093, Goodbye, Tony Stark

The team mission had begun. ITEM detected: Past Stone...

Selected... DC-like world, influence mirror 26547. Fusion and overwrite in progress. World main quest updated.

World Manager, World Conqueror, and World Explorer Authority Holders detected. Activate authorities?

"Huh?" In the vast void, Rimuru, quietly waiting for teleportation, seemed to feel time pause for an instant. Since the Past Stone was in Ruksinth's hands, the task of opening the world had naturally fallen to her. Rimuru had originally thought there would be no chance for him to do anything this time.

But... world authorities could affect team missions too?

The World Explorer authority could forcibly change the current world to a random or fixed unconquered world.

The World Conqueror authority could forcibly enable attack permissions for the current world and change the mission into a conquest mission.

After modification, the authority holder and their team would receive more generous rewards, but all consequences would be borne by the Authority Holder.

Activate?

"..."

Rimuru blinked, suddenly at a loss for words. Why did he feel like the Extraordinary Space thought their mission was too easy and was deliberately setting him up?!

"Don't activate it."

He had never intended to fight for his life on this operation. Was this some kind of joke?

Still, the reminder from those two authorities made Rimuru realize something. The authority he had inherited... was likely an external authority, something like leading an army of the void to endlessly devour other worlds?

That was not bad, actually. It was basically military command in his hands, wasn't it?

World confirmed—DC-like world, year 2012 (timeline corrected), New York.

World number—15435225

World type: Team cooperation mission

World difficulty: Sequence 9—Sequence 2

Main team mission objective, human faction: Assist the New York military in defeating the invaders, ensure Iron Man does not die,