"We found you when you were killing the velociraptors at the entrance of that dungeon," Alissa explained. "Although, Orgar didn't think you were anything special, we didn't find anyone in thousands of kilometers soloing dungeons."
"… What do you mean by that?" Ryan frowned. "Can you teleport or something? Besides, if you were watching me, I would have noticed."
"I don't think so," Alissa said. "Can you feel the presence of someone twenty kilometers above you? While I inherited some of Orgar's power, he can't teleport, but he can fly pretty fast. So, in the last few days, we studied and watched many survivors' camp. While we found some individuals with potential, I didn't like them. Even though Orgar told me that they could be useful."
"… What is the difference between them and me?" Ryan asked.
"While you can help others now and then, you don't want to be a leader and rebuild human society," Alissa replied. "You want to keep improving yourself without having to become a member of other survivors' camps. More importantly, you are not a hypocrite that wanted to make a good place for the survivors now that the world is in this situation."
Those were some harsh words, but Ryan could see where Alissa was coming from. He couldn't quite imagine how his past self would cope with life in the hospital, a weak body, and disease that slowly might kill him, but the current self wouldn't cope well with it. Still, even Ryan couldn't think that Cole, John, and Lilian were hypocrites. They were a bunch of idiots, but not hypocrites, at least from his perspective.
It was quite weird seeing a woman who could show such a pure smile to have so many dark thoughts inside her, but it was understandable. In any case, the last thing Ryan wanted was to get involved with others, but in the current situation, he couldn't exactly refuse Alissa's favor. Even though she didn't say that yet, it was clear that she was the one who saved him after he defeated the red dragon. He owed her, and Ryan hated that feeling, and he would hate it even more if he keeps owing her for a long time.
"All right then," Ryan said. "Since I owe you, I will try to obtain the intel you need. However, I plan to do it alone."
"That won't do," Alissa shook her head. "Your movement speed can't even be compared to ours. While we don't want to slow down on your goal of seeking power, it will be more efficient if we work together. Besides, I doubt that you will find useful information on the human said."
"… Where exactly do you plan to obtain that information then?" Ryan frowned.
"Although Orgar doesn't remember about his past, he is a dragon that knows how magic usually works," Alissa said. "The process was different, but the basis is the same, dragons came from somewhere, but they don't know since they were forcefully teleported and have amnesia. However, things change when we are talking about dungeons. Those purple crystals don't spawn monsters… they bring them to Earth from other worlds."
That made sense… even if it was a crazy magic apocalypse, the amount of energy to create a complex lifeform was supposed to be hard and expensive in terms of mana. However, teleportation probably is much simpler.
"I see… so you want to investigate those other worlds and search for clues," Ryan said. "That seems interesting, but I don't plan to do that often if I don't find dungeons in those other worlds."
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