An Unknown Variable?

It was fortunate for them to have not met any monster along the way… Rather than fortunate, the most correct way to say it is that their misfortune ended.

Even among monsters, there were very few kinds of monsters who are so weak that they cannot stay on the territory beyond Iliasburg. Considering that, the fact that there were so many monsters attracted by the Mandragora's scream was truly an unlucky case.

Such a situation was never heard before among heroes. It would have been possible in Sentora, where stronger monsters who can assume the role of leaders and the influence of Ilias barely reaches that area. However, not only here the entire land is blessed by the Goddess, with more Holy Energy tilted at south, but there were supposed to be very few monsters living here.

Not only did they encounter a group bigger than 5 Slug Girls, but they also got chased by two groups made up of different species the next day.

If that wasn't being unlucky, Victor didn't know what it was.

Speaking of which, what was going on with his luck these days? Ever since he appeared in this world, in the very first frame of the universal time, he already met with a terrible accident.

Not just that, he was also at a high risk of getting sucked to death by a Succubus. The theory of him being somewhat special is merely a theory, he still has not a single proof that might explain how he survived a nightly assault by the Succubus.

And then there is the day when he didn't bother seeing forward through time and carelessly got caught by Alice. If he already went to sleep outside, he could still be in Iliasville enjoying his tycoon farming days…

And of course, there are the two monster groups and the incoming invasion in Iliasburg...

It had just been 8 or 9 days, and yet he already faced so many problems. These kinds of disastrous events should have happened at least once in a month. Did Fate start to play with darts after sticking a picture of his face on the door?

If that was the case, it seems like he just went out to buy more darts because after leaving Wendy with her daughter joining their group, no more problems went to look for them; at least until evening.

Victor became nervous as his eyes fell on Iliasburg built some distance away. He and his group were looking at the city from a small cliff.

While a forest was extended behind their backs; below the cliff was a green plain extending all the way to where their eyes could reach. And on the green and vast plains there is a lonely hill hosting their destination, Iliasburg.

Tall walls made of solid stone bricks surrounded the village, set up to defend against the average monster threat outside. Unfortunately, it is completely useless against this one threat…

Unfortunately, he foolishly spent time on the river back in the morning, and thus they had wasted time that could be used to reach this place in time. Once again, the original fate of the visual novel changed now that they were a bit late.

Victor's eyes shifted on his inventory, seeing the new amount of gold he had gained in the time it took to come here: 13'567 Gold. He could have bought the Sapphire Mine, but this time he didn't let his thoughts cloud his judgement and left them there. Who knows, he might need them to deal with Granberia.

Speaking of which, he found an interesting thing going on with the System…

Now, remember when he thought that he could buy everything existing and not existing in the shop? He could use his store to assert his opponents' level of strength! Yes, by seeing the amount of coins they cost, he can judge the maximum amount of strength they can unleash on their fullest potential.

And speaking of which…

Granberia was worth 83'012'001'299 Gold Coins, a price comparable to a motherfucking large Antimatter Bomb… Jesus Christ, she's busted!

Still, they got Alice at their side. As long as everything goes well and Alice is forced to come out, Granberia will have no choice but to leave.

...Curious about how strong the Goddess of Light is? Here it is.

[Ilias: 87'510'275'422'447'412'080'137 Gold]

Crazy, right? For comparison, her price range is the same as Frieza from the Namek Saga. Basically, Ilias and the Dark Goddess Alipheese are as strong as fucking Frieza… This is ridiculous! It was supposed to be a visual novel on erotism, where did this kind of strength come from? How did Luka even manage to fist up her plans?

Speaking of Frieza's price, Victor had noticed a weird system to calculate the price of each product. Even if Frieza costs as much as the two Goddesses, that was it only for the normal version. If it was Frieza after training in Dragon Ball Super, his price rocketed way beyond what was possible, reaching 35 whole digits! That is comparable as buying an entire pocketable universe and becoming its omnipotent god!

And that's the problem! If one had to make choices, he would have picked the second option. If he can have an entire universe at his disposal, he could easily create beings and materials that largely surpassed Frieza in overall power and pull them out!

This system doesn't take in consideration possible other ways to utilize certain products. He could buy the entire white house, or he could buy everything that made Alucard into 'Alucard' at a cheaper price!

Immortality, cheats, they were all negligible information for the system's store!

