It wasn’t completely out of their imagination, but it was unexpected. Was Liber a world that had already been saved once before?

“…It’s not really anything strange. History usually repeats itself,” Noel said in a low voice. Although she quickly schooled her expression again, she couldn’t hide the worry in her voice.

“It’s true. I suppose it would be even rarer for peace to last forever after a world was saved once,” Zelit agreed. Crises were like natural disasters; they periodically occurred on any planet. Yes, it certainly wasn’t strange that a hero growth system was already established in this world, yet Zelit had been unable to hide his worry for a moment because of Liber’s current situation—it was noticeably much more of a giant heap of a mess compared to any other worlds—as the fact that so many heroes had ended their days in this place showed.

Usually, heroes didn’t die. They entered Worlds with many special privileges under their belt and miraculous coincidences occurred everywhere they went. It would be no exaggeration to say that Worlds revolved around heroes. Yet on Liber, the ‘World’ which would make this possible had disappeared.

Zelit fell into deep contemplation. He imagined the worst possible scenario. What if the reason why Liber became like this was connected to the salvation it had gone through in some way? For instance, what if the enemy...