Honestly, with Xiao Di's Ruling Spell alone, isn't world conquest a piece of cake? There's no need to outwit and outfight the air!
Iri thought with a hint of triumph, looking at the Adventurers kneeling all over the floor. But then, it would lose its fun, wouldn't it? Besides, Ainz and her current self enjoy this, don't they?
"Well then, everyone, I shall take my leave now." Iri slowly lifted the hem of her skirt once more, bowed to the kneeling Adventurers, and slowly walked towards the Adventurer's Guild's main door.
"Damn it! What happened?! I... I can't stand up!"
"W-what is this?!"
"Ugh! What kind of magic is this?! Hey! Aren't you a Priest?! Hurry up and find a way to dispel it!!"
"A mere trick. Let me break... break... move... can't move."
Scatter, scatter! Let the "praise" come more abundantly! Iri was thoroughly enjoying this feeling. For a strong person, isn't the wailing of a defeated dog, groveling under one's absolute power, the best praise? Iri thought so and walked to the Adventurer's Guild's door.
At this moment, You Li had already arrived before Iri reached the door, pushing it open for her and respectfully bowing her head to let Iri walk out directly.
Iri, just one step away from crossing the threshold, stopped. She turned around, revealed a smile, and said:
"Well then, if you take one more step, the quest will fail, you know? Is there really no one who can touch me?"
"D-damn it!" Almost all the Adventurers were stunned by Iri's sudden Ruling Spell.
No one had ever seen such a technique. When Iri mocked them, almost everyone remained silent. Only one large man was still struggling to break free.
It's useless. Even that Mountain Giant, who looks stronger than you, can't break free, so don't waste your energy, Iri thought to herself.
"Wait... just a moment!! Miss! I, I'm just not in good condition and lacking a bit of energy. If you give me a little more time..." The large man said with great difficulty.
"Oh? Is that so? Then I'll give you 10 seconds? No, a minute will do. It can also be a chance for everyone to redeem themselves, right? So then! Everyone, do your best." Iri replied with a radiant smile on her face.
"Hey! Everyone!! Don't let this girl look down on us! You! You! And you! Hurry up and cast your buffs on me!" The large man began to issue commands to those around him. Surprisingly, they were united now, casting various enhancement spells on the large man.
"Lady Elizabeth." You Li seemed a little worried as she reminded her.
"It's fine, this is also part of the plan," Iri whispered. Anyway, if she was too lazy to explain or couldn't explain, she'd just use this excuse!
In truth, Iri was doing this simply because she felt looked down upon and merely wanted to vent her anger on these people; there was no special reason.
At this moment, Iri seemed to smell a faint scent of blood. She didn't know why, but Iri seemed particularly sensitive to the smell of blood, probably due to her Vampire True Ancestor physique from Shalltear!
But why would there be a smell of blood here?
"Lady, one minute is up." Just as Iri was wondering where the smell of blood came from, You Li spoke up to remind Iri.
Iri, snapping back to reality, looked at the large man who was still prostrate on the ground. Although he had various enhancement buffs, he couldn't even move, let alone stand up.
"Damn it!! Why isn't it working even with all the enhancements applied!!" The large man also heard You Li say that time was up. The game was over, and the large man was filled with remorse.
"Hehe! Perhaps it's because your training is insufficient? Actually, you don't need to be so upset, big brother, because you're not the only one kneeling on the ground, are you? It's a pity. None of the Adventurers here could complete my request," Iri said with a smile.
Actually, if Iri's words were translated, it would mean, "I'm not targeting anyone, but everyone present is trash."
None of the Adventurers present expected that the seemingly frail little loli before them would possess such strange power. Almost everyone remained silent, and no one dared to speak ill of Iri anymore.
"Well then..." Iri looked around again. Just as she was about to turn and leave, then give the order to dispel the spell, she saw an Adventurer in the corner, "kneeling" on the ground in a very strange posture, and the floor was stained with blood. No wonder she smelled blood.
Upon closer inspection, she noticed that the Adventurer's hands and feet were bandaged. It seemed he was seriously injured. Wait a minute... in his current state, with bandaged hands and feet twisted at angles a normal human couldn't possibly achieve, could it be that because of her Ruling Spell, this Adventurer directly knelt down with injured hands and feet?
"Lady Elizabeth?" You Li noticed that Iri, who was frozen at the door, seemed a bit off. The smile that had always been on her face had vanished.
It was then that Iri realized how excessively she had acted due to her willfulness.
Although Iri understood that this world was a world where the strong preyed on the weak, where the strong could act wantonly, and the weak could only be swallowed up by this world.
Iri ignored You Li's call, raised her right hand, and looked at the nail on her right ring finger. Her new body in this world didn't have this injury!
This reminded Iri of her life before transmigration. Back in school, she was the weak one in that world, often bullied by the "strong" in her class—those few mean girls.
Once, because Iri accidentally brushed past one of the leading mean girls who was sitting and painting her nails, the mean girl's hand slipped, and she smudged her nail polish.
The result was that Iri was held down by the mean girl's so-called friends, forced to apologize to the mean girl, just like these Adventurers were now prostrating themselves before her.
And that wasn't all; Iri, who was forced to kneel and apologize, had her hand brutally stomped on by the mean girl. This is why Iri knew that stepping on a finger at the part where the nail plate connects to the finger is incredibly painful.
So now, after transmigrating and gaining supreme power—the kind of power that makes you think, "Sorry! Having power truly means you can do whatever you want."
However, what she had done, what was the difference between it and what that mean girl, who used to enjoy bullying her when she was weak, had done?
This was the first time Iri had thought about this question since transmigrating. Now, having clearly become strong, was she to become someone who enjoyed bullying the weak? To become the kind of person her former self hated the most?
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