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After seeing these new Random Skill Scrolls, I didn’t feel the same excitement I once would have. Perhaps it was because I wanted to focus on mastering my existing skills for now. Having more would be somewhat pointless—there were few new abilities at such low levels that could offer me anything meaningful. Still, I could use them as materials for my Familiars or as gifts.

My past self would probably slap me for thinking that. I used to be obsessed with leveling every skill. After all, it was all I had. But now my plate was already overflowing with far more. I needed to focus on mastering what I already possessed before chasing after things I couldn’t properly handle.

Several skills had been neglected simply because I was too busy juggling everything else: my blood skill, the circuit skills, the fighter-type skills, and so much more.

What would I even gain from these random new ones anyway? Probably something like "Divine Beast Fire Claw" or "Divine Beast Beam"—abilities I could already perform. Besides, I had far more interesting Skill Scrolls saved, such as this absolute monster:

[Demonic Skill Evolution Scroll: Chimeric Abyssal Demonic Beast Titan Soul (SS Grade)] x1

I also had three more Skill Fusion Tickets, which seemed far more promising than low-level random skills that would only waste my time. Today, I will finally resume training the rest in earnest.

This Demonic Skill Evolution Scroll, though... where could I even use it? It would evolve any chosen skill into something far more monstrous.

The Chimeric Abyssal Demonic Beast Titan was the monster we had fought in the dungeon when the Dungeon God attacked us and unleashed the true demons. The quests from that catastrophe had rewarded me with countless insane treasures, and this scroll was one of them.

Yet every time I looked at these items, the pain of losing Curse and Bark pierced my heart. Because of that, I had been ignoring them most of the time.

But maybe that wasn’t what those two would have wanted for me.

If anything, they would have been happy to see me use these gifts to grow stronger. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Not yet though. For now, I would focus on Beelzebub’s items.

"Alright, so for Beelzie, what’s best?" I wondered. "Of course—Spirit Orbs and Soul Orbs, right? Just for you, I’m adding... thirty of those Divine Spirit Soul Orbs. How about it?"

"Really?!" he exclaimed, his voice lighting up with excitement.

"I’ll also add a hundred of the others..." I nodded. "We’ll include Spirit Heart Crystals from all the monsters we’ve faced, including the divine beasts. Fifty from each—frozen forest, burning forest, and the divine beasts of sea and forest."

"Ooohhh!"

Afterward, Glutton opened his maw and vomited Arachne’s corpse. I had only used part of her exoskeleton before, but the rest remained untouched. A huge crystal of divine power had even begun growing over her.

"Arachne..." Beelzebub sighed as he gazed at her body. "You didn’t have to go this far..."

She had become monstrously mutated, gigantic in size after allowing Lolth to descend upon her and twist her into an abomination to face my parents.

"Let’s continue," I sighed. "I’ll add... one of these Crystalized Blessings of the Wandering God and... a Dungeon Core! And of course... Armageddon!"

"Okay."

Armageddon appeared by my side, opening a blazing portal and dropping a massive pile of divine materials and divine monster corpses. The materials were dark and demonic in nature—very rare, though they had begun growing in certain areas of her divine realm.

"Oooh! So even you’re helping me? Perhaps once I evolve, you’ll finally stop forgetting who I am!" Beelzebub said.

"Huh?" Armageddon looked at him. "Who are you?"

"Ugh..." Beelzebub groaned, facepalming.

"Hahaha, she’s messing with you," I said. "She’s like that—she enjoys acting important and above everyone else. She definitely remembers you."

"I don’t know who this moth is," she said coldly.

"Ugh..." Beelzebub looked even more hurt.

I sighed and quickly pushed her aside. "Alright, let’s begin! Beelzebub, I’m going to do everything I can to evolve you into the strongest Demon possible. Get ready!"

Beelzebub nodded, floating in the center of the formation I had prepared for his evolution. "Very well. Bring it on!"

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In the depths of the Burning Forest Dungeon, the corrupted Blazing Fire Spirit Tree glitched violently as dark, dimensional energies wove through it, tearing apart the fabric of space.

Inside the tree, within a vast red-and-purple palace forged from metallic wood and burning miasma, a corrupted divine spirit queen sat upon her throne, watching the distortion unfold.

"T-This is...?"

Her eyes widened. Crystallized miasma and curses covered her face, dark divine power leaking from her body. Her master had blessed her with this curse to push her evolution even further.

But now, yet another "master" had decided to send her aid.

The space shattered. A tall figure stepped out of the broken core, floating in midair. It was a strange being made of white glass with an empty face that displayed only glowing stars. Long hair made of nebula-like energy flowed behind it. It wore a blue cloak woven from starlight and dimensional forces, glaring at her with emptiness in its ever-flowing, star-filled eyes.

"You must be the Blazing Fire Spirit Tree of the Burning Forest Dungeon, correct?"

"That’s right. And you must be...?"

"I was sent by my master, the Ruler of Dungeons, to aid you in eliminating this threat."

"You mean that girl... I’ve just heard about her."

"She has already taken over six Dungeon Cores. That is unforgivable. Master was playing nice with her because he found her interesting... but now, not only has she done that—she has even dared to create a Dungeon God herself."

"...!"

"According to the alliance of Evil Gods, and because Master owes a favor to yours, we will cooperate to eliminate this Error before it disrupts our masters’ plans, which align with one another."

"Yes, master... she’s here after all, watching."

"Hm?"

The entity looked toward the ceiling, noticing a dark presence possessing the Blazing Fire Spirit Tree. It resembled a bizarre fusion between a dragon and an insect—or perhaps a spider—but its silhouette was too strange and too dark to see clearly.

"I see... Well, this will make things easier."

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