Message to Nasir05: I really didn’t have anything to write for the author’s note so I thought I would just chat to someone who has been reading since I first released my novel. So here goes. Kind of feels weird writing it here and not in the comments. You seem to be on almost every novel I read. I just started reading True Identity and on the author’s blog you even get credited and thanked for an idea. I even started reading a bit of your novel but I decided to wait until more chapters came out. I only realised that you were fairly invested in my novel quite a bit when you wrote that comment on chapter 17. I hope you continue to read this novel.

Message to everyone: I am sorry that recently I haven’t been able to update daily. I have been updating fairly erratically and that has been unfair to you guys. I did promise but now I am going to have to change what I said. I will try to upload daily but might not because of RL stuff. I sometimes can’t think of what to write because I have multiple directions to go in. I didn't want to make this chapter too cliché, but I definitely wanted to go in a similar direction and I had trouble making it there so I delayed it. Hope you still enjoy the chapter.

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???’s point of view

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It has been 8 years since we easily regained our territory and enslaved the demons after the Demon Lord suddenly disappeared that day. Still, since my parents died in that dungeon he created, I have been training in the orphanage. If any more Demon Lords appear, I will be able to easily conquer the labyrinth, grab the legendary weapon and slay him; that is only if the legendary weapon is as great as they say it is. I am a bit sceptical about it. Why would the Demon Lord leave such a place unguarded? Only savage and mindless beasts live there. They roam the halls, killing anyone who sets foot inside, be it man or demon slave. Why did he disappear?

My parents apparently got to the boss of the dungeon; a great beast that was half bull, half man. Did the fact that they got close scare him? Did he run away? Is he guarding it himself now? No, I mustn’t say that. It is taboo now. Even if the Church says their leader killed the Demon Lord, everyone knows that’s a lie. A fat, elderly man would not have been able to stand against the Demon Lord, let alone the sins he shames such as gluttony and sloth.

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I am fairly proud of myself. I am now 14 and can already defeat the adults in the village. Still, I have to get stronger. Although the dungeon was called unbeatable, the one who created it was called even worse names. At the age of five, he single handedly destroyed an army of 80,000 soldiers, knights, mages, archers and heroes. If a Demon Lord appears with even a small portion of his strength, we are doomed. He can’t have disappeared, he was not that weak. This fact scares me.

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“Happy birthday!”

It is my sixteenth birthday today. The party I am in are currently celebrating it. It has been ten years since the Demon Lord had disappeared. The loss from the war has almost been regained. Almost everyone who is around my age has almost forgotten it. Those who lost family locked it away in the back of their minds; others simply acted like it had nothing to do with them and let it go. I will not however; I have to get stronger. I have to get stronger…

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I have been recently asked to marry a noble. They seemed to have been impressed by my fighting prowess. I did, after all this time, manage to place first in the world martial arts tournament. I had to decline. I have to at least double my efforts from now on. I probably wouldn’t be able to fight against 100, let alone 80,000 people at once, without breaking a sweat. I am too weak. I should have gotten stronger than I am now through my training. Is this the limit of human fighting capabilities or am I just hitting a bottleneck? Maybe if I get the legendary weapon I will understand. Hopefully the Demon Lord is not there.

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My party and I entered the labyrinth three weeks ago. We found the boss a couple of times and each time, we lost members. I am the only one left. I have had to rely on eating any monster I come across. It is crude, tasteless and tough; nothing compared to mother’s cooking. Mother…

I cried that night for the first time in ten years.

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I have finally killed the boss. I trained and I trained inside the dungeon until I was finally able to put the beast down. Kathyrin, Elzbeth, Liz and Fran, you can now rest in peace. I approached the room behind the arena that the boss had resided in. I entered. Words were written on the back wall…

NO WEAPON HERE! I TROLLED YOU –Demon Lord

My party died in vain. My parents died in vain. If the Demon Lord is not dead, I will kill him.

A light appeared beneath my feet, making me feel dizzy and disorientated. What is this? A trap set up by the Demon Lord? Am I going to die here as well? No! I stumbled out of the light in an unfamiliar area. What happened? Where is this place?

WHERE CAN I FIND AND KILL THE DEMON LORD?

“Welcome hero.” A voice came out from somewhere in the room.

I turned to face a man on top a throne.

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Author note: Sorry for the shortish chapter. I couldn’t think about what way to go so I decided to add the new hero. PS: Don’t hate on her back story. Time can travel at different speeds in parallel universes. Also, harem member get! JK, I probably won’t go in that direction. Maybe one love interest. It all depends on how the story goes.