Anime, starting from Re:Zero (Zero - Starting Life)

“There’s no discussion of math.”

Gao Wen decided to give up comforting this uneducated man.

They did not rush to the next maze, but instead transported the supplies they had obtained to the southern countries. Elina Lijie's team had just moved to the Kika Kingdom two days ago and was in need of supplies.

Of course, more importantly, the time for the second location search agreed upon with the human god was approaching. Gawain decided to change his previous conservative strategy and ask Lijie's mother and the others to intuitively select a number of mazes to try their luck. Besides that, he also wanted to check on the progress of the search and rescue mission in the dense forest.

When Gawain and Lokisi arrived at the temporary headquarters of the Southern Nations Rescue Team, Talhand was not there. Only Elina Lijie, who was temporarily in charge of the headquarters, and Keith, who had just returned from negotiations, were there.

After they heard Gawain's thoughts, Elinarize immediately looked at Keith:

"According to the old rules, we should ask Gileno for help with this kind of thing, right?"

Keith held his head and smiled:

"Brother, when the Black Wolf Fang was undecided in the past, they always let Gilenu make the choice. Why don't you go to the Zone of Strife and ask her to draw lots for you?"

The veteran adventurer Lokishi was accustomed to this kind of customary practice, but Gawain was shocked by it. He did have the idea of ​​trying his luck, but this was a bit too superstitious.

Seeing Gawain's expression, Keith seemed to be in a dilemma. He held his chin and frowned for a long time before finally sighing and speaking:

"Forget it, that guy is no longer the same fool as before. Let me do it this time. It's not against the rules."

Elina Lijie was a little surprised:

"you sure?"

Keith folded his arms and nodded:

"After all, this is part of a thief's job!"

So, Keith pulled Gawain into a separate small meeting room, and Lokisi walked up and took the initiative to talk to Elinalize.

Lokishi asked Elinarize a few questions that had been bothering her recently, all of which were related to Gawain's upbringing or physical characteristics:

"...When he was little, his..."

"There's no difference between him and a normal human boy, huh? At least in appearance. I know a lot about this, after all."

"...was it written all over his face like later..."

"Although he always has a stern face, he's actually quite understandable. I also wrote something like this in my letter to Lorce. I never thought that idiot Gawain would remain like that for years. Fortunately, he's a little more normal now."

"...Calling mom, why is it so touching..."

"Because I felt it very early, probably when Gawain was about one year old? In fact, I could clearly feel that this child was very attached to me and cared about me, but he was always awkward and wanted to resist. You should also know about my private life, right? Although I don't think it's shameful, it's another matter when I have a child, right? As a woman, I don't hate my current situation, but being a mother is always different. So, I always wondered if this was the reason why this precocious little guy became like this. I regard him as my son, and he may also want to regard me as his mother, but I am not worthy of being his mother, especially after some bad things happened later, this idea became even stronger, so I sent him to Buena Village."

Luo Qixi felt that she understood.

It is completely abnormal for Gawain to become what he is now. Just like Sylphy has blinded him to the common sense of the human world, his understanding of himself is also wrong.

She decided to wait until this incident was over before choosing a suitable time to tell Gao Wen her speculation. This way, she wouldn't have to worry about affecting his emotional state too seriously.

Luo Qixi comforted Elina Lijie:

"Ms. Elina Lijie, things aren't what you think. Gawain's situation is actually very special, and we haven't fully understood it yet. Once this incident is over, he can come clean to you. This is all the fault of that guy and some other weird people. There's nothing wrong with you. Don't keep blaming yourself."

Elina Lijie covered her mouth and chuckled:

"us."

Loki protested:

"That's not what I meant!"

On the other hand, Keith also successfully screened out forty mazes by methods such as throwing dice, drawing lots, and blind guessing, and sorted them according to his intuition.

Gawain flipped through the information on the forty mazes:

"We should be able to explore endlessly in the next three or four days."

Keith wondered:

"Brother, the mazes you explored before were all the most difficult ones, right? These mazes this time are generally not that difficult. With your speed, one or two hours per maze is not unusual, right?"

Gawain pondered for a moment. Strictly speaking, what affected his search speed was never the difficulty of the maze, but whether it was convenient to dismantle it. An S-class maze like the Black Iron Maze would only take an hour to complete as long as it was easy to dismantle. During this period, an A-class maze that was impossible to dismantle even trapped them for a whole day.

He took another look. There were only six S-level mazes among the forty. Judging from the intelligence, the most time-consuming one was probably the [Transfer Maze] ranked 40th. Although according to the intelligence from Lijie's mother, few people were willing to go to this maze a long time ago, the hierarchical structure was quite fragile and there were sophisticated transfer magic circles everywhere. It would be easy to cause problems if you messed around.

