Chapter 67: “The Birth of a Demon Lord”
“Hold on a minute, too much just happened…!”
<<The current action will now be deferred.>>
Rare needed to analyze everything in order. First, the item name. Apparently, its official name was “Greater Philosopher’s Stone.” Nice. Wait, no, that wasn’t important at all. Okay, so “Living Spirit” must be in the same family as high elf, probably one rank above. That would mean “Spirit Lord” was one rank above that, and it needed 3,000 XP in order to get there. That put it in the same ballpark as how much she paid for World Tree, though still cheaper.
Next was “Dark Elf.” Since the rest of the notifications were prefaced with “A special condition has been met,” Rare believed this must be some kind of special reincarnation path or something. She wasn’t sure whether this was triggered from a skill she had learned or due to some other factor, though. As for how the proceeding “Demonic Spirit” and “Demon Lord” were related, she inferred that dark elf corresponded to high elf, demonic spirit with living spirit, and finally demon lord with spirit lord. She could probably assume that one set of races was based around light and the other around dark.
“What should I do…?”
Boiling everything down, there were ultimately only two options: become a spirit lord, or become a demon lord. Whichever she chose to pursue, there was another huge problem to tackle first.
“…Damn, I don’t have enough XP.”
If she had known it would come to this, she would have put off learning all those skills for later. Well, no, even if she didn’t need any of those skills to meet the conditions for unlocking all these options, she still needed to have learned them. For example, it was hard to believe that she would still be allowed to learn [Holy Magic] after reincarnating into a demon lord.
Rare wondered how long she could keep this deferred action on hold. Although, even if she had to abandon the action, all she would lose was a sparkly Philosopher’s Stone—er, a Greater Philosopher’s Stone. It would probably count as her one use for the day, but she should be able to use another one tomorrow. In any case, she would just calmly make the system wait for now, and if that didn’t work then she would figure it out then.