He was more handsome than I pictured him—and high-strung. His clothing<br>looked expensive, and I suppose he placed a lot of importance on his<br>appearance, because he was sporting a whole array of Unique equipment that<br><br>would make him a more-than-decent fighter. It certainly befitted his image as a<br>demon lord not to be trifled with.<br>What struck me the most, however, was the fox he was carrying in his arms. It<br>was packed to the gills with magicules and mystical force, maybe even up to<br>demon lord levels. That was one of his attendants, and I suppose a demon<br>lord's servants had to be pretty damn powerful, too.<br>That, and I tried running an Analyze and Assess on him, and something<br>interesting caught my eye there. I didn't want to coast on this just because we<br>had occupied his HQ. It was important to finish him off right.<br>Anyway, Milim followed behind him, completing the night's attendee list.<br>All were real monsters, ready to burn you at a moment's notice. Doing the A<br>and A once-over on Leon produced nothing useful, either. It was kind of funny,<br>seeing Raphael say that it couldn't analyze something. It meant he had an<br>ultimate skill of his own, something on the same level as mine.<br>Then I made a realization. Guy had let me read fake info, but was that his way<br>of fending off ultimate skills? If I couldn't use my ultimate to analyze something,<br>it meant the target had an ultimate, too. That may be why he was feeding me a<br>bunch of nonsense instead—I just happened to know it was fake nonsense<br>because Raphael was smart enough to see that. If it hadn't noticed, I could<br>easily have been tricked.<br>This meant, of course, that Guy had an ultimate skill as well. I suspected Milus<br>(?) did, too, and Leon definitely did. An ultimate was several orders of<br>magnitude more powerful than a unique skill requiring an intersection of one's<br>attributes, luck, and a plethora of incidental conditions. They were rare—<br>uncommon enough that even a true, awakened demon lord may not have one,<br>and all were great as a last-resort ace in the hole.<br>That was why I needed to be extra careful here. That, and—ugh—it was safe<br>to assume Guy knew I possessed an ultimate now. Big mistake. My lack of<br>experience playing this game screwed me there. I was dealing with some of the<br>orneriest demon lords out there; I should've been more on the alert.<br>Still, what's done is done. It wasn't a lethal mistake, either. I just needed to<br>figure out how to deal with it. It's easy to hide mind-reading skills, just as Gazel<br><br>did. Guy still didn't know what type of skill I had, so I probably didn't need to be<br>too hung up about it. Hell, I could even use this to make them think I'm a fool.<br>To be exact, I would direct Raphael to hide everything at all costs, but maybe<br>show off one ultimate skill that was okay to reveal as my trump card. That way,<br>I could still keep a few cards hidden at all times, right?
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