In fact, when Gawain saw the brief intelligence on the [Transfer Labyrinth], he had intended to prioritize exploring it. However, the detailed assessments given by Lijie's mother and the other two indicated a lower priority, so Gawain followed suit. After all, his thinking was just intuition. If the transfer magic circle could truly influence the outcome of the mass transfer, wouldn't the refugees from Fitoya Territory in the transfer labyrinth be piled up like a mountain?

Anyway, he nodded:

"Try it."

After all, it was just a matter of trying his luck. Gawain had been prepared from the beginning to get no results. You know, they still had nearly three hundred target mazes to explore.

This is only taking the maze into account.

After finishing the first task, Keith took the lead in reporting on the contact with several tribes in the dense forest area. He was also quite good at this.

Under the coordination of the Kingdom of King Dragon, several large tribes in the southern part of the dense forest area allowed the search and rescue activities within their sphere of influence and hired and dispatched some tribal warriors to help.

The central area has not yet been penetrated.

As for the north, because it is too close to human countries and lacks natural barriers, it is a relatively pure primitive jungle with almost no intelligent races living in it. The progress of advancement is currently limited to hiring some hunters familiar with the outer terrain to help lead the way and sending some hired adventurer teams to go in for search and rescue.

Gao Wen was quite satisfied with the progress.

After all, he couldn't move freely in that place with lush vegetation.

Chapter 65 Turning Point (2)

Chapter 65 Dream (2)

October 25, 417 Jialong calendar year

I explored another 36 mazes, but found nothing.

At home in Silla, Gawain fell asleep again, or rather, dreamed, on Lokisi's lap.

[Unknown pure white space]

【Hi.】

【See you again! 】

"You seem to be having a pretty fulfilling life lately, but I wasn't in good shape, so I couldn't watch the whole thing. What a shame. Did you know? The ambiguous part of the story is always the audience's favorite, and I'm no exception!"

I came on time as promised, man-god.

Stop talking if you're bored.

[Aiya! I did you a big favor after all, so I should have chatted with you for a bit. You have no idea how lonely and bored I am.]

Okay, what do you want to talk about?

I don't mind this moment.

"What elitism! You don't want to waste even a second! You have a lifespan that's so long, more than a hundred times longer than your family and friends. Why not relax and spend more time with them? You don't need this time anyway, and your enemies have almost reached their natural limits, right? Why be so anxious?"

What you said makes sense. After rescuing my parents and helping you deal with your enemies, I will probably really do this. I will first enjoy a leisurely life for 150 years, and then study how to leave the human world.

【Don't forget to come back and save me? 】

Why does the high and mighty God need me to save him?

"Even though the human world is a distorted place, it's still very valuable to you, to all of you, right? I want to rest, not work! How wonderful it is to be free? You know how frustrating it is to be bound even though you're incredibly powerful, right?"

Not really. I don't resist my obligations and I even look forward to the day when I will accept them.

【You are still young! 】

Can we get down to business now?

"Come on, chat with me for a bit! I'm done helping you peek into your destiny, and I don't have the energy to chat anymore! I know you're not good at starting conversations, so I'll do it. I have so much to talk about!"

Ok.

"Speaking of which, your first stop was the Demon Cave, right? But I couldn't see inside, so I don't know what happened. Can you tell me what you saw in the Guardian's room?"

Luo Qixi and I have mentioned this a few times outside, right? Golden armor.

"I didn't hear anything! But, as for the golden armor, it's probably that. So that thing really was swallowed by the Demon Cave! That's great!"

Do you know about the Fighting God Armor?

[Hmm? How do you know the name of that thing? You haven't tried it on, have you?]

With a touch, the information was transmitted.

"Luckily, you didn't wear it. That thing is extremely harmful to the wearer. While it grants the wearer enough power to destroy continents and virtually limitless knowledge of combat and magic, simply donning it places a heavy strain on the wearer's body, draining them of vast amounts of mana with even the slightest use. Those who have used it in history have met with disaster, even the undead demons have suffered."

Its hardness is not high.

The Battle God Armor's strength lies in its resilience. You should be able to break it easily. However, it regenerates instantly, so even with your current strength, you definitely can't completely destroy it. So, I'm worried that you've put it on and then torn it apart and escaped. If that happens, you might be bewitched by it.

For power? Knowledge? I would certainly do that, but I'd have to wait at least another 150 years. I won't disrupt my peaceful life for something like that.

"That's good. You can take it with you when the time comes, right? Leaving it in the human world will eventually cause trouble."

Are you afraid of it?

【Aren't you good at bringing up topics? 】

"That's about right. After all, the birth of the Lingus Sea is related to that thing. You must have heard of this legend, right? The Battle God Armor is the golden armor in the legend."

"If this level of power were to be used recklessly in the human world, I don't need to tell you the consequences, right? Its threat level, in my opinion, is only slightly lower than yours."

My pleasure.

