Rimuru and the others had spent two weeks traveling through space without finding even the slightest trace of Thanos.
Yes, it was not that they had failed to find Thanos. After questioning every extraordinary being they encountered and constantly gathering information, they found that aside from the occasional native who knew of Thanos's reputation, the extraordinary beings did not even know who Thanos was.
That made Rimuru breathe a sigh of relief. He suddenly realized that the easy circulation of information in the extraordinary world had nearly made him forget... the real world he came from had no Marvel film franchise. It only had DC.
Under such circumstances, while many people could spread most of Marvel's plotlines as information after experiencing them, Thanos's arrival was ultimately still too far in the future.
Moreover, Thanos's sphere of activity truly was quite far from Earth. Even reaching the Nine Realms would take nearly a year of travel alone—though that might also have had something to do with Thanos's obsessive compulsion to wipe out half of every civilization he saw...
In that case, Rimuru seemed to have no need to worry about someone getting there first. Waiting patiently was not necessarily a bad thing.
During this time, Tony came to see him and suddenly, seriously requested to learn magic.
What happened in Wakanda had dealt him a blow. In his eyes, what Rimuru's subordinates had done was still somewhat excessive. However, he did not go to Rimuru to complain. He merely wanted to quietly learn more about magic. Wakanda had made him understand that no matter how advanced technology became, it was still difficult to deal with the unknown.
It was not just science. Magic was the same in that regard. The unknown represented a high level of mystery, and high mystery could