"What's going on?"

Seeing Maine excitedly bringing Mai Lu to her room, Fang Zheng couldn't help but be stunned.

"Mr. Fang Zheng, I found another companion!"

As she spoke, Maine pushed Mai Lu in front of Fang Zheng.

"companion?"

After hearing what Mei Yin said, Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly realized.

"You traveled through time as well?"

"Oh, yes, that...excuse me..."

Facing Fang Zheng, Mai Lu was obviously not as lively as when facing Mei Yin. She blushed slightly and lowered her head, bowing respectfully to Fang Zheng. Although Mai Lu was also surprised that her employer was also a time traveler, but... in this strange world, being able to see her companions still made her feel at ease.

"So what's your situation?"

"Well, I am..."

Compared to Maine, Mailu's time-travel story seems very orthodox. She was originally a high school girl named Kurihara Kairi in modern Japan. One day, she was hit and killed by a truck while trying to save a child crossing the road. Then she traveled to another world and met a god, who promised to fulfill one of her wishes.

Mai Lu's wish is "I hope to make normal friends and live a normal life in my next life, so my ability only needs to be the average of that world!"

Just like that, she traveled to this world, encountered various things, and now she is acting as an adventurer as Milu...

"Live an ordinary life? But I see you are not ordinary at all."

Fang Zheng still remembered Mai Lu's nonchalant look when facing his Dragon Power. Although Fang Zheng did not display the full version of Dragon Power at that time, being able to withstand his Dragon Power could not be considered ordinary.

"I don't want to either, but I don't know why. That god gave me half the power of the strongest living creature in the world, the ancient dragon..."

“Huh?”

After hearing Mai Lu's answer, Fang Zheng and Mei Yin were stunned.

“This isn’t the average, this is the median, right!?”

"Shouldn't we remove the highest and lowest values ​​and then find the average?"

"That's what I thought too!"

Mylu was about to cry.

"Who knew it would turn out like this..."

"I can only say that the so-called god has a low IQ."

Fang Zheng shrugged helplessly, but fortunately, strictly speaking, Mai Lu's ability value was not too outrageous. According to her, the god gave "half of the strongest living creature in this world". Gods and demons were definitely not considered "living creatures". In addition, according to the fact that they were alive, the Red Dragon God and the Water Dragon King were both dead, so giving them half the ability value of an ancient dragon... was actually not too much.

As for the Golden Nightmare King, there is no need to even think about him. He doesn't belong to "this world" at all.

"But then again, who reincarnated you? Is your IQ so low?"

"Um... She said she was the water goddess Aqua..."

At this point, Mai Lu also sighed. After all, she is the goddess of water, and from the outside, she is a super beautiful girl. In anime, isn't water usually associated with wisdom? Therefore, Mai Lu didn't think much about it at the time... Who knew it would turn out like this!

Could it be that the goddess she met was a fake one?

"But it doesn't matter, haha... But I want to remind you, if you want to live an ordinary life in this world, then forget it."

"Why?"

Hearing this, Maine and Mailu were both stunned.

"Why?"

"Let me ask you a question first."

Hearing the two people's questions, Fang Zheng did not answer immediately, but stared at them and asked back.

"The ordinary life you expect is to live peacefully like in your original world, go shopping with friends, and then grow up like this?"

“Mmmmm!!!”

Facing Fang Zheng's question, Mei Yin and Mai Lu both nodded, and Fang Zheng couldn't help laughing when he saw their reactions.

"It seems that you really don't understand what the fantasy world means."

"……?"

Hearing this, the two looked at each other in confusion, and then Main spoke first.

"Well... I know that life in this world is hard, and there is a huge gap in status..."

Maine had a "personal experience" of this. Although she had read about it in books before, she had never thought that the nobles would have such great power that they could easily decide the life and death of a group of civilians without having to consider their opinions. There was no need for a trial, or even evidence. As long as they were unhappy, they could directly imprison or even execute civilians... Maine had never thought of this before.

I never thought it would happen to me.

