599 Coincidence (1/2)

”…You're saying a mortal plane resident was dragged into a dimensional portal!? You met such a person in the 6th level of the Chaos Abyss?”

I recalled that the 6th level of the Chaos Abyss was also a level of ice, just like the 7th level. The 6th level was also physically connected to the Wildsnow Forest Mountain district of the 7th level. I would be far too dumb if I couldn't guess what had happened.

I was filled with immense delight, along with being slightly apologetic towards that unlucky individual. After all, there would be a 99% chance for an ordinary person who was teleported to the Chaos Abyss to die almost instantly. However, this person's arrival provided some incredibly important information—the place where this Dimensional Door led to in the mortal plane!

”Where is that person? Is he together with you all?”

I looked around at all the adventurers. The tiefling warrior had obvious inferno demonization traits. The human obviously wouldn't be the elf mage or dwarf priest. I couldn't see any humans with them, so could it be that the human was somewhere else?

”He was already dead before we even saw him. I should say that we only met his corpse.”

The dwarf priest retreated to my side. This dwarf had a face covered in a large beard and a deep voice. It was impossible for me to tell if this dwarf was male or female… Many female dwarves these days were choosing to shave their beards completely due to the beauty standards of other species. However, it would still be quite common for dwarven adventurers not to shave often during an adventure, especially while running for their lives.

”Dead? Are you joking with me? Oh, I see…”

I was astonished at first. Why would so many people be hunting Casio's team down if that human was dead already, with no more information to give? But then I thought about it some more. It would be incredibly unusual for an ordinary person not to die when suddenly teleported to an icy level in the Chaos Abyss.

And in this magical world, information could still be obtained even from the dead.

”His belongings?”

”We have them.”

That was all I needed to hear. Either Casio's adventuring team had been truly unlucky to meet with this, or they had to have received a mission from an Order or Hell God to search for that corpse and take his belongings.

The corpse probably had no obvious identification on him. Otherwise, the dwarf priest would have informed our Gods already, and this incident would be over. There would be no need to take the corpse's belongings then.

But, in this magical world, as long as there were clues and you were willing to pay a price, even the dead could talk.

An undead archmage's soul-summoning spell, a space and time mage's Memory Recovery spell, an arch druid's Soul Scent spell, a God's prophecy-type Divine Art, and so on could all obtain information from a dead body or its belongings.

As long as the price was paid, it would be quite easy to find out where this unlucky person had come from, especially since Gods would be willing to help out. It would even be possible to revive this dead person and have himself tell us where he was from.

The adventuring team had obviously met with several battles already. It was obvious that they were fatigued and injured. It was likely that they had fought their entire way here. But, judging from their angry yet spirited attitude, and how they were fatigued but still had high morale, it seemed that they had yet to suffer a major loss. It also seemed that they hadn't lost any of their members yet.

But, right when they entered the Ashen Furnace, even the Chaos War God Donatis personally came over. It would seem that the powerful existences in the Chaos Abyss had already noticed that information might leak about the Dimensional Door's location in the mortal plane, so they came over to personally crush the adventuring team that would be nothing more than tiny insects to them.

”I never expected that the famous Roland would personally come to meet us. Our God truly takes such good care of us. However, are our Passion Knight allies still safe?”

Passion Knights? That was a relatively famous Holy Knight group from the Lanbing district. The moment that I heard this name, I recalled that group of overly tense Holy Knights…

”Paha, I voluntarily took work that I didn't have to again?”

At this moment, I finally realized everything. It wasn't that Beyana and the other Hell Gods had wanted me to work for free. They had already arranged for this Holy Knight group to be Casio's team's reinforcements. It was just that I had too many years of experience of being pushed into pitfalls, so I thought too much into things, and voluntarily took this work…

Donatis personally arriving here was also something we couldn't do anything about, since the information that we might find out the location of the Dimensional Door in the mortal plane had leaked already. Donatis even personally came here just to prevent anything unexpected from happening. He wasn't even targeting me to begin with. Perhaps he would be quite astonished to see me here.

”Roland…”

”…Harloys, don't say anything. I know exactly what you want to say. Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get… So let's just let the past be the past. I just have to get used to my dark history…”

”I just wanted to tell you to hurry up and come help us! He's too powerful, we can't handle him anymore!”

Fine then, this was not quite the time for joking around. I would have to hurry and deal with the trouble before me.

As I looked at Salor, who was still filled with energy, and the Chaos War God who had already enlarged himself visibly in the distance, I was actually quite relieved.

It was lucky that Casio's team had met us. Otherwise, if their Holy Knight group reinforcements met with Donatis and Salor, it was likely that even all of them combined wouldn't be enough to stop these enemies. The information would have been cut off before it could leak.

”This guy is incredibly durable…”

Even though Salor was trapped with no escape, and completely unable to even counterattack, he didn't show a single sign of fatigue. In fact, he seemed like he became more energized as the fight went on. Even though he was focusing fully on defense, his concentration didn't lapse one bit. If this went on, it was likely that the ”youngster” adventurers would be defeated first.