Looking at the unknown book that had appeared beneath the stone tablet, Bai Zhi fell silent for quite a while.
Leaving aside everything else, this trip to the Underworld had given him some extremely valuable intelligence.
The true nature and origins of the Underworld, as well as the various events from his own world's past—the amount of information contained within those three sets of pictures was terrifying.
There were far too many myths and legends passed down by countries all over the world, and yet these completely different mythologies possessed astonishing similarities in certain aspects.
How could so many different kinds of myths and legends possibly coexist within a single world?
Those sets of pictures had perfectly answered that question.
The fusion of multiple worlds had brought myths from other worlds. Although the world had ultimately fallen apart, the myths and legends brought by those other worlds had been passed down ever since... This was the change brought about by those World Guardians.
These World Guardians had not been as helpless against Invaders as those World Guardians in the dining hall. They had joined forces with one another and formed a united line of resistance. Though they had still failed in the end and the world had crumbled apart as a result, they had left behind an exceedingly rich legacy.
—The strength of their world stemmed from this.
And beyond that intelligence, the true nature of the Underworld was also a major discovery.
Before this, who could have imagined that the Underworld, which existed as a Land of Inheritance, was fundamentally not all that different from the Shadow World?
Countless questions had found perfect answers within those sets of pictures.
But even so, Bai Zhi had no intention of taking this burden upon himself. Although a Mythical Level inheritance was