Re:Zero - Jobless Reincarnation: Succubus Sword God? I don't recognize it!

Chapter 439: Top Green Brother Laplace Arrives at the Eastern Coastline of the Conflict Zone
"Oh, by the way, I have just used up all my magic power. Do you have any magic stones I can use?"

Alan looked at the magic stone in Laplace's hand.

The latter looked at Alan's face.

He didn't even look down at the magic stone in his hand, but just stopped muttering and spoke slowly.

"No."

Alan looked at the magic stone in his hand and continued.

“I heard from Cole that in order to return to the sea surface, the sea people need to go to the land first. They need to use the magic stone to cast a summoning spell on Leviathan and summon Leviathan out of the sea. Only then can I return to the outside world.

The current situation is that I have no magic power, and they have no magic power either, and after I return to the surface of the sea."

Alan stopped talking at this point, showing a slightly embarrassed look.

".There is no ship yet. I remember that the ship we entered into the "Abyss Sea" was broken into pieces, and more than a year has passed in the outside world."

Laplace continued, "It has been one year and one hundred and sixty-seven days since you entered the Abyssal Sea."

Allen frowned and looked at the magic circle on the ground. "Indeed, it has been too long."

He paused for a moment, then looked at Laplace again with an urgent expression: "One month in the Abyss is equivalent to one and a half years in the outside world. During this period, my relatives and friends have been aging. When I was suddenly affected by the disaster of the Great Transfer, I still had urgent matters to deal with.

It seems that I have left a mess for my relatives and friends.

Perhaps while I am talking to you now, many accidents have already happened to them.

I don't have much time to waste.
"God of Skills", I know that magic stones are very scarce in the "Abyss", but I think the magic power required for you to control Leviathan should be far less than that required to use prophecy once.

This time I will lend you the Instant Magic Stone. After I solve the problem at hand, I will come back and return the Magic Stone to you.

There is a time difference between the outside world and the "Abyss Sea". I think you didn't actually consume much magic power while I took care of things outside. "

After saying this, everything Alan said seemed to be about his own situation.

But the God of Skills Laplace's face turned green after hearing this.

He opened his mouth, wanting to refute Alan's words, but after a long time he couldn't say anything.

Are you being stingy with potential allies and unwilling to give up some magic stones?
It's really not.

This kind of mutually beneficial behavior should actually be done, so that in the future it can be used as a favor to force Allen to help him do something.

Why not?
This was the method he used to select the heroes back then.

What is taken beforehand must be given beforehand.

Only then can he get whatever he wants and make the brave men willingly work for him, the 'old man in the mountain'.

Laplace is no longer the simple son adopted by the first generation Dragon God. After years of hard work, he has already become an outstanding PUA master.

But why did he reject Allen's proposal so straightforwardly just now?

Because Laplace didn't feel sorry for these magic stones at all.

The fundamental reason why he rejected Allen's request for the magic stone to restore magic power was not at all to save magic power as Allen "thought".

It was simply because this was the magic stone left behind by Elinalize.

To be honest, after the God of Skills Laplace recovered his memory, he actually felt a strong sense of guilt towards Elinalise.

Firstly, although she had never regarded this child as a maid, in fact, everything she did was like that of a maid, and her daily life in Longming Mountain was indeed taken care of by this child.

That period of time can be said to be one of the few relaxing moments in memory.

Now that he has become an old scholar living alone, deep in his heart he always misses those days in his memory from time to time.

Secondly, when he was faced with the dilemma of how to defeat the human-god, it was this child who stepped forward and used himself as the 'experimental material' to solve the magic problem of Orsted, which was the most troubling problem at the time. However, when the transformation experiment began, he had to go to deal with the Second Human-Demon War and never returned.

She slept in Longming Mountain for thousands of years, and her body still had strong side effects from the experiment after she woke up.

Thirdly, it's just like what Alan said, 'a mess'.

It is true that he fell into the trap of the human god and died in the Second Human-Demon War, but he did leave a fatal "mess" for Elina Lijie, and then he made one mistake after another.

After recovering his memory, he went to look for Elinalize and found that she had lost her memories of the past and had been rescued by human adventurers. She was living a happy time in the gathering place of her own kind.

I felt inexplicably moved at the time and thought it was a good thing to do so, so I stopped bothering the other person.

As a result, after studying the prophecy technique in the "Abyss Sea" for a period of time, one day he suddenly decided to use the prophecy technique to see Elina Lijie.
Only then did she realize that her life had changed drastically. Her past happy life was shattered. Now she was sold all over the Asura Kingdom by human traffickers as a tool to make money, and she was living an extremely miserable life.

