Why Wouldn’t I, a Slime, Want to Become a Peerless Demon King?
我史莱姆何尝不想成为盖世魔王
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- Light Novel
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- Original ACG Fantasy
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Why does the Demon King Iber keep his dark history of being flushed away by a golden toilet?
Why does Demon Lord Ippo retain his dark history of being flushed down a golden toilet? To elicit sympathy, what many don't know is that this experience has been romanticized. Ippo's true identity is actually a slime created by Ruby...
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Awakening Realm: The real world. [The Gate of the Heart] [Shallow Sea] The shallow layer of the dream world, the transitional part between the dream world and the waking world. The Beginning [Prototype Realm] The first layer of the Dream Realm. Legend has it that the Awakening Realm was conceived from here, and life originated from this place. The Lost Gate
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I feel like I've been scammed
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After reading the first volume, I really wanted this book to be a hit, since that would give the author more motivation to keep writing. But after reading seventy chapters of the second volume, I realized a trend: if the author's unrestrained writing continues at this rate, and it becomes a hit, this book might be forced into obscurity.
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