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Published: January 4, 2026
The next day, I woke up to find myself inside the gazebo in the garden.
As the kanji "四阿" suggests, a gazebo is a structure with no walls, supported only by four pillars, with just a roof on top.
A cool breeze blew through the gazebo as I had the maid, Zoe, by my side and made Leviathan and Luthier fight.
I linked the armor rings to create their duplicates and let them battle.
With the water demon sword and the Ring of Fire, both possessing high abilities, I chose to do this in the garden gazebo rather than inside the mansion to avoid breaking anything.
We fought ten rounds, and Leviathan won all ten times.
Though both had high capabilities, Leviathan was overwhelmingly superior.
That aside.
“You leveled up, huh,” I muttered, shifting my gaze from the two puppets after the battle to the status display in the corner.
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Name: Noah Alarate
Prince Minister of Legal Affairs
Gender: Male
Level: 3/∞
HP: E+F Fire: F+C
MP: F+F Water: E+S
Strength: E+E Wind: F
Endurance: F+F Earth: F
Intelligence: F+E Light: F
Spirit: F+F Darkness: F
Speed: F+F
Dexterity: F+F
Luck: F+F
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My level had gone up by one again.
Just like yesterday, I raised it by making Leviathan and Luthier fight.
This time, strength improved by one rank, now E.
“Zoe.”
“Yes, Master,” Zoe nodded, closed her eyes, and cast a status check spell on me.
It’s been over six years since she entered my mansion.
Having received my kindness and wanting to repay it, she learned many things.
Status check magic was one of them.
With the spell she cast, my stats immediately appeared.
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Name: Noah Alarate
Prince Minister of Legal Affairs
Gender: Male
Level: 3/∞
HP: E Fire: C
MP: F Water: ss
Strength: D Wind: F
Endurance: F Earth: F
Intelligence: E Light: F
Spirit: F Darkness: F
Speed: F
Dexterity: F
Luck: F
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The version I saw was quite different from this one, lacking the plus signs and instead showing some kind of combined value.
“Amazing... You really leveled up without fighting yourself... I’ve never heard of anything like this.”
“This is the result of these puppets fighting.”
“Th-then, if you keep making them fight, do you keep leveling up forever?”
“It’s not that simple. The experience points you get from the same opponent decrease the more you fight them. I leveled from 1 to 2 after one fight, but going from 2 to 3 took ten fights.”
“Ah...”
“At this rate, raising from 3 to 4 with Leviathan and Luthier would take over a hundred fights. I guess you could if you had enough patience.”
“I see... That’s disappointing.”
“Well, at least I learned something.”
“What’s that?”
“That I should gather more puppets like Leviathan and Luthier. Even if it takes a hundred fights to level up, having two hundred puppets would make it instant.”
“True!”
Zoe nodded in agreement, and I restarted the fights between Leviathan and Luthier.
Though it barely had any effect now, I still let them battle.
It was quite informative.
Watching Leviathan and Luthier fight helped me understand their abilities more clearly, especially seeing them in action from a third-person perspective.
So, with Zoe serving nearby, I watched their endless battles.
So far, Leviathan had won every time.
Luthier didn’t seem weak by his movements, but compared to Leviathan, he was clearly one or two tiers below.
That’s why he was overwhelmed.
At the same time, I also grasped Luthier’s personality.
Unlike the loyal dog Leviathan, Luthier was quite competitive.
Though under my command, he immediately signaled “Next!” with a frustrated feeling every time he lost.
I made them continue battling indefinitely.
“Ah!”
I caught a moment of weakness in Leviathan’s movement after he dodged an attack.
A moment of stiffness right after deflecting the blow.
Because I could also use Leviathan’s skills, I clearly saw that opening.
At the same time, since I could use Luthier’s abilities too, I realized he couldn’t exploit that weakness to break through.