Death: The Cause

The person who first came up with the Task Hall must have had a great sense of humor. The place had been set up inside a medieval-style tavern, complete with all kinds of drinks, waiters, and a tavern keeper. The second floor had a holographic mission board. After registering upstairs, Ian could now access the hall's missions through his Reincarnation Watch.

As he scrolled through the mission list, he couldn't help frowning. He discovered that low-tier Reincarnators simply couldn't offer any worthwhile missions. At their level, it was much quicker and cheaper to ask the Samsara Hall directly for answers or knowledge. And the rewards they could offer were too meager. After all, they were both weak and poor.

Meanwhile, the higher-tier Reincarnators didn't trust the Main God, so the rewards offered in their missions were quite generous. Unfortunately, Ian couldn't accept those missions—not because he lacked the ability. In fact, he could answer most questions in the fields of magic and technology. However, those questions exceeded what someone of his current identity should have been capable of.

He searched carefully through countless missions and finally found two that met his requirements. The first involved someone asking for a code to be deciphered, with a reward sufficient to make up for the cost of purchasing the Seamless Stretching Bag. Ian had accumulated extensive codebreaking experience in the Fullmetal Alchemist world.

The alchemists of that universe simply loved using ridiculous and complicated codes to conceal their research. So he wrote an algorithm and had Morgana decode it. According to her estimate, it would take two days, but there was more than enough time before the next mission began.

The second mission Ian chose involved a mathematical formula—or, more precisely, a language-based formula. He spent three hours cracking it and discovered that