This gave him more possibilities, but at the same time also more to think about whenever he has to buy new products… In fact, there might be something in the store that could fix his leg instantly that he can buy with his current amount of money, but he doesn't know which product that is yet.

"...Alice." Luka's sudden call took Victor by surprise as he was heavily focused on his thoughts. Turning his head around, Victor saw Luka looking at the Monster Lord, who glanced back to Luka due to being mentioned.

"Are you able to disguise yourself? If you go in there like that, there will be a lot of troubles…" Luka asked Alice, suddenly bringing up another important point that Victor almost forgot.

Monsters aren't able to enter human settlements, except for some few places like Grand Noah. He almost forgot of that fact because there was actually a monster who lived in Iliasburg without any problem, Amira.

Though, she might be an exception, and Victor didn't want to throw such large bets to see if the soldiers won't do anything when they see either Alice or Penny as monsters.

Speaking of Penny, she is currently sitting on Victor's lap. It might be the childish side of hers, but she took a liking for his wheelchair. Since Victor REALLY needed this wheelchair, and he didn't feel like saying no to Penny, they came up with a compromise that she could sit over his lap instead.

Besides, she already went through her depressed phase; that was because she still believed in his mother's lie. Victor didn't know how much she had to live, but without anyone there to take care of her, she will most likely die of thirst… She looked so gentle, and yet she had to face such a bad death.

Apparently, he could buy Wendy's life if he wanted, at the cheap price of 19'020 Gold Coins. But there were many factors to take in account before he could even think if it was worth buying a dead person back to life…

Will they retain their memories? Will they be loyal to him? What would actually happen if he really bought a dead person to life? He didn't know, and he prefers keeping that unanswered for the time being. Not just because he was hesitant, but also because he didn't feel the worth of spending that much for a dead person. Because of that, he decided to keep that fact hidden within him.

Leaving that aside, he has to find a way to disguise Penny. She didn't change clothes at all, still dressed up like Alice from the Wonderland franchise. Her dog tail is hidden inside her blue skirt, and her floppy ears were easy to disguise within her golden hair.

For safety, he might need to give her something to cover her head with, like a hat or a circlet to restrict her ears in the case they begin to move… Maybe a white bonnet would fit her.

"I can do it, but that doesn't mean I will do it. Taking the form of a human is unpleasant, why should I have to pretend to be a human?" Alice replied to Luka's question with an arrogant tone, but Luka didn't seem to mind that and rebuked with a blank tone.

"If you can't enter the city, how are you going to eat your Ama-Ama Dango?"

At the mention of Alice's target during her supposed tour in Iliasburg, a frown appeared on her face. Troubled, Alice started to bite on her thumb's nail with a difficult expression.

On one hand, she can finally eat the Ama-Ama Dango, pretty famous snacks across the entire continent.

On the other hand, she had to put up a convincing disguise so that she could eat it without anyone making trouble for her.

A dozen of seconds of quick-moving thoughts later, Alice heaved an exasperated sigh and let go of her thumb from her teeth. "Fine, I'll go along with this stupid game."

As soon as she finished her sentence, a finger snap echoed out from Alice as nail-sized particles of black light appeared from nowhere and began to cover the top of her head, slowly enveloping her white silky hair and horns. As more darkness covered Alice's body, the process started to become faster as it covered the rest of her body.

While the darkness was gradually reaching for her tail, starting from when it arrived at her neck, the dark particles on top of her head turned into fragments that vanished from air, revealing a new Alice under that dark energy.

Her horns disappeared, and her skin recovered a rosy complexion that resembled that of a human person. The darkness that enveloped her snake tail also vanished along, and a pair of long and beautiful legs replaced her long tail, along with a pair of black boots that matched the rest of her skimpy clothes.

"How does it look?" Once the transformation successfully happened, Alice crossed her arms under her large bosom and stared at Luka with an annoyed expression.

"Woah!" Penny excitedly shouted, amazed at the spectacle that Alice unconsciously offered to her. "That is amazing!"

The annoyed expression on Alice's face softened a bit, replaced by a prideful smirk. "Of course, no normal monster can utilize this kind of technique. You have to learn how to utilize your inner Dark Energy to do so, and the better is the spell, the better your disguise can get."

"Can I also do that?!" With a wide smile plastered on Penny's face, she asked out loudly. Unfortunately, Alice shook her head.

