The weapons I forge are absolutely flawless.

Fortunately, both juniors executed their tasks perfectly.

Having been weakened by repeated seals, the slime demons have become much less threatening and can only rely on their powerful physiques to put up a fight. They are even less able to withstand the onslaught of the group.

It will return to the state of Demon Blood Soul in at most half an hour.

However, things were not as simple as they seemed. As soon as Rimuru's aura weakened, a howling sound came from the horizon, followed by an earthquake.

Since regaining consciousness last time, the Gluttonous Demon Atiga has been forcing himself not to fall asleep, so that he can react first if Rimuru is threatened.

With its earth-shattering roar, the other demons who had fallen into slumber were also awakened and rushed towards this side.

The undisguised aura was enough to be detected even without the warning of the Staff of Tyr's.

Rather, ever since entering the seventh floor, the Staff of Tyrhuns in Listy's hand has been buzzing incessantly, like some kind of special magical artifact.

As Jessica hurriedly injected the remaining seals into the slime demon's body, the nearest Gluttonous Demon arrived and swallowed the slime demon into its body with a single, massive bite.

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"...Then Jessica announced the mission was canceled and led us back."

Felix finally breathed a sigh of relief after recounting the whole story.

“That’s well said. But it’s better to just write down what you ate for each meal in the dungeon in your diary.”

Out of respect, Jessica did not interrupt Felix during his explanation, only mentioning it briefly at the end.

"Hey XD."

Felix gave an awkward yet polite smile and scratched his head, feigning ignorance.

Unlike some who only report good news and not bad, Felix's narrative is objective and fair, without embellishment.

But the fact that he insisted on including three meals a day in the introduction, and even gave it special mention, was truly beyond Wiener's expectations.

You'd think this was a food travel guide.

Aside from the demons, other dangers and difficulties he encountered were probably less important to him than eating on time.

"So it still failed?" Wiener murmured to himself.

It's not a good omen that someone who is just the weakest of the demons can escape one after another, even if there is an element of luck involved.

"Targeting two demons at the same time is too dangerous, so I decided to terminate the mission."

This danger is primarily for Lisette and Felix.

They can also be of great help in dealing with slime monsters, according to the pre-determined strategy.

However, if they were to face a gluttonous demon, even being caught in the aftershocks could pose a life-threatening threat to them.

She was the team leader for this mission.

Bringing the two juniors back safely was clearly more important than sealing the slime demon.

"Although we failed to wipe them out, we achieved the main objective, so it wasn't a wasted trip."

Tilisa's attitude revealed a hint of satisfaction.

From planning the route to adapting to the situation, from the tactics she devised in advance against the slime monster to her decisive abandonment of the mission, every decision Jessica made was impeccable.

This proves that she can do something well if she wants to.

Under her protection, Lisette and Felix safely gained valuable experience in fighting the demons.

The seal Jessica left inside the slime monster will continue to affect it for a considerable period of time.

While it cannot completely restrict its actions, it is enough for the academy to keep track of its movements at all times, ensuring that it can no longer cause any trouble.

"That's basically the situation on our end. Shouldn't you share with us what junior student Wiener has been through these past few days?"

Jessica looked at Vina with a half-smile, as if she was ready to hear a story.

Jessica had been curious ever since she saw Vina put on that apologetic look.

I just wanted to see Wiener's embarrassing situation a little longer, so that when we encounter each other bringing up old grievances and exposing each other's dark pasts in the future, I won't be completely powerless to fight back.

This is such a trivial matter that it's not even enough to shake Wiener's pride.

He cleared his throat, about to introduce his achievements, when Felix preemptively asked:

"I've been wanting to ask you this for a while now, Vena, why are you always carrying a spoon in your clothes? Are you hungry?"

Wiener: "..."

Chapter 397 Can Felix Do It?

"This object is called a compass."

"A verbal explanation might not be clear enough, Rikka, could you please help me?"

Wiener placed the modified Sinanping on the table and turned his gaze to Rikka.

Rikka nodded without hesitation.

"Go outside now and walk around the villa twenty times. Don't go too fast, just walk normally."

"it is good."

When Rikka, following Vina's instructions, left the villa and began to circle around, the handle of the spoon on the compass also began to turn.

"you made it?"

Jessica looked slightly surprised.

Apart from Felix, everyone present was intelligent and naturally understood what this meant.

"It's just a fluke."

Wiener smiled knowingly and then began to explain the underlying principles to everyone.

Many conclusions sound very simple, but are extremely difficult to verify.

Even Tauronio only discovered by chance that mixing cold iron into weapons could improve their quality and enhance their effectiveness against demons, without delving into the reasons behind it.

Wiener also used two Hero Legacy items to pre-determine the answer and then work backward to deduce the principle, thus figuring out the trick in a way that was half a shortcut.

