believed to be the seal of a wicked being.

Soon, mechanical units, which had a symbol of Samael Clan, Joan's grandfather's clansmen, found Lucien and the statue. Without any attempt to negotiate, they pointed their rifles at Lucien and pulled the trigger.

*BOOM*

Lucien was killed on the spot, but the sh.e.l.ls also destroyed the statue.

After confirmed that the target had been eliminated, the pilots maneuvered their mechs away to find other local kobolds.

While the pilots were not paying attention to them, black gas leaked from the statue. The fume manifested into a liquid state, similar to a black slime, and they devoured Lucien's corpse.

Lucien's soul turned into a black slime as the mysterious being consumed his body and trapped his soul in the strange red room, the mind s.p.a.ce of this adult Misha.

By the time that Lucien came back to his senses, he found out that he had a new body of a kobold, his former fleshly body. Unfortunately, he had been transported to an unknown forest planet.

Beside him, he found a note.

[My name is Misha Bloominglily, the statue that saved you and your race from extinction. I resurrected you and your clansmen, but none of them have regained their conscience yet, so I'm taking them with me.]

[I've negotiated with G.o.ddess Lilith that we can avenge for your clan, but we have to go through her complicated procedure. If she shows up and offers you anything, take them.]

[If I don't return or find you within 10 years or so, contact Lilith and ask for my memory fragments. There should be 6 other fragments somewhere in her universe, but I can't sense them.]

[Be careful that a copied conscience of myself might impersonate me or claim my ident.i.ty, so pay attention if the one you meet might be an imposter or not. Remember that I'm the only one who knows about your resurrection and your death. Use this to verify my ident.i.ty.]

Read the notes, Lucien waited for his savior to return, alone on the unknown planet. Aside from his daily neccessity, such as eating, hunting, and sleeping, he did nothing but waiting for Misha.

Through nights and days, he kept watching the stars.

Through spring, summer, autumn, and winter, Lucien waited.

A year later, he did not give up.

5 Years then, he still waited.

10 Years, he braced the loneliness and waited.

50 Years afterward, he was always the same, waiting for Misha.

This "Misha" never came back. Moreover, Lucien did not know how he could contact this G.o.ddess Lilith, so the kobold with s.h.i.+ba Inu's face continued to wait like a loyal dog, watching the stars.

Although Lucien's body was resurrected, he grew old and withered through times.

Still, he did not give up waiting. Even when his health deteriorated from illnesses, he kept coming back to the location of his resurrection.

On the blink of death by illness, Lilith finally contacted him.

[I finally found you, little doge! Sorry about the delay, it takes me ages to locate you. I'll help you now!]

Lucien's consciousness went dark afterward.

As if he had slept for a night, he woke up again inside a white dimension with nothingness. However, he found out that he obtained a youthful body of a kobold, and many of his former comrades were by his side.

Then, a game system menu appeared before him along with an orb, [Unidentified Memory Fragment, No.2].

There was also a note from Lilith next to the orb.

[As promised, I've resurrected your clansmen and gave you a youthful body. I've splitted your conscience into 20,000 parts in exchange for my service, but you can see and feel what the other you do on various servers. Follow the instructions in the menu and hold on to the orb. Then, one day, you will be able to find your master.]

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Misha's avatar reopened her teary eyes. She gritted her teeth as he cursed at Lilith.

She realized that she had just killed an innocent.

"b.i.t.c.h!! DON'T LET ME SEE YOU FACE TO FACE!! I SWEAR, I'LL b.i.t.c.h-SLAP YOU UNTIL I BREAK ALL YOUR TEETH AND MAKE YOUR TEETHHOLES LARGER THAN YOUR WHORING p.u.s.s.y AND STUFF 26 CATTO DUCKU IN YOUR MOUTH!!"

It was too painful for Misha to experience the backstory of the murdered innocent kobold, who was just being loyal to his master. As a result, she snapped.

She was angry at Samael Clan for slaughtering the peaceful kobolds.

She was angry at the other Misha, who did not return for her loyal subordinate.

She was angry at Lilith, who manipulated them into fighting each other.

And Misha was angry at herself, who never tried to understand Lucien before she killed him.

Now, she regretted killing the honest Lucien, who did not know anything about the undercurrent conflicts or conspiracies.

Wailing uncontrollably, Misha sat on the beach and screamed.