"You are still a child, your inner Dark Energy is too weak. Once you get bigger, I'm sure this spell will come out to you easily if you study enough about magic."

"So… Can I do it?" Penny asked again, with a pair of eyes that clearly said that she didn't understand much of what Alice had just told her.

"Grow up first, then you can do it."

"Aww…" Penny became less enthusiastic about it. Meanwhile, Alice casually shifted her gaze over the boys and let out an amused smirk when she saw Victor completely focused on her from the corner of his eyes. No matter how he tried to hide it, she knew he was clearly attracted to her disguised form, although Luka showed less of that side.

"Is something wrong about my disguise?" Alice asked while the smirk on her face never vanished. She gently moved her hands over her waist and casually shook her body left and right, letting her almost naked breasts dance back and forth. "Is it perhaps my skin?"

"Or…" She trailed off as her right hand went towards the bottom of her short skirt. Alice grasped the irregular edge of her skirt and slowly lifted it up, showing more and more her hips, although she stopped just before she could reveal her 'secret garden'. "Is there perhaps a problem with my legs?"

Now, Victor was not some kind of silk pants. His view of girls that showed a lot of skin back to Earth could be described with two words: 'Okay, and?'

Frankly, it became annoying. Whenever he is in the car with his father, he would tell him about random girls walking across the streets.

'Look at her ass!'

'Those are some sexy hips.'

He didn't give a fuck about that, he simply wanted to get back at home after a long and stressful day at school!

However, Alice here was the incarnation of those kinds of girls after a Level Up. Not only was she showing more skin than any cosplaying girl in hentai, but she was also much more sexier and attractive than every girl he met in his life.

Although, if he was told to make love with Alice in her monster body, he would get immediately turned off by her abnormal skin color and her tail. Of course, if you asked him if he was sure about that, he can't answer. It's not like he already had an opportunity to have sex with her, and he really shouldn't do any of that with a monster as long as his left leg is still crippled.

Still, when Alice got in her human form, showing off her assets in a casual manner while using a sexual tone, there was a 'flame' within him that immediately turned on…

It was like the lusty flame within him was being fueled by the images registered in his mind and the sounds entering in his ears, entirely focused on the eye-candy in front of him.

"...?" Penny tilted her head in curiosity as she started to shift her body over Victor's lap. "There's something hard poking me…"

"..." Victor blinked a couple of times and looked back at Penny with wide eyes. He turned back towards Alice and Luka, who were weirdly staring at him. One was holding an amused smirk while the other frowned.

"...Nononono! Hold that up for a second!" Victor immediately shook his hands in panic.

An amused snort escaped from Alice's mouth while Luka simply shook his head with a sigh. "Let's go, we're close to Iliasburg now. We can finally take a rest over there… Oh, by the way." Luka looked at Victor and pointed out. "What are we going to do about Penny's ears?"

"What about my ears?" Penny asked with curiosity, making Victor sigh.

"If you reveal your dog ears to other humans like me and Luka, they might do bad things to you. You don't want that to happen, right?"

"No!" Penny pouted and pumped up her hands.

After a dozen of seconds, a white bonnet with a brim extended on the frontal edges appeared on Victor's hand. Since Penny was already sitting in front of him, he immediately put the bonnet over her head, covering her golden hair by a great deal, which included her dog ears.

The white bonnet matched with her frilly apron, and it immediately changed her appearance from resembling Alice from Wonderland to a little shepherd.

"Keep this on your head until we are alone in a room, okay?"

"Oh my~" Alice commented at the innuendo Victor unconsciously pulled off, making him frown at her with an unamused expression.

"Ha-ha." Victor replied back with a heavy sarcastic tone before he grasped the wheels of his wheelchair and began to roll away from the cliff they were in, reaching once again for the path towards Iliasburg while being followed by Alice and Luka.

Soon, they reached the plains and started to approach the city walls. The walls covered the entire city from terrestrial and external gazes, so they couldn't see anything of what was happening inside.

Yet, there was no need for Victor to see what was going on. The lack of people around the city gate was already enough of a warning to him that he was either on time, or too late.

A wooden board was stuck near the path of soil, which said 'Welcome to Iliasburg!'. It was all written in alien scribbles, similar to the arabian calligraphy, and yet, how did Victor know what was written in it?

