079: Before One Wave Had Settled

After finishing his conversation with The Unifier, Rimuru reined in the shock on his face and fell into deep thought.

He walked out of the area, his brows slightly furrowed.

"Very interesting... but..."

Suspicious.

Great Sage summed it up succinctly.

"Indeed..."

If The Unifier had said those things to a native-born Rimuru, he might have believed them. But... Rimuru was a transmigrator.

That made the number of suspicious points far greater.

Rimuru's next destination was Marvel, yet information about that world was not circulated in the Extraordinary Space—or rather, it circulated only to an extremely limited extent. Moreover, Marvel did not exist in the current Real world; there was only DC. Of course, none of that proved anything. But the strangest part was... after hearing The Unifier's words, Rimuru had immediately asked Great Sage to search the Extraordinary Space database for all information related to the Old Gods.

Yet it had found absolutely nothing.

Furthermore, races such as the Faceless Ones did indeed exist in the void. However, these primordial chaos beings, said to have naturally emerged from the void, might or might not have had any connection to the Old Gods Rimuru remembered.

"The last Authority Holder of the Extraordinary Space had Yog-Sothoth's Sequence, yet the Extraordinary Space was renamed R'lyeh... Isn't R'lyeh supposed to be Cthulhu's sleeping place?"

"Yog-Sothoth is omniscient, while Azathoth is blind and idiotic. Could it be that knowing too much makes one seek to play dumb instead? Hmm... let's set that aside for now. After all, Azathoth is indeed the supreme god in the legends, and things like the wisest appearing foolish could explain it... but it still feels awkward."

"According to the Real world, among the original seven Authority Holders, at least one can be confirmed as Sylphiel's former master, Satan, while another