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Misha came back to her senses an hour later. She found out that Shurka was hugging her, patting her head.

"Shurka?"

*Mew* (Took you long enough, banana Mis.h.!.+ What the h.e.l.l happened to you!?)

*Mii!* (Emo banana teenager is bad! You need to Nom-Nom more and grow bigger b.o.o.bs and tentacle d.i.c.ku!)

Moo nodded, "Agreed. Enlarging b.o.o.bs and d.i.c.ku is never wrong."

"…"

Looking at the comedian symbiosis eggcats and Moo, Misha forgot about her grief.

She snickered and buried her face onto Shurka's bosom.

"I think I had enough gaming for the day. I want to log out."

Shurka sighed, "We're in the middle of the siege event. We can't log out."

"… Ah, that b.i.t.c.h is s.c.r.e.w.i.n.g us yet again."

Misha's face reddened as she recalled that she cried in front of Moo and Shurka. She turned around to see the felionian, who might mock her for it.

However, she found out that the catto was busy with something else. Lucien was carving a stone statue of a kobold with s.h.i.+ba Inu head.

The statue had the same armor plate, a long sword, a katana, and the figure of Lucien.

"What are you doing, Moo?"

Moo grinned, "Just watch, nya! It's almost done."

"???"

Misha turned to Shurka, hoping to find an answer.

Shurka giggled and patted Misha's head.

"We got a special drop after you killed Lucien in your mind s.p.a.ce."

"A special drop?"

Moo laughed, "It's a soul card of Lucien. Just wait until I finish carving this, you'll know the effect, nya!"

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An hour later, Moo finished sculpting the entire statue and finalized the details.

Moo placed the new soul card on top of the statue's forehead like a Chinese zombie. After chanting and meowing some foreign words, he shouted.

"Now, watch this glorious catto performing a heroic skill, nya! HERO SUMMONING!"

Misha recalled that Moo had that summoner and hero subcla.s.s. It might relate to his weird skill.

A few seconds later, Misha could not call the skill weird or stupid anymore.

The statue flashed and gained colors. Within 10 seconds, the soul card merged with the icon, and it came to life.

The statue opened his eyes and looked around in confusion.

"Woof?"

He looked around and met his eyes with Misha's. However, he did not seem hostile anymore.

"Woof?"

The kobold tilted his head to the side as if he had a déjà vu, but he could not remember it.

Misha was surprised. She turned to Moo, "Did you just resurrect him!?"

Moo laughed, "Of course! As long as I have a soul card, I can resurrect anyone!"

Misha wiped her tears. She turned to Lucien and planned to apologize for killing him, but the doge's response was weird.

"Do I know you?" Asked Lucien.

Misha frowned, "Don't you remember that we've just fought? I killed you."

"Wow! Much false! This invincible doge never loses! What are you, a liar?"

She glanced at Lucien's power indicator again. It was still 15,000, but it now had a green name instead of red.

"Do you remember anything about the Very Doge Kingdom?"

"Of course! This doge is an elite knight from the proud Very Doge Empire!"

"Then, do you recall what killed you?"

"Weird flying metals indeed killed me, but I was resurrected by a great master!"

"Who is your master?"

"The greatest catto, Moo Moomoon!"

"…"

Something was terribly wrong with this version of Lucien. His back story was odd.

"I have a long nightmare, woof! I dreamt that I fought a dragon b.i.t.c.h, and she cheated! That mutt actually splashed me with some sort of s.e.m.e.n and killed me. Then, she drowned me to death again in a b.l.o.o.d.y pool! Well, very nightmare, much exaggeration, 10/10 for scaring the h.e.l.l out of me! Hahaha, woof!"

"…"

Misha was speechless. Wasn't Lucien's master the other Misha?

Lucien looked around and found Moo.

When he saw Moo's face, he knelt and performed a knight's greetings while his tail was wiggling like a puppy.

"Lucien greets Master Moo Moomoon!"

Misha and Shurka had a poker face expression. They looked at Moo, who had a smug smile.

"NYAHAHAHA! It feels good having dog underlings!" The catto did not hide his evil grin.

Looking at Moo, for some reason, Misha wanted to murder this perverted felionian.

"WHY THE h.e.l.l DID I CRY FOR THIS STUPID DOGE!? GIVE ME BACK MY FEELING!!"