He didn't, that's why he is currently frowning…

As if the unexpected shifts from the main history and the expected problems from the canon weren't enough, now he has to deal with the fact that he cannot understand the written language of this world…

An exasperated sigh escaped from Victor, interrupting the silence in the group and attracting Luka's attention.

"Something's wrong?"

"Nothing important." Victor shook his head and continued to wheel towards the hill. Due to the rising land, he needed Luka's help to bring him to the top of the hill, where the city gate is built.

No one was standing on the sides of the gate. No guards, no citizens… Nothing and nobody.

Without even entering the city, there was already a suspicious absence of movement in the main street in front of them, and also no one standing or walking around.

"...What the…? Why is there no one in here?" Luka asked out loudly, staring at the surroundings of the gate. "Won't wild Monsters enter the town if there is no one guarding this place?"

"Well, something has clearly happened." Victor commented with a nonchalant tone. It's not like he is going to fight the hopeless battle ahead of them, and Granberia was no barbarian. She will certainly not look for problems against him as long as he keeps his hands away from her work.

*Whoosh!* A powerful gust of wind slammed on their face with great strength, and it was surprisingly strong enough to push back Victor's wheelchair. He was fortunate to have quick reflexes and grasped the wheels of his chair before he could roll below the hill. Now that would have been a truly unfortunate event…

"What the-!?" Victor yelped in surprise at the force of what should have really been a shockwave. Gust of wind my ass, who decided to throw large explosives?!

"What's going on?!" Luka shouted with equal levels of surprise tinged in his voice. He had paused for a moment after saying those words before Luka curiously shot forward, towards the source of that shockwave.

Victor also began to pick up the pace, although he didn't rush it. Unfortunately, more shockwaves soon followed the first one, which forced Victor to stay behind.

He was really curious at the moment. Victor didn't remember shockwaves of this intensity being present, but to be fair, he was playing a Visual Novel made in 2012, so there wasn't much about graphics to talk about---especially when the game worked with text messages and drawn CGs.

This fact also made him curious about many things, such as the real appearances of the characters in a real world. He would have expected some weird amalgamations among monsters, but he was already taken aback from the beauty that the monsters carried despite existing in a 3rd dimensional world; for that reason, he was curious about the appearances of one of the side characters of this game, Granberia and the rest of the Four Heavenly Knights.

Yet, he didn't seem to have the privilege to even move forward, with the shockwaves pushing him back as hard as they could.

Seeing that there was no progress, Penny jumped off Victor's lap and walked behind him, before she started to push his wheelchair forward.

"I want to help!" She said as she helped Victor make easy progress through the street despite her tiny body.

"Holy… You got quite the strength there!" Victor was once again surprised at the powerful strength that the 1-year-old Penny had on her arms and her legs as she pushed Victor forward with ease.

After what felt like a dozen of minutes, Victor and Penny reached the central plaza too, where they found Luka hiding behind a building with a panicked expression.

Upon seeing the two, Luka urged them to come where he is by waving his hands. Penny pushed Victor in his direction and saluted him.

"Hello!"

"Shhhh!" Luka immediately silenced her with a finger over his mouth. "Hide here, quickly!"

Victor and Penny went behind the building, perfectly hiding behind it. Upon seeing that they had settled down, Luka took a deep breath.

"We might have come to the worst timing possible, Iliasburg is getting invaded…"

"Huh? Who is here?" Penny curiously asked. Luka gulped a mouthful of saliva in answer and replied with a shaky breath.

"G… Granberia is here, one of the Four Heavenly Knights…"

Penny, being Penny, simply tilted her head in curiosity. "Who are they?"

Of course, she was only 1 years old. She didn't know who the Monster Lord is, not to talk about the Four Heavenly Knights.

"Well, what are you waiting here for, to get discovered?" Victor asked with a raised eyebrow, but Luka quickly shook his head.

"Of course not! It's just that I can't leave from here, that would make me a coward…"

"...Penny, can you come here on my lap for a second?" Victor asked as he patted his own lap, and Penny nodded in excitement before she jumped on his thighs. Victor lifted his hands and placed them on where her ears are supposed to be before he looked at Luka.

"Are you fucking serious right now?" Now that there were less risks of Penny hearing a bad word, Victor started to talk.

"..." Luka didn't answer back, letting Victor speak.

