"...... I've done it.

　When I woke up, I was lying in a completely white space with no walls or ceiling.

　There was no sun, no sky, not even the ground, but the only sensation I had was that I was lying in a large figure somewhere.

　I immediately understood the situation I was in.

　He had been attacked by Garnett, shielding him from the attack, and he had just died because he couldn't use his skills.

　Of course, I'm aware that I didn't really die.

　I was just ripped out of that world and my appearance was restored to its original form.

　But still, I couldn't help but feel a strong sense of regret.

"Garnett ...... Are you angry or crying? ...... I'll have to apologize properly later.

　Even though it was a reflex action in a world that is only a reproduction, that was nothing more than the result of 'I lost my life protecting Garnet'.

　He's not the kind of guy who can divide and conquer - because it's a reproduction that has no effect on reality anyway - and he's even a character who laments his lack of power more than anything else.

　However, you can't redo what you've done, and it's not a good thing to dwell on it and let other things go to waste.

　As I lay on my back in the blank space, I spoke to the other being that was supposed to be here.

'Alfazul. Did you gain anything?
...... Yeah. Not what I would describe as a harvest, though.

　From the side of his vision, Alfazul, still in his young form, approached without a sound of footsteps.

''It has to be. This is a spectacle that Helu wanted to show us by betting on a long and painstaking preparation to the point of death and getting us all into a huge mess. I honestly didn't know what to expect when it all came to nothing.

　He slowly raises his upper body and sits down in the white space without Alpha Zulu in sight.

'Not at all ...... and then where in the world did you get your memories plugged into Hel?　I had an obvious trigger when I was Senator Eil: ......
Probably from the beginning.
From the beginning?

　He returned only a dubious voice without looking at her.

''In the time before I lost my life in the battle against the divine beasts, I left preparations for resurrection all over the continent. And of course, the mechanisms to aid in that.
...... d*mn, I'm starting to read something.

　He clicked his tongue and slapped his knee.

"You knew that one of the resurrection methods you left behind, the substitute that was said to be the prototype for the skill, would not work well by itself at first. That's why you had a mechanism in the 'Thousand Year Corridor of the Abyss' to assist you with that.
It's not just that labyrinth. Preparations are scattered in multiple places.
'I suppose. Maybe the dungeon from which Mithril was taken is ...... no way to be that sure?

　If we are to believe what Gandalf once told us, Alphasul had left a 'magical imprint passed down by blood' as a means of resurrection, so that it could be resurrected if someone who met the right conditions appeared.

　I've heard that this attempt itself was ineffective for a long time, but rather served as a prototype for the ancients to create an alternative means of magic - a skill.

Perhaps there are countless people on the ground who just so happen to have inherited the original skill's prototype book," he said. The coincidence of such a guy spending a lot of time in the Thousand Year Corridor of the Abyss coincided with ...... and that's me.

　A combination of low-probability coincidences prepared the soil for the resurrection of Alpha Zulu, and those who met the conditions to become a vessel evolved their skills under some influence from Alpha Zulu.

　Or maybe this enhancement was also a process of the physical body changing to match the Alpha-Zulu.

　Just as I cut off my words once, Alpha-Zulu nonchalantly continued.

'...... Hel was attacking the 'Elemental Ark' as a divine beast. In that battle, he must have realized that the First Labyrinth was not only a defense mechanism against the earth, but also a mechanism to interfere with those who would eventually return to the earth.
If there is someone who meets the requirements of the vessels among the returning group, Master Alfazul will resurrect that person as a vessel and lead the reconstruction of the earth. This is a good plan.
'Hel thought to reverse it and send me Loki's memories. I suppose he tweaked the mechanism on the labyrinth side. Or maybe he saw another role in the middle of his attempt to neutralize the defense mechanism.
d*mn it, ......, these people are just too stubborn to be true.

　I couldn't help but speak my mind.

　Both Alphasul, who attempted to resurrect himself with a long-term plan that would not be less than a few hundred or thousands of years, and Helu, who cracked the record in anticipation of that, are thinking about things in a longer time span than human values could ever imagine.

　--Alphazul left a means by which the human body could be turned into a vessel for his own resurrection, and left a mechanism in the labyrinth at the dungeon's main entrance that could be adjusted from the outside for inadequacies.

　Hel took notice of this and laced it with Loki's memories, but nothing was ever going to work, and the intentions of both sides didn't come to fruition until much later.

　Until the time when humans flourished on earth again, until the time when I, who happened to meet the conditions, continued to wander in the relevant dungeons--

　The plans are so out of the ordinary that I'm getting a headache just imagining them.

I'm sure he'll be happy to tell Hild later. I'm not sure if this is the only information that would be useful to him, but this is the kind of information that would be useful to him.

　He stood up with a jab at his knee and dared to turn around with his back to Alfazul.

'I'm done, aren't I?　I'm going to get the hell out of here. I've got people waiting for me, no doubt.
'Wait for ......, Luke. I have to tell you something.

　I didn't say anything, but threw silence at him instead of a reply.

　If you have something to say, do what you want - it's a silence with that meaning.

If Loki's motive for unleashing the divine beast ...... is what Hel told me it was, then I am obligated to be sure. I'm sure that's what Eovaldi really meant. And why it still threatens the earth .......
'You're not an elf, Eavaldi could have been dead long ago. That's true, well, ...... I wouldn't be surprised if he had a puppet in his body, like the other survivors of the ancients.
'But whoever leads Agart Ram will know that.
'Because ...... my body won't do it. It's not you going to the third level. It's me here.

　As I was about to turn around for advice, a leather eye patch was thrown over to me.

　It was identical to the one that covered Alfazul's right eye, with exquisite embroidery on the inside with mithril thread, not gold thread.

'I will lend you strength, Luke White Wolf. I will assist you with all the controls so that you can continue to be you and draw as much power as possible. So get there instead of me.
"...... alfazul, you ......
I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make your life easier by using the ...... If you want to remove the fetters on your right eye, use your eye patch. It's a special piece of equipment that sealed up my right eye when it was at its best. I'm sure you'll be able to find out what happens to your right eye as long as you wear it.

　I lightly gripped the eye patch that was thrown to me, a smirk twisting my mouth into a smile.

'What, you won't let me use your powers?'
'I don't mind lending you one, but you'll be painted over in an instant now. You can always tell me if you want to borrow it.

　Alfazul responds with a fearless smile that is balanced by his youthful appearance.

　The sensations in my body fade and I'm drawn back to reality.

　I continued to look straight at Alfazl until the moment the last of my five senses melted into the light.