After listening to Shin's detailed request, Bulma agreed to help. She would use her resources to gather intelligence, but she couldn't guarantee success—the information Shin had provided was too sparse to pinpoint any specific individuals.
Shin was pleased to hear Bulma's assessment and her promise to help. He knew she had agreed to leverage her own intelligence channels to assist him. Her family was incredibly powerful and undoubtedly had its own intelligence network. By using their system, they could largely avoid infiltration by the Reincarnators.
After all, Shin was flying blind—he knew nothing about the Reincarnators' power, abilities, or methods. The enemy was in the shadows, while he wasn't sure if he was in the light or the dark himself.
Just then, a thought struck Shin. The System had given him information about the Reincarnators, but had the Main God provided the Reincarnators with information about him?
If so, he wondered what it said. Even Shin himself had trouble accurately estimating his own power.
While Shin was wracking his brain trying to find these Reincarnators, they were, in fact, looking for him.
Not long ago, their Main God had issued a temporary side quest. There was no penalty for failure, but the objective was to deal with someone named "Shin." This person was not native to the Dragon Ball world. According to the Main God's mission briefing, he could be called a "spatial wanderer."
These wanderers were extremely rare. They were individuals who, for various reasons, had stumbled upon something that allowed them to transcend spacetime—a powerful artifact, a fragment of a universal law, and so on. This allowed them to travel between worlds.
They were what people commonly called transmigrators. Some could travel multiple times, others only once. The System hadn't told them this much; it was knowledge their team had pieced together from books.
The Main God's space had a free library filled mostly with general knowledge, travelogues, and even language books—a small perk from the Main God.
If you didn't want to waste your points, you could learn the language of a new world yourself, though it would take a considerable amount of time. It was often cheaper and more convenient to just spend the points.
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Sakamoto Kenji looked at the other four members of his team. "The reward for this side quest is insane," he said. "Way too generous."
"1,500 points each, plus a C-rank side quest for everyone. You couldn't earn that even if you put your life on the line."
"That's like one and a half missions in a normal world. I've never seen a quest with a reward this high."
"This so-called 'wanderer' might have something to do with the Main God's space."
"You think he could be a Reincarnator from another Main God's space?" Domon Kyouji asked.
As the team's main combatant, his analytical skills were also sharp, but most of the time, the team relied on his fighting prowess. With the team's high collective intelligence and advanced equipment, they didn't need to overthink the analysis process.
Kisaragi Rei nodded, agreeing with Domon. "It's very possible. Maybe the two spaces are in competition. That would explain why the reward is so high."
"We're just the dogs, after all. When we bite one of our master's enemy's dogs to death, we get an extra bone to chew on."
It was clear Kisaragi was not a fan of the Main God's space. She was deeply resentful of their situation, of having to work and earn points like this.
Ishigami Mamoru looked at the arguing group. "Even if he's a Reincarnator from another space, we're all in the same boat, aren't we?"
"This world is full of ridiculously powerful beings. You all remember what it was like when we faced Cell, right?"
"His aura alone was enough to repel our energy. This Reincarnator seems to be a lone wolf."
"But in a world like this, a lone wolf would have a hard time surviving."
"Who knows, maybe one day a massive battle breaks out, and our lone wolf just gets taken out. Game over, no second chances."
He glanced at their support, Yoshida Haru, with a hint of pride. Most large teams of over a dozen people only had a part-time support member. Their small squad having a dedicated support of their level was incredibly fortunate.
But it also reflected the team's immense strength. Otherwise, no support character would join a low-level team. A team's strength was a direct indicator of its future prospects.
In the Multiverse of Reincarnators, if a team couldn't protect its own members, it was destined to fall apart. In the Main God's space, this dog-eat-dog world where people profited from others' misery was all too common—so common you couldn't even find an example to argue against it.
If you didn't play the game, you had a 99.99% chance of failure, destined to be swept into the dustbin of history.
Yoshida Haru remained silent. He had always been a quiet, hardworking, and resilient person. Unless the others unanimously asked for his opinion, he would only offer a few words before falling silent again.
The group fully exchanged their opinions.
This was the Dragon Ball world, and most of them were familiar with the various villains. But this sudden side quest, and this unexpected, suspected Reincarnator, was a lot to take in at once.
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