"There is literally no one in this world who will blame you for running back to Iliasville, and you decide to stay here and crap on the floor just because you think that running to somewhere more safe than standing 20 meters away from the person in question is something that a coward would do? We aren't in the Carnival yet, stop bullshitting to yourself and decide if you want to pull yourself down from the chair or grab that rope with your fucking throat."

"...That's… That's pretty dark, Victor." Luka commented with a frown hiding his horrified emotions at Victor's words. "...Anyway, there is actually someone else fighting Granberia now…"

Victor remained speechless for a moment, as his lips twitched in disbelief. "And you stay here to wait for your turn? Does-"

Just as he was ready to spit out another row of insults, Luka quickly interrupted him. "No! I know that's the case, but… They are still fighting, even after many minutes…"

"...?" Victor raised an eyebrow.

There was someone that was fighting for this long against Granberia? Did Fate decide to pull out other darts and fuck up what he thought of knowing about this world once again?

Victor decided to take the chance to see beyond the wall's edge. He slowly wheeled towards it and slowly lifted himself up from the wheelchair. Penny jumped off his lap to let him look, and Victor started to move his head beyond the edge of the wall.

Surprisingly, he didn't see anything much in the central plaza, except for the bodies of the many guards that supposedly tried to fight against Granberia to defend this town. Yet, there was no trace of Granberia herself, or her supposed challenger.

*Whoosh!*

"FUCK!" Victor yelped in surprise when a figure appeared right in front of him, with their back turned against him and his group. The figure seemingly blocked an attack that could have probably brought dangerous effects on him if it was successful, or it could be that the shockwave alone could cause great disasters to him.

Finally, he could see the two people he was looking for, or at least only one, since this person was covering his sight with their back.

The person in question is wearing a white tight shirt along with dark cotton pants; there is also a very small white coat behind their back, and many light golden plates covering their shoulders, arms, elbows, and other parts of their body.

Judging from their long brown and voluptuous hair, the curves around their ass and their thin waist, Victor thought that the person is a woman. And now, the said woman is holding up a golden spear to block the attack of a very large metallic sword.

The brown-haired woman looked behind, at Victor and the rest from the corner of her green eyes, and sighed in relief when she saw that no one was harmed.

"Go somewhere sa-" Just as she tried to warn the party group, another feminine voice interrupted her.

"Do you have any free time for getting distracted?!"

Following that, everything in Victor's point of view blurred away in an instant as he was picked up and kidnapped away by the brown-haired woman.

…

Victor Luis' (future) Trivia Book: Ores

In the entire world, there are many kinds of materials that can be used for many things: Jelly from Slime Girls, Mucus from Slug Girls, Magic-Imbued Plants from Alraunes, and so on. The entire page wouldn't be enough to describe all the possible materials existing, so let's talk about the 'main components', what makes the material more important than others.

They are called 'Ores', and despite the name, they aren't all metals. However, they are used to build the skeleton of many kinds of things, and they are mostly used to build the main body of weapons from blacksmiths.

The most common Ore utilized widely in the world is called Iron. I'm sure that you all know about it, but I'll explain it anyway.

Iron is a common metal utilized widely to make tools, weapons, and armors for various armies in Ilias Continent. It's hardness is ranked as 2nd on the Gnome Scale, and it is used everywhere. Even your kitchenware is made out of Iron. However, the use of Iron excels most in Pornof Village, due to the iron mine standing just some distance away from the village.

Because of their close contact with Iron, they are very good at bringing out the best out of Iron thanks to the ore and many different materials used in combination with it.

After Iron, there is Gold. It might be surprising for you to hear about it, if you didn't know it already. But although Gold has a hardness ranked as 1st on the Gnome Scale, much softer than Iron, depending on who is utilizing it, its hardness can greatly surpass Iron and reach the 3rd rank.

Gold is utilized mostly in Midas Village, forged together with other kinds of metals to create a gold alloy that permits it to become extremely hard while also retaining the main properties of Gold. Because of this, Midas' golden tools and weapons are great against lightning.

They can be used as lightning poles, or to fight against lightning-attributed Monsters. Not just that, through a special forging technique, it is possible to fill the golden weapon with lightning, making it possible to attack the seemingly-invincible Ghost Girls and deal destructive damage against Slimes and Slugs, bypassing their soft defenses.

Beyond Gold, things start to get more exaggerated, by introducing Mithril. This kind of metal isn't really present in Ilias Continent unless it is transported from Sentora. It is mainly used in San Ilia, due to the presence of a Mithril mine on a mountain near the city.