The root cause is the side effects of the original experiment.

Even according to the prophecy, she would soon be sold to the continent of Milis, where she would once again suffer tremendous physical and mental torture.

That's why he changed the "future" by rescuing her at sea, and then used the dragon clan's secret technique to dilute some of her tragic memories of the past, and sent her back to the ground, becoming a free-spirited adventurer. He also thought about whether he should keep Elina Lijie in the "Abyss Sea" forever.

But it is a pity.
He found that his own abilities could not completely solve the problem of Elinalize's excess magic power.

But if that's the case, do I have to personally help Elina Lijie solve her physiological needs of expelling the magic stone? ?

Are you kidding me?
This child was raised by me, and how can the dragon tribe be with the long-eared tribe?
Anyway, Laplace thought about it and felt that something was wrong, so he put Elinalize back on the surface of the sea, and then returned to the "Abyss" to use the prophecy again.

The conclusion is.
In the future, there is a boy named Cliff from Miris. He completely accepts Elinalize's past and lives a wonderful life with him, making love every night, no, being happy every night.

well.

Although at that time, the dragon watching the live broadcast of the future bed to Laplace was numb.

But he felt that this might be the best outcome for Elina Lijie.

This is why he refused to let Alan use the magic stone.

He forced himself not to think about Elinalize anymore.

However, whenever he used the magic stones left in the laboratory, he honestly maintained the minimum usage to preserve as much as possible.

Because if you use one, you have one less.

It's also because of this.

Although he threw the memories of Elinalize into the "Fighting God Armor", after seeing the things left by Elinalize, he still had a scholar's syndrome and kept looking for the lost memories.

Instead, the traces of Elina Lijie left in his mind became deeper and deeper, and his guilt not only did not subside, but increased day by day.

While Laplace's expression changed slightly several times, Allen looked at his expression and thought to himself, "It's done."

From the moment the conversation was about to end, all his subsequent words had a clear element of inducement, and he ultimately succeeded in bringing the topic into the information asymmetry trap he had prepared.

——The magic stone should not be something of much value; Allen and the "God of Skill" Laplace both knew that the magic stone was very valuable to Laplace; but the "God of Skill" Laplace did not know that Allen had already deduced his actions based on the situation of Elinalize in the "Abyss".

After that, Allen smoothly constructed an abnormal dialogue: he used the magic stone to throw out the first request that Laplace would most likely not accept, and then led to his second request.

Based on the principle of mutual concession
——When Allen lowers his demands (from a big request to a small one) after being rejected, Laplace will feel a sense of obligation to "repay the other party's compromise" and will tend to accept the second request.

Relief of cognitive dissonance
——Refusing Allen's request to borrow the magic stone will cause "God of Skills" Laplace to feel guilty about his ally ("Am I too inhumane?"). Accepting the second request can alleviate this discomfort and maintain his self-image ("I am an old man in the mountains, but I am actually willing to help others").

and the face-saving effect
——First make a big request that is likely to be rejected, then make a small request that is actually your goal. Because the other party has already been rejected once, their psychological defenses are lowered and they are more likely to accept the subsequent request.

The next step for Laplace is to agree to his second request.
No, the second request I made was to borrow the magic stone, but it would be considered a 'borrow' and I would return it.

This is the same logic as the first request.

Laplace would still refuse, but he couldn't say no.

so.
He will 'make it up'.

And it's 'free compensation'.

As expected, Laplace sighed and spoke.

"I don't want to share the magic stone with you. It has nothing to do with whether it is scarce or not. Anyway, you want to return to land as soon as possible? I will call on Leviathan to send you there. No, wherever you go first, as long as it is a coastline, I will take you there."

Alan 'breathes a sigh of relief'.

“That’s great, I’ll definitely remember that.”

Laplace waved his hand.

"I just did it casually. This is also a sign of my sincerity towards my potential allies in the future."

".I see."

-

The journey to the Strife Zone was shorter than Alan had imagined.

According to the map in Allen's mind, if they want to enter the Lingus Sea and then rush to the dispute zone, they must bypass the East Port of the Wanglong Kingdom and make a big circle to pass through the dispute zone.

However, Leviathan was controlled by the god of skills Laplace to sneak all the way through the abyss under the continent and swam directly under the continental plates.

The speed was faster than Alan had imagined.

Just less than half an hour.

They arrived at the coastline of the disputed zone in the eastern part of the central continent.

(End of this chapter)