"Suicide?"
Hearing Ryuga's words, Jibril showed an interested expression and looked over curiously.
Azriel, on the other hand, looked completely astonished, not knowing why Ryuga would say such a thing.
"Didn't I mention before? The claim that Dragonia possess hundreds of millions of times the spirit power of Flügel is a lie. Since that's the case, how are they able to completely ignore ordinary Flügel's Heaven's Strike and possess defense power beyond reason?"
Ryuga posed the question.
"I don't know."
Azriel simply shook her head.
"Mm... Master's meaning is that Dragonia used some special deception to achieve this?"
Jibril tilted her head and speculated thus.
"Correct."
Ryuga nodded and approached the Dragonia's remains.
"Just as Werebeast have more acute senses, Elves can see the flow of spirit power, and Flügel can see spatial folding, Dragonia possess an equally special life form—they can exist across subsidiary time."
In the No Game No Life world, the differences between races were like chasms. Just from their basic life forms, there were enormous differences.
Humans who couldn't observe or use spirit power being relegated to their current low status was only natural.
"Across subsidiary time?"
Azriel showed a puzzled expression, completely unable to understand.
However, after being slightly stunned, Jibril's eyes lit up as she realized something.
"Ryuga-sama, you mean Dragonia don't just exist at this point in time, but simultaneously cover past and future?"
"Correct."
For ordinary life, only the present has meaning, because past and future cannot be controlled.
But for Dragonia, this wasn't the case.
If ordinary life existed as points in the river of time, only able to experience the current moment, then Dragonia existed as planes in the river of time, simultaneously covering past, present, and future.
Although this plane had its length limits—Dragonia hadn't achieved the [Present, Past, and Eternal] accomplishment—even covering just a few minutes of past and future was enough to cause earth-shaking changes within.
"I see! Simultaneously covering past and future, so they can reflect energy from past and future time points into their bodies, achieving infinite amplification and amplifying the spirit power within their bodies to the limit—this is the source of massive spirit power!"
After receiving Ryuga's hint, Jibril became completely excited.
She had already challenged this Dragonia multiple times before and had accumulated many doubts. Hearing Ryuga's words now, these doubts were instantly resolved.
"When normally hunting Dragonia, if it's just minor injuries, they can recover immediately. Thinking about it now, they probably didn't use healing methods, but overwrote their past uninjured state onto the present, directly ensuring their condition remained at peak through time convergence!"
"Looking at it this way, their bodies are just containers used during time convergence. If this container itself develops irreparable cracks, then these injuries would be infinitely reflected and amplified like the infinitely reflected energy, eventually causing them to self-destruct... This is their innate weakness, so Ryuga-sama said they committed suicide!"
After comprehending everything, Jibril looked at Ryuga with extremely admiring eyes.
"As expected of Master—you saw through the key point I completely missed at a glance!"
Hearing this, Ryuga shook his head.
"If you didn't use Protection and challenged two more times, you would have noticed the problem too."
The reason Jibril didn't see the truth was mainly because Steel's Protection was too strong.
No need to find weak points or anything—just one sword for an instant kill.
Although this was also taking advantage of the Dragonia's weakness, it looked like violent crushing, which instead hindered Jibril's intelligence analysis.
Looking at it this way, while Dragonia individuals matched lower-tier Old Deus, once they encountered deities skilled in penetrating damage who could easily break defenses, their win rate wasn't high.
"Master has such strong confidence in me!"
Jibril happily accepted Ryuga's praise.
Then she looked curiously at Ryuga's actions.
"What are you doing? Do Dragonia also have primordial divine cores?"
At this moment, Ryuga's hand was placed on the Dragonia's remains. The Dragonia's body had originally been dispersing into light particles, but after Ryuga intervened, all these particles condensed in his hand, becoming some kind of blue geometric structure.
This familiar scene reminded Jibril of when Ryuga had obtained Michael's primordial divine core in the divine realm.
"Of course not."
Ryuga shook his head.
Dragonia in this world were purely powerful creatures, constructed differently from dragon-snakes in the Campione world, naturally having no divine cores.
"However, Dragonia themselves possess spiritual cores similar to divine cores. The core structure is still star particles, the same as you Flügel."