Unlike Gold, Mithril doesn't have any special properties, but it is easily ranked at the 5th place in the Gnome Scale, closing up to the 6th rank. By then, that kind of Ore is able to resist the vicious strangling of a Lamia's tail and not show any bent part.

Then there is actual diamond used to make armors, although they are more commonly known as Crystals. They are present specifically in the Safina Region due to the reflective properties the armors made up of crystal possess, being able to reflect away the terrifying heat rays of the sun in the desert.

Wearing that armor, you are safe even when fighting against giant monsters such as Sandworm Girls thanks to their 6th rank on the Gnome Scale, if you don't get murdered by the mere after-impact of their attack of course. Every soldier of Sabasa Kingdom possesses a Crystal Armor, which is the main reason why the Sabasan Army is also nicknamed as the 'Sabasan Sandstorm'.

Thanks to their armor, they don't have to worry about suffocating within it due to the heat and light being reflected away; combined with the fact that they are trained to fight in harsh areas such as sand, they are the best human fighters you can find in a desert.

Things start to get serious now, by introducing Dragon Bones. Although they are clearly not metals, they are used almost to a daily occurence in Grand Noah, especially focused for weapons and armors due to the presence of their famous Colosseum built in.

They possess the 7th rank in the Gnome Scale, so hard that you could make a shovel out of it and dig all the way to the very core of the world before the shovel starts to show signs of melting. Coming from the skeletons of ancient dragons who have died in the Great Monster War, they show unprecedented levels of hardness against attacks and time itself. The dragon scales were already stronger than steel, not to talk about their own bones.

After Dragon Bones, there is the divine metal, Orichcalcum. It shows the mystical property of keeping away any kind of magical attack, and its hardness is matched by the Dragon Bones, both of them being at the 7th rank in the Gnome Scale.

This metal is utilized mostly in the Gold Region to develop their new technology. In rare cases, you might be able to find Orichcalcum elsewhere that might be shipped there from the Grangold. However, because of its hardness, not anyone can simply use this Ore to forge items.

But fortunately, due to their closeness with the Gold Volcano, the blacksmiths who wish to forge items with this metal can ask for Salamander's blessing to utilize flames that are powerful enough to melt the Ore, or directly leave the job to a Dragon Girl and her hellish flames.

Surprisingly, the next Ore is actually Rainbow. It might sound weird, but even if they are few, there are places where Rainbow is utilized to create many tools.

If you didn't hear about it, do not be sad about it. This Ore is used only in the Fairy Island, where the magical fairies living there use their powers to give shape to the rainbow and create their preferred tools.

Although it is ranked at the 8th place in the Gnome Scale, there is virtually no way for people to forget items with this Rainbow, because it can be only utilized through magic. And once it is given shape, the Rainbow will turn into a Prism, which completely reflects away any magical power except for Dark and Holy Energy. As another bonus, it doesn't carry any weight, so you can wear as much Prism as you want and not feel anything.

And finally there is the last Ore. Although it is called Ore, it already lost its classification long time ago, ever since the Great Monster War ended. That is because this kind of Ore was not only extremely limited in nature, it was also impossible to utilize in normal circumstances.

It is acknowledged as Meteor, the otherworldly Ore. As its name suggests, it came from Space, compressed to a point where its atoms are glued to each other. It is still a miracle that the Ore didn't manifest a black hole with the sheer amount of density it had packed in.

You would need to have a monstrous physical power to lift tools and armors made up of Meteor, if you could even get one in the first place. There were only two people who were able to use this Ore to produce tools: Randolph, the legendary Blacksmith; and Tamamo-no-Mae, thanks to her mastery over the magical power of Earth and her own ancient techniques learned back in the old times.

As an example of how much strength you need to lift this kind of Ore, the Heavenly Knight of Fire, Granberia, needed two hands to properly utilize a large sword entirely made up of Meteor, and she is probably the strongest Dragon Monster alive.

According to the Gnome Scale, it is ranked at the 10th. Technically, it would be unclassified. The only reason why the Gnome Scale skips the 9th rank is because there is no comparison between Meteor and the second strongest material in the world.

Imagine being such an absolute unit of an Ore that they have to bring out a proxy rank and a real one at a higher rank than the former just to classify your magnificent hardness.