Hyper-Dimensional Player

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The higher the charisma, the more it hurts to cut someone down. Charisma can also be transformed into an energy deflection field, making it difficult for others to land a hit on you if you’re good-looking.

Duncan looked at this incarnation of his and thought it should be quite useful.

But who here isn’t a handsome devil? With this ability, it’s pretty much like having an AT field turned on.

Obviously.

Asas wasn’t handsome enough, so Duncan killed him.

If you’re ugly, don’t mess with these flamboyant abilities. You can’t handle them. Let me handle it for you when it explodes.

Even the power of words couldn’t be used properly.

These abilities that make others do whatever you want, Asas used entirely for messing around.

A downright shameful waste.

To Duncan, the power of words is meant to make lazy people industrious and evil people go against their moral codes. Anyway, its purpose is definitely more than just for playing around.

The potential for development with the power of words is still vast, as it can make most people become obedient.

Dimension Space.

At the bottom of the projection page is a dense list of magic-like abilities, belonging to the Demon Lord’s status, though still incomplete. Not as extensive as the Dark Monarch Glazest’s mastery, but for Duncan, it’s enough, since he always boosts his state and directly charges in to chop off the enemy’s head.

"The following magic-like abilities have been added to your spell list."

"——Dark Claw, Amplified Curse Magic, Blasphemous Words, Entice Monster, Sinister Arts, Dark Arrow, Deep Shadow Magic, Short Suggestion, Desecration Arts, Detect Goodness, Detect Consistency, Detect Thought, Sense Location, Soul Capturing Technique, Greater Dispel Magic, Mass Bewitchment, Mirror Image, Suggestion, Telepathic Control, True Teleportation, Glibness, Evil Abode, Evil Spiritual Light, Evil Shadow Strike, Transform Others, Transform Everything, etc."

"You have acquired the special ability of the Demon Lord [Soul Imprisonment]."

"Before losing the Demon Lord’s status, these magic-like abilities are included in your spell list and expand as you master the domain laws."

"You have acquired a constant effect of the True Sight Spell."

The last one is of little use.

Duncan, with his godlike perspective, finds little use in seeing through invisibility.

"Looks like I’ll have to boost my charisma."

"Are there any legendary-level curiosities that increase the charisma attribute?"

Duncan’s gaze shifted downward.

Soon.

He fell into deep thought because the Demon Lord’s status held one more crucial ability, right there on the bottom of the page.

——"Desecration Priestess."

——"You can induce mortals to fall and transform into desecration priestesses and endow them with a limited amount of divine techniques. These desecration priestesses can access the domain laws you possess and learn the corresponding spell list."

[Note: The Dark Monarch Glazest only has a few priests.]

This is the impoverished version of divine authority.

Normally, a True God possesses numerous followers and priests, converting the power of faith to grant those priests the ability to perform divine techniques.

However, the Demon Lord lacks the True God’s authority, unable to fully transform the power of faith, so granting spells is a losing trade.

So what to do?

Demand sacrifices.

Seize souls.

In any case, one must not incur a loss!

This is why demon followers in the Material Plane are often required to host evil, desecration, or depraved rituals, and some demon followers even get killed in these depraved rituals.

The Demon Lord specializes in sustainable overexploitation.

As long as the followers aren’t entirely wiped out, that’s acceptable.

If they are wiped out, it doesn’t matter.

Just recruit more.

The evil faction has plenty of cannon fodder.

The most important rule is that you absolutely cannot incur a loss. If the blood-sacrifice ritual’s power isn’t enough, just directly kill the demon followers and harvest their souls.

There’s no way to subsidize; Demon Lords never engage in loss-making trades.

In very rare circumstances.

Those Demon Lords who manage well will gradually gain a little divine status over time and can grant spells on a small scale, becoming potential candidates for ascension to godhood.

Among mortals who have done the best, the top one is the Enchanting Demon Queen Meikanshute.

Another is Di Maoge Gen, but he created a race in Purgatory and infiltrated some non-human races to gain faith.

Most of the other Demon Lords end up bankrupt after a bit of playing around.

Because all their demon followers are wiped out.

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