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of different monsters and items to enchant my weapon. It works for all of my weapons. It's a parallel system to your current level—like having a job level.”
    Thinking over what he said, I realized I’d seen similar things in games I’d played in the past. You could level up your equipment to gain new abilities. It wasn’t very exciting, but it worked. Still, I think I remembered learning some really powerful abilities that way.
    “Okay, okay . . . Ren and Itsuki are getting a little out of control. Allow me . . . .”
    “I’m not expecting much, but go ahead.”
    I was already expecting nothing but lies out of the whole group.
    “I’m telling you, the most important thing to focus on is smelting weapons and status levels. The performance that you get out of status levels is way more important than what you get from your actual level. Even if you stick with the weakest weapon, the one you started with, if you smelt it properly, it can be really strong! I made all my equip bonuses work to raise my attack power.”
    “Now THAT’S a real lie!”
    “It is. Naofumi, don’t listen to him!”
    Motoyasu brushed their protests aside and kept speaking directly to me.
    “It’s different for every weapon, but the first thing you need is to collect ores for smelting. Now, in Emerald Online you would lose your weapon if the smelting process failed. But that doesn't happen with our legendary weapons. Here, if you fail, the smelting value just falls to zero.”
    “That’s not true!”
    “Yeah!”
    The argument was getting intense and out of control. The queen looked puzzled by all the disagreements.
    Honestly, I was pretty confused myself.
    Did they think they could get away with lying if they all lied?
    “Anyway, then there are the eye spirits and the status enchantments. Depending on the piece of the monster soul you combine with the weapon, the effect will be different. The options vary by weapon, but let’s say that you have a weapon for dueling. You can raise the damage the weapon does to other humans.”
    “Itsuki, didn’t you say something similar to that?”
    “There are only so many slots available on the weapon, and the percentages are fixed.”
    “Tell the truth!”
    “Yeah, I’m tired of hearing about some other game.”
    Both Ren and Itsuki shouted to silence Motoyasu, who turned, frustrated, to face them both.
    “Why do you all keep lying?”
    “Why are YOU lying?”
    “Both of you are lying!”
    “Well I don’t know who’s lying and who’s not . . . .”
    The conversation had gone so well until we reached the end. Then apparently everyone had a different version of the truth.
    The three of them all looked incensed—I don’t think I’d ever seen them all in such blatant disagreement.
    “Could it be that all of your weapons are powered up differently?”
    “Let’s just agree to disagree.”
    “It works as an explanation in the short run. Let’s leave it at that.”
    “Fine—but so far none of your explanations have meshed with what I’ve seen going on.”
    And then, apparently, the conversation was over.
    If all of them were as angry as they seemed to be, then they probably weren’t lying.
    Even if they were lying, their lies would only affect their own reputations.
    “Fine. Well I guess it’s my turn.”
    “Yes. We’ve all done our best to fill you in on what we know, so you better come clean yourself.”
    “If you think I’m lying, I’m not going to take the blame.”
    This whole thing was getting more confusing by the minute.
    “What do you want to know first?”
    To tell the truth, these three approached everything as if it were a game. At the very least, I needed to find some way to make them take this seriously—or all our lives would be in danger. So I had better tell them the truth.
    “Tell us why Raphtalia and Filo are as powerful as they are.”
    “That’s easy enough. I have a Slave-User Shield and a Monster-User Shield, both of which have great equip bonuses