Or rather, Flügel, Servants, and deities all had very similar core constructions—all belonged to ether constructs.
The differences between the three all stemmed from differences in their cores. Divine cores were just special spiritual cores.
In this regard, Dragonia were the same.
"So Master's meaning is that you can directly obtain Dragonia's power template now?"
Jibril blinked and asked in surprise.
"Mm."
Ryuga nodded.
As long as they were life forms with similar structures, he could master their construction through star particles and absorb their power into his own body.
Now, he had completely mastered Dragonia Language, Roar, and Dragonia's most crucial ability—time convergence.
"From the current structure, if Dragonia didn't covet infinitely reflected amplified energy, their immortality would be stronger. Unless it's sustained attacks, it would be difficult to affect time convergence power."
"Makes sense! But in that case, Dragonia wouldn't have their current status."
Jibril pointed this out.
If they didn't possess the impression of near-invincibility, Dragonia wouldn't have been so safe all these years.
In a certain sense, their deception was quite effective.
Disguising strength was also a means of avoiding disaster.
"Indeed so."
Ryuga nodded.
Before long, he had completely absorbed the Dragonia's power template.
"So where do we go next?"
Jibril immediately asked.
"With Master's power, I recommend hunting some Giants or Phantasma!"
Without needing to ask, it was obvious Jibril just wanted to help Ryuga collect power templates from all sixteen species.
Her guidance was leading down a bloody path.
Of course, the blood would all be others'.
"No."
Ryuga shook his head.
Regarding Jibril's suggestion, he wasn't unmoved, but before that, there were several other existences in this world worthy of his attention.
"Let's go to the Elves first!"
If he remembered correctly, the Elves at this time should possess a divine realm-level genius.
Although this genius's strength couldn't yet compare to the most ordinary Flügel, she could indeed develop techniques that even Flügel couldn't break through and could even threaten Old Deus-level beings.
In the field of technique research, this genius had undoubtedly reached the divine realm level.
Although for Ryuga, this genius's vision was still somewhat limited, she at least had value as an assistant and was worth examining.
"Elves?"
Azriel was somewhat puzzled.
"Why go to those weeds?"
Obviously, she felt that with Ryuga's status, there was no need to lower himself, though she had no idea what Ryuga's actual status was.
"Master's orders—where are all these whys coming from?"
To this, Jibril's response was much simpler.
"Then let's depart now! I remember the Elves moved their capital, but it should still be on this continent."
Under Jibril's guidance, the three figures disappeared from their location.
Elf Kingdom.
The Elf who had gained praise from Forest God Kainas, the famous Crowned Lore Thinks Nirvalen, was walking alone on a forest path.
Under Ryuga's intervention, Jibril hadn't conducted the latter two dragon hunts.
Without being inexplicably struck on the head by some strange Flügel using that as an excuse to unleash Heaven's Strike for destructive attacks, the current Elf capital was naturally peaceful.
Thinks Nirvalen was still a renowned genius among the Elves, and hadn't yet begun researching Void Zero techniques.
In most people's view—or rather, throughout the entire No Game No Life world—a vassal's loyalty to their Lord God was the most natural thing.
Even Jibril's rebellion could be viewed as loyalty to some degree.
However, in such an environment, there was one unique exception.
The only one who could insult her own Lord God with the most extreme vocabulary was the Crown Lore with questionable loyalty.
"Why hasn't that idiot deity died in the toilet with the elders? I still have so many techniques to research, but he's dumping these boring tasks on me. With this kind of work efficiency, he still wants to compete for the Star Grail? These wastes couldn't catch up to hot shit if they ate it!"
She cursed the elders and deity above without regard for image, using extremely harsh language.
If other Elves heard such words, they would definitely be shocked and judge her for the great crime of blasphemy.
The deity's majesty could not be violated.
Fortunately, she maintained detection magic at all times, having long confirmed the area was safe with absolutely no one able to approach without her detection.
So no matter what complaints she had, she could vent freely—
"Master, this seems to be the place!"
Seeing the three figures that suddenly appeared before her, Thinks Nirvalen's heart completely stopped.
To be continued…