"It's not just that simple."

Looking at the two naive girls in front of him, Fang Zheng decided to teach them a lesson. One of them was a college student, and the other was a high school student. They had never experienced the harshness of society, so they had such naive ideas. In fact, when they enter society and work, their ideas will probably change. Modern society is peaceful, but fierce competition is also everywhere. When you are a student, you can still rely on your parents. But when you enter society, you need to work hard on your own.

"You have to know that in this world, there are gods and demons. Let's not talk about what the gods look like for now. As for the demons... do you know the demons' goals?"

“…”

The two looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Guess?"

"World rule?"

Mai Lu gave a common reason in many anime works. After all, generally speaking, isn't this the ultimate goal of the demons and villains?

"wrong."

Fang Zheng waved his hand.

"It is to destroy the world."

"……Why?"

"According to the legend of this world, all things come from the Mother of Chaos, and the Mother of Chaos - the Golden Nightmare King is the mother of all things and the symbol most worshipped by the demons. Therefore, the goal of the demons is to destroy this world, let everything return to the Mother of Chaos, and become one with the Mother of Chaos again. So... do you understand?"

Having said this, Fang Zheng spread out his hands.

"This world is not peaceful at all, and it could be destroyed at any time. In fact, you may not know that the world almost destroyed itself a few days ago. At that time, a fragment of the sealed Demon King Shabranigud awakened and was defeated by a magician... Of course, this is a special case. In fact, if the magician had not defeated the Demon King's clone, it would have controlled the army of monsters and completely destroyed everything."

"Is there such a thing?!"

Hearing this, Maine and Mailu's faces turned pale instantly.

"Yes, that's it."

Fang Zheng shrugged.

"So you must remember that this world is not your original world. The threat posed by the demons to this world is real. This is why every country and power hopes to obtain someone with strong power. Maine, you should also understand this."

"Uh... yes."

Hearing this, Maine was somewhat depressed. The main reason why she was chosen by the temple was because of her powerful magic. In fact, Maine had not yet come into contact with magic at that time, so she was a little confused about these things. After all, she lived in the city and was not aware of the dangers outside.

But Maine didn't expect that there was such a background, which surprised her a little.

"So, does that mean we can't live a normal life?"

After hearing what Fang Zheng said, Mai Lu still couldn't give up.

"Of course you can, but the question is, are you willing to do that? Do you know what kind of life ordinary people in this world lead? Can you really accept their lives? Take you for example, Mailu, you are a noble, so your family will definitely use you as a marriage partner in the future. Of course, you are strong enough, but in the eyes of your family, this only raises the stakes of the marriage partner. For example, those who originally wanted to marry you to a noble may now want to marry you to a lord or a king. There is no free love in this world, so don't expect anyone to support you. If you want to say, 'I don't want to marry a lord or king, I just want to marry someone I like,' then others will only regard you as a lunatic... The conflict in a world is not just a difference in worldview, but also a difference in culture and customs. The lives of ordinary people in this world are completely different from your values."

"Hmmmm."

Compared to Mai Lu, Maine understood this more deeply and nodded desperately in agreement, while Mai Lu lowered her head in dejection. After all, she was a noble, and compared to Maine, who was born in a poor family, she still did not deeply understand this. Although Mai Lu also suffered a lot along the way, she always subconsciously thought that "this is just a product of the aristocracy", and did not expect that this is the difference and opposition of the values ​​of the whole world.

Having said that, Fang Zheng slightly raised the corner of his mouth and looked at Mai Lu.

"By the way, if you want to know what adventurers in this world are like, I can give you some advice."

"Huh? But I'm already an adventurer?"

"I mean ordinary adventurers. You are not an ordinary adventurer."

Fang Zheng shook his head.

"You have seen the three girls next to me, right? They... well, at least they are much more ordinary than you. Take your team and go on a mission with them. Then you will know what ordinary adventurers are like."

Having said this, Fang Zheng smiled slightly.

"Right, let's go kill the goblins."