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After fiddling with the Four Beasts Cauldron for a while, neither Sam nor anyone else could find anything particularly strange about it. In the end, he put it away.
I'll let the King of Wisdom study it later, he decided silently.
With that thought, Sam went ahead and claimed everything he still hadn't received: the ability Retainer, the item Senzu Bean Cultivation Manual, the Devil Fruit Ope Ope no Mi, and the auxiliary system King of Wisdom.
Retainer allowed Sam to acknowledge someone and bring them into his retainer group, granting them a portion of his power or one or more abilities.
Of course, he wouldn't lose those powers himself. And the strength he granted couldn't be too high, only scaled to the recipient's physical capacity.
Otherwise, if their body couldn't handle it, they'd literally explode and die.
Abilities were a different matter. There was no hard limit there, since what he granted were only beginner-level abilities. The person would have to train and improve them on their own.
Give something, get something in return. The payoff was that all the abilities and power the retainer possessed would be fed back to Sam, allowing him to gain them as well.
In other words, even if Sam were an idiot, he could still grow stronger endlessly through this ability.
After all, the stronger and more numerous his retainers became, the more terrifying the feedback power he'd receive.
As for the Senzu Bean Cultivation Manual, there wasn't much to explain. Anyone who'd watched Dragon Ball knew just how absurd Senzu Beans were.
But even Korin had said they were incredibly hard to cultivate. He'd spent hundreds of years growing them and still only managed a small amount. Later on, during the Z Fighters' battles, there often weren't enough Senzu Beans to go around.
This manual was essentially an experience guide that shortened growth cycles, increased survival rates, and boosted yields. Long story short, it was insanely good.
Unfortunately, Sam didn't have any Senzu Bean seeds.
The King of Wisdom, on the other hand, was Rimuru Tempest's strongest cheat. It evolved from the Sage, an existence basically equivalent to an interdimensional Baidu Encyclopedia.
After evolving into the King of Wisdom, it was like upgrading your info provider from Baidu Encyclopedia to some kind of super-brain.
While retaining all of the Sage's original functions, such as thought acceleration, analysis and appraisal, parallel computation, chant cancellation, and universal perception, it also gained simulation and deduction, as well as the ability to create new skills.
Even skill cooldowns could be waived, as long as the laws of the world allowed it.
Go far enough, and it could even deduce a world and rebuild it entirely.
Most importantly, this King of Wisdom was a multiverse version. No matter what world Sam went to, he could use it freely.
"As expected of the bug-tier skill evolved from the cute slime king's Sage… the King of Wisdom," Sam muttered in awe as the system transmitted its full capabilities to him.
Seriously. If this wasn't cheating, then what was?
Just look at its basic functions alone:
Thought Acceleration: Increases perception speed by up to a thousand times.
Analysis and Appraisal: Analyzes and identifies targets.
Parallel Computation: Separates analytical processes from active thought to run calculations simultaneously.
Chant Cancellation: Allows the use of magic and similar skills without incantations.
Universal Perception: Collects all unshielded phenomena in the world.
Integration and Separation: Simulation and deduction.
Ability Modification: Creation of new skills.
If someone still tried to say this wasn't cheating, Sam would absolutely slap them on the spot.
But somehow, it felt like his cheat just got even bigger.
As for the Devil Fruit, the Ope Ope no Mi, Sam stored it away for now.
That thing had flaws. Better to eat it after optimization.
After chatting for a while, Elsa left first. She was worried that disappearing without a word would make her little sister anxious.
Not long after that, Kurama headed back as well. He wanted to practice his transformation technique so he could leave the seal as soon as possible.
Wu Liuqi rushed off too. Work on his side was starting, and he was already running late.
Looking at the now-empty Super-Dimensional Mercenary Guild, Sam thought for a moment and ordered, "King of Wisdom, fully analyze and deduce the Hell Sword and the Mini Hell. See what abilities can be developed from them."
"Also, analyze and deduce the Armor of the Underworld."
King of Wisdom: "Understood."
Next, Sam took out the Ope Ope no Mi and opened the optimization function of the Super-Dimensional Mercenary Guild, preparing to optimize the Devil Fruit before eating it.
Sure, the King of Wisdom could analyze, deduce, and probably even optimize it. But Sam felt the guild would be faster, and the cost in dimensional coins wasn't high anyway.
King of Wisdom: "…"
You don't trust me, do you?!
Alright, that was just a joke. The King of Wisdom was basically a cheat-making machine. This kind of thing would be done in minutes.
The real reason was that Sam wanted to test how effective the optimization function was. Maybe it could even boost the Ope Ope no Mi's abilities.
Sure, the fruit involved spatial powers, but optimization was optimization. It couldn't possibly make it worse, right?
What if the results exceeded his expectations? That would just make it easier for the King of Wisdom to analyze and deduce later.
Besides, the original story said Devil Fruits tasted worse than crap.
Sam had no idea whether the person who said that had actually eaten crap and then compared it, but either way, he had no desire to experience a flavor on that level.
"Robin, check how many coins it'll take to optimize the Ope Ope no Mi."
Robin: "Alright."
"Ding. Special Devil Fruit Enhancement Options:
Remove the Devil Fruit's weakness to Seastone and the sea: 1,000 dimensional coins.Note: Guildmaster price. Original price: 10,000 coins.
Enhance Devil Fruit traits: 1,000 dimensional coins.Note: Guildmaster price. Original price: 10,000 coins.
Note: After enhancement, each subsequent upgrade will cost dimensional coins based on requirements."
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