The Balance Tavern.
Faced with the overly gamelike scene inside the tavern, the Painter Enzo realized something:
Only another god could defeat a god.
Perhaps they were merely pawns, while those bearing the names of constellations were the players.
He simply did not know whether the commander before him was a pawn of some constellation or a genuine powerhouse on humanity's side.
Enzo clearly had little to say to the others.
This time, they had earned an SSS rating and a hidden quest reward, and Wen Xishu was currently upgrading the tavern.
But everyone else's experience had been: we entered stage three, we woke up, we won.
Although Nicole had contributed, it really felt as though the commander had ventured deep into enemy territory alone, and they had somehow won.
So none of them felt the joy of a hard-fought victory after giving their all.
They were all rather bewildered. Facing the newcomer Enzo, they also knew... he was on an entirely different level. They were still grounded in reality, while Enzo was already powerful enough to fight the curse alone.
That made conversation difficult, too.
The tavern was quiet.
Everyone had something on their mind.
Borg, the Hacker, had asked about the previous stage and felt that the difficulty curve had changed far too drastically.
Without Nicole, stage three would have practically wiped them out. After all, the final boss had become their teammate, and his abilities made the outcome easy to imagine.
If Enzo had awakened, we couldn't have won even with Nicole...
Then in stage four... is there really any point in keeping people with ordinary abilities like us? Will I be discarded?
Exceeding the population quota weighed heavily on Borg's mind.
The others felt the same.
Enzo did not think he would die, since his abilities