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I Got a New Skill Every Time I Was Exiled, and After 100 Different Worlds, I Was Unmatched (Web Novel) - Chapter 332: Understanding the Situation, But Breaking Through is Another Matter
Chapter 332: Understanding the Situation, But Breaking Through is Another Matter
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“Stinks!”“Kyaa!? What!?”
As I jumped up screaming loudly, in front of me was an elf girl expressing her surprise… or rather, it was Tia. Huh? Tia? I… where was I?
“Huh?”
“Good morning, Ed. You woke up rather early this time, didn’t you?”
Tia, closing the book she held with a snap, looked into my face with a smile. At the same time, memories of “me,” which had been pushed away to the edge, came rushing back like a wave, and for a while, I just stared blankly back at Tia’s face.
“……………………..”
“Ed? Are you okay? Do you feel unwell somewhere?”
“No, it’s not like that. I think I just got too involved with ‘that guy’… Wait, where’s the ‘Fragment of God’?”
“It’s over there.”
Following Tia’s gaze, I saw a fragment of God soaked in black desire laid on the table. It might not have been dirty, but I had a hard time imagining eating at that table without moving it away first.
“You fainted shortly after that, Ed. So I laid you on the bed and watched over you…”
“I see. Huh? So not much time has passed?”
“Maybe around three hours?”
“Ohh…”
I felt like I had spent a considerable amount of time over there, but if it was just three hours… I didn’t even know whether that was fast or slow, but if it had only been three hours, I was lucky.
“So, did you find out what you wanted to know? Ah, do you want to rest a bit before talking?”
“No, I’ll talk now. I don’t feel tired or anything… Ah, but I could use some water.”
“Is that so? Here you go, then.”
“Thanks.”
Tia poured water from a jug beside the bed into a cup and handed it to me. I took it and drank, moistening my surprisingly dry mouth, and felt the cold sensation slide down my throat.
“Ahh, I feel better. Now, where to start… or should I just spill everything from the beginning?”
“It would be best to tell everything as it is, so I can also judge the information.”
“Alright then. Let me start from the beginning—”
Saying that, I began recounting the events I had just experienced. Tia listened patiently until the end while rocking her body slightly, and then slowly opened her mouth.
“I see… Sorry, there’s too much information, I can’t process it all.”
“Figured as much. Me neither.”
I unintentionally chuckled at Tia’s puzzled expression. Any rational person would find it difficult to react to such a story in any way other than dismissing it as ‘drunken nonsense.’
“So, are you okay with the academy? You said it changed, right?”
“If you ask whether I’m okay with it or not, I’m not. But we don’t get to choose when we enter different worlds, so there’s nothing we can do.”
Like with Rain, if we could enter a world at the right timing, there’d be something we could do. But like with Harris, if everything’s gone to hell by the time we get there, the worst we can do is defeat the Demon King ourselves and get expelled by the hero that was born because I entered.
“Hmm, even with prior information, we can only be reactive.”
“Exactly. We’re fundamentally dancing on the palm of God.”
“And the Fragments of God destroying the worlds too…”
“Yeah, there’s nothing we can do.”
I grimaced at Tia’s sinking words.
“If we enter other worlds and they exist there like ‘Winged Ones,’ we could defeat them in the future. But if not, there’s nothing we can do… I mean, we can’t even enter a broken world in the first place.”
“Right, yeah…”
At the present moment, I had no way of knowing how many of the 200 worlds that had increased were still remaining. It’s possible that none of them had been destroyed yet, but on the other hand, there was also the possibility that 98 of them, other than the past and current worlds, had already been ruined.
Even in the worlds we had saved, there was the possibility that a new “Winged One” could come from another world and cause it to collapse once again. If that were to happen, we, who could never revisit the same world twice, would not even be permitted to resist.
“…So, basically, even though I understand various circumstances, nothing has actually changed in what we can do?”
“That’s how it is. Well, we’re dealing with a god, so there’s no way we can compete in the first place.”
“Yeah, I get that, but…”
Though I am the Demon King, my vessel is that of a human. While it might be possible to compete if I actively collect power and discard my human vessel, the moment I cease to be human, there would be no point in opposing a god.
And Tia, although she has a slight mixture of the Demon King’s soul, is essentially just an elf. There’s no way she can do anything about a god who is, literally, in a different dimension.
“Ugh! This is so frustrating! Gods should be like natural phenomena. Hmmph!”
“Calm down. I get how you feel.”
For example, if it starts raining the moment you hang out the laundry, most people would think, “Oh, I’m unlucky today.”
But that’s because they assume that the rain falls due to natural laws, devoid of malice. If they knew that someone deliberately decided to make it rain, it would be natural to complain about that entity.
Similarly, if the world’s collapse proceeded in a form that appeared like natural phenomena like earthquakes or droughts, we would probably have simply moved on to the next world without doing anything. Investigating and resolving the causes of abnormal climate changes on a global scale would be a problem for the people of that world to solve over decades or even centuries.
However, the God manifests as a very clear threat by sending a fragment of itself into the world in human form and hurling weapons at the ground. When faced with such a distinct “enemy,” it’s only natural for anyone, not just me, to want to resist or defeat it.
“Really, is it because they fear me that they resort to such complicated and roundabout methods? If they just leave me alone, I have no intention of doing anything…”
From the contact with the fragment of god, I got the impression that god seems to be afraid of me. For a transcendental being who’s absolutely invincible, an entity that can kill—or end—them would certainly be an object of fear.
But I’m not amused to be feared, disassembled, and imprisoned in a narrow world, and then to have my peace threatened further. It doesn’t seem that they intended to separate Tia and me, so I wouldn’t mind letting up on beating them to a pulp as an initial measure…
“Anyway, the first step would be to meet and have a talk, I guess.”
“Meet and talk… Can we even do that?”
“Don’t make that face. I think we can… To be more precise, I have a clue to facilitate that.”
I say with a light smile to Tia, who makes a suspicious face.
“In a world we haven’t visited yet, there’s an event where a hero receives a divine weapon directly from God. If we can locate that place, then maybe…”
“Oh, right, I’ve heard of those kinds of stories in heroic tales. But are they really receiving it from God? Isn’t it just a metaphor?”
“I can’t say for sure, as I haven’t witnessed it.”
In the first round, I was expelled from the hero party before such an event occurred. So although I had heard that something like that happens afterward, I had never actually seen it.
“But it’s not entirely impossible, right? After all, there is a God.”
“…That’s true.”
We don’t question the most doubtful part of such stories, namely the “existence of God.” So the notion of God giving a weapon falls from a miraculous event to something akin to a king giving a reward to a hero in some country.
“So, our immediate goal is to find that world?”
“That’s right. So, I’m counting on you from now on, Tia.”
“Yes, me too. Looking forward to it, Ed.”
Tia lightly tapped her hand against the palm of my outstretched right hand. And so, once again, we set a target beyond the worlds.