"...I only did some minor work, figuring out the best solution in terms of materials. The real core element is the magic rune left by Tauronio."

Just as Wiener finished speaking, Si Nan stopped as well, presumably because Rikka had completed her number of rotations.

“Vina, you don’t need to be modest. Being able to understand what Lord Tauronio left behind is already quite remarkable.”

After hearing the whole story, Lisette's attitude softened considerably.

The effort required to go from knowing absolutely nothing about magic to understanding such profound magical runes is truly unimaginable.

"Huh? I don't understand."

"Then this magic rune—"

"I simply pulled out every single magic rune and listed them all."

Vena wasn't joking at all; discovering the correct magic rune was purely by chance.

"..."

Lisette decided to take back what she had just said.

"Even if it's just a lucky coincidence, that's still a skill. I've never seen this kind of magic rune before."

Jessica stared at the magic runes carved on the tray for a long time.

"You've never even met your senior before?"

After obtaining the Staff of Tyrhuns, Lysty was curious about the magic runes on it, but after studying them, she still couldn't understand them and thought it was just a problem with herself.

"Right? That's why I've always been curious, where did Tauronio get these magic runes from? Could it be that besides being a craftsman, he's also a hidden magician?"

Wiener may not understand, but that doesn't mean he won't look it up.

It was precisely because he had consulted numerous classical texts but failed to find its source that he had no choice but to resort to this most rudimentary method.

"Let me explain this." As the only one among them who knew the inside story, Tilisa spoke up to clear things up for everyone. "Tauronio is not a magician, nor even a warrior."

"Although he reached the level of a seventh-tier Emblem Master during his lifetime, it was mostly due to the feedback he received from the Iron Rhythm Emblem after he forged fourteen Heroic Legacy Emblems."

"As for this demonic rune, if I'm not mistaken, it should originate from the Holy Sword."

"Holy Sword?"

Jessica was slightly surprised.

She knew that Tissa had left the academy to find the Holy Sword.

But since the teacher has already seen the true face of the Holy Sword, why use the word "guess"?

Tissa seemed to see her disciples' doubts and then said, "Close your eyes and see if you can draw this magic rune."

Listy felt she knew the magic runes on Tyr's Staff by heart, so she immediately reached out and tried to draw them in the air, but she couldn't continue after only one stroke.

The memories of this demonic rune in his mind instantly became distorted.

Jessica also ended in failure.

"Teacher, what's going on?"

Listy opened her eyes and looked at Tissalis.

"The Holy Sword will change according to the thoughts deep within the observer's heart."

"A thousand emblems will present a thousand different holy swords in the eyes of a thousand people."

"The fourteen heroic legacies left by Tauronio are actually the fourteen forms of holy swords that he observed."

"These magic runes are just magic runes that Tauronio imagined."

“You cannot possibly succeed in interpreting the magical runes that Taurono imagined based on your own knowledge and understanding,” Tilisa explained.

When facing the Holy Sword, one's existing knowledge becomes an obstacle, and the more experienced a mage is, the less they can escape this.

Of the fourteen heroic legacies, only one staff offers a clue.

On the contrary, people like Viner don't intend to understand it at all; they just think about how to use it so that they can engrave this special magic rune.

While the two women were still pondering the deeper meaning of Tilissa's words, Felix excitedly spoke up:

"Master, Master! Is this how you see it?!"

The Demon Blade Thousand Blades was drawing identical magic runes in the form of fragments in front of Felix.

The reason it took so long was that Felix couldn't remember what the magic rune looked like at first glance, so he secretly opened his eyes halfway through and stumbled as he finished drawing the rune.

"...Well done."

"Hey XD!"

Forget about magic runes, Felix didn't understand a single word of what the others had been discussing for so long.

But what does it matter?

Felix accomplished what two smart people like Lisette and Jessica couldn't!

“Since Felix can also draw this magic rune, that makes things much easier.” Venere had already thought further ahead. “When mass-producing, we can have artisans who don’t understand magic runes at all do this step.”

“I’m afraid they won’t be so obedient once they get the blueprints,” Jessica shook her head.

Just as they tried to understand the magic runes, once Vena handed the blueprints to the Empire, they would most likely organize artisans to decipher them.

If it's just a waste of manpower and resources, that's fine. The real fear is that during the deciphering process, a large number of craftsmen will be affected, and no one will be able to draw this magic rune.

"Oh? Then you have some brilliant ideas?"

"Fill it with lots of meaningless patterns to make it look more like a simple decoration, so that people don't think of it as a magic pattern."

Jessica offered advice from a more practical perspective.

While the compass is a valuable tool, carrying it around everywhere will inevitably arouse suspicion.

By using patterns and other decorations to disguise it as a handicraft, it can greatly enhance its appeal, both in terms of dissemination and concealment.

"The idea is good, but the question is who will do it? Let me make it clear first, I can't do it."

Wiener had no problem with aesthetics.