A flash of white light.
When he came to his senses, Lexon was already back in the Main God Space, which he had not seen for a long time.
Rara and Youmei also appeared along with him.
Although the three of them had returned at different times, they all arrived in the Main God Space at the same instant.
That was why in missions with a time limit, it didn't matter if one waited until the very last second.
There was actually still over a year left before the deadline of the Demon Slayer world mission. Lexon could have completely relied on this year to continue signing in for everything he possibly could.
But he didn't want to.
The reason was as simple as that.
He acted according to the principles of interest and his own will. His previous power-ups through sign-ins were entirely because he happened to need strength, which was why he would specially make contact with others to sign in.
After reaching a certain limit, his enthusiasm had waned.
After all, if he encountered a higher-level world next time and signed in, it might be equivalent to the more than a year of sign-ins he would have gotten from staying in the Demon Slayer world...
And the Demon Slayer world had become his own base. If he wanted to go back, he could return at any time to sign in on the people and things he hadn't yet.
There was no hurry.
[Settlement]
The cold, mechanical voice of the Main God rang out.
A series of messages appeared.
[Main quest completed. 1000 Samsara Points obtained.]
[Side quest "Demon Hunt" completed with 100% contribution.]
[Killed a total of 207 demons, including six Upper Rank demons, one Lower Rank demon, and slayed the progenitor of demons, Muzan Kibutsuji.]
[Total rewards obtained: 104,000 Samsara Points, 1 S-rank plot reward, 10 A-rank plot rewards, 1 B-rank plot reward, and 1 C-rank plot reward.]
'That's quite a lot.'
Lexon thought, seeing these rewards.
After all, when a newcomer first arrived, they only had a mere five hundred Samsara Points.
[Reincarnator has brought one Nichirin Sword out of the Demon Slayer world. Pay the 4000 Samsara Point transport fee?]
'Yes.'
[Hidden world quest "A World Without Demons" completed. Obtained "Control over a base in the Demon Slayer world".]
[Please select whether the time in the Demon Slayer world flows with reality or is frozen?]
'Flow with reality.'
[Bring out any story characters from the Demon Slayer world?]
'No.'
[The next story world will open in thirty days. This story world quest will be a faction-versus-faction quest. Please treat it seriously.]
Seeing this message, Lexon pondered slightly.
'Faction versus faction...'
He had had this premonition since the name "Zhongzhou Team Four" appeared. Otherwise, the Main God wouldn't have made such clear divisions.
'Whatever. If it's a confrontation, so be it...'
'Oh, right, how do I check what the next mission world is again?'
He tried to ask the Main God but received no response.
'Ah, right, it seems to be a privilege exclusive to the captain...'
'Then now that the captain is dead, what should I do?'
'I'll ask the veterans.'
Lexon turned his gaze to the two veterans.
Then he discovered that Youmei seemed to have regained her senses under the Main God's treatment. All the scars and strange features on her body had returned to normal.
By the way, the terrifying heads that had been hanging from her waist had long since been thrown away by Rara.
The clarity gradually returned to Youmei's eyes. She looked at the teary-eyed Rara before her, her expression a little dazed.
"Miaoyi!" Seeing Youmei recover, Rara rushed forward and hugged her.
The young girl's face was covered in tears, both sad and happy.
"Yaya..." Youmei also hugged her back.
"The captain is dead! Liuzhi and Brother Li are also dead... sob, sob, sob..." Rara couldn't hold back her emotions and cried her heart out in Youmei's arms.
She had thought it would be a simple story world mission to guide the newcomers, but she had never expected that three of the five veterans would lose their lives.
This was a little hard for her to accept, especially the painful sight of her and the others being completely powerless in front of that monster.
It was only because the captain, Liuzhi, and Brother Li had risked their lives that she had been given the chance to escape using a one-time-use item, "Phase Teleport."
Rara's heart was in extreme pain. Only under the Main God's treatment had her trauma from Muzan somewhat subsided.
Youmei patted Rara's head sympathetically, a sad expression also on her face.
She was different from Rara. She had not encountered Muzan, but Hantengu. After being defeated by Hantengu, she was brought before Muzan and turned into a demon because he found her interesting.
After comforting each other for a while, they noticed Lexon's gaze and stopped.
Rara stood behind Youmei. Both of them looked at Lexon with complex expressions.
"Thank you," Youmei said first.
After waking up, her memories of being a demon were very clearly imprinted in her mind.
She also knew that this newcomer, whom she had teased at the beginning, was her savior. She knew even more about his terrifying combat power.
That old man demon, against whom she had no ability to resist, was killed in an instant by him. And demons far stronger than that old man demon were also slain by him.
The strength of this newcomer was simply terrifying to the extreme.
"You should be thanking the guy who turned you into a demon for not killing you," Lexon's reaction to Youmei's thanks was very flat.
He was more curious as to why Muzan hadn't just killed her.
"My exchange tendency is towards Necromancer. Perhaps that's the reason," Youmei directly revealed her ability without any concealment.
"Oh," Lexon replied. It was indeed true that Muzan would be curious about such an ability.
"This could be considered a blessing in disguise for me," Youmei said with a self-deprecating laugh.
Her current race was "Demon." After being optimized by the Main God through the use of Samsara Points, some of the drawbacks of being a demon, such as eating people, losing her sanity, and fearing sunlight, had been eliminated.
So, in this story world, she had essentially strengthened herself without doing anything.
Even the Lower Ranks she had killed after becoming a demon were credited to her, and she had received a considerable amount of Samsara Points and several B-rank plot rewards for free.
"Then congratulations," Lexon said perfunctorily, then asked, "I want to know what the next story world is. What should I do?"
"With the captain's authority, you can find out in fifteen days," Youmei said.
"But the captain is already dead," Lexon looked at her indifferently.
"After the captain dies, a new captain can be recommended from within the team," Youmei explained. Then, she said with some hesitation, "If you want to be the captain, Yaya and I will have no objections."
In Youmei's view, although Lexon was a newcomer, his strength was undeniably great. He was more than qualified to be the captain of Zhongzhou Team Four.
And under the leadership of a powerful captain, future missions would surely be much less dangerous.
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