[Oh, just think of it as someone praising you! ]

"Now that I've said all that, I'll just tell you a story! That thing is actually the [Fighting God] on the Great Power Rankings. It was created by the Dragon King Laplace as a tool to kill me."

Dragon King Laplace?

"Hmm. Last time we talked about the Age of Mythology, right? In the dragon world, besides the wicked Bad Dragon God, who reigns supreme, there are also the five Dragon Generals who betrayed and fought against him. But in reality, there are only four Dragon Generals who betrayed the Dragon God, who constantly destroyed other worlds. The fifth Dragon General, who did not participate in that battle and always sided with the Bad Dragon God and aided him, is the Demon Dragon King Laplace, son of the Bad Dragon God, a hybrid of demon and dragon, born evil."

Although I don't know the full story, before his death, the Evil Dragon God left his most important legacy to the Demon Dragon King Laplace and sent him to the world of the last remaining human. Because of that legacy, I couldn't pinpoint him from the beginning, and could only deduce his existence from other events.

The Demon Dragon King Laplace has been gathering the knowledge and power of various races, preparing for something. He even participated in and even led the Human-Demon War. Fortunately, during the Second Human-Demon War, my apostle discovered the hiding place of the Battle God Armor and seized it. With the Battle God Armor's power, he was able to barely fight against the Demon Dragon King Laplace. Before his death, he successfully interfered with the Demon Dragon King Laplace's secret technique, causing him to split apart.

[That's right, the Demon God Laplace is the demon half of the Demon Dragon King Laplace, and the God of Skill, who is the first among the Seven Great Powers, inherited the other half of the dragon.]

[The first four of the Seven Great Powers are all descendants of dragons. Rather, even the Great Powers Stele itself is a creation of the God of Skill, Laplace. I suspect it's a tool used to lock onto and monitor the powerful in the human world. If possible, I wouldn't recommend you making the list, even though it's certainly impressive!]

So, what does he want to do? Kill you? Wouldn't it be enough to just destroy the human world?

[Let me be clear in advance, this is just speculation.]

[Perhaps it's to seize my power? The gods of the six-sided world all possess a core of power called the [Divine Jade]. The Bad Dragon God personally killed four gods and seized their Divine Jades, including the Bad Dragon God's own. The Demon Dragon King Laplace and the Bad Dragon God's youngest son inherited a total of five Divine Jades.]

"I've said that before, haven't I? The Six-Faced World is an incomplete world, the final work of the Creator God in his waning years. We, the six great gods, are shadow administrators, created using the Creator God himself as a template. Perhaps the Evil Dragon God wants to gather all the Divine Jades to gain the power of creation? In that case, destroying the human world to kill me is pointless. After all, my true form resides in another realm accessible only to gods, perhaps called the Divine Realm? Even after the human world is destroyed, I can still linger a little longer to destroy my Divine Jade, so they have no choice but to choose other methods to seize the complete Divine Jade."

Youngest son?

[Hmm! I hate to admit it, but by the way, that child is actually my grandson. I had a very close relationship with the Dragon God back then, even marrying my daughter to him. I always thought that guy, despite his scary appearance and bad attitude, was actually a kind and gentle person. I never expected that he would not only kill my newly born daughter, but also use this as an excuse to lure and kill the demon god who posed the greatest threat to him.]

[But even gods like that probably value their own children, right? Take, for example, the Dragon King Laplace.]

So the enemy you want me to kill should be your grandson, right?

[Not sure, huh? But honestly, he's the most likely candidate.]

[However, I still haven't figured out why that child only became active recently, tens of thousands of years after the destruction of the Dragon Realm, so I'm not sure if it's him.]

You have deep feelings for him.

After all, he's the son of an only daughter. Besides, he's been deceived, right? He doesn't know his father was the one who killed his mother. Besides, as I mentioned earlier, Laplace's secret technique is actually a dragon's secret method of reincarnation. While I don't think it's on a scale suitable for even gods, I don't rule out the possibility that the Evil Dragon God is using my grandson as a vehicle for resurrection. The Demon Dragon King Laplace might have been researching this technology.

[By the way, your sister's hair color was mutated by the factor of the Demon God Laplace, and so was Rudeus-kun's terrifyingly large magical power.]

Laplace factor?

The carrier of the reincarnation secret technique records the genetic information, memories, and abilities of the caster. For example, Sylphiet inherited the hair color of the demon god Laplace, and Rudeus inherited his immense magical power. But don't worry, they only have a portion of it.

[It will take at least a hundred years for the Demon God Laplace to be resurrected, so there is no need to worry for now.]

Thank you for telling me this.

Although I feel like I'm being used, the Demon God has been my target from the beginning.

"Oh, don't always think so badly of me! Even without your help, I wouldn't lose to an enemy as strong as Demon God Laplace. Besides, thanks to you, I also found the location of the Battle God Armor."

Tools should be used.