In a quiet mountain village, originally due to Earth's sudden change, there were continuous earthquakes.
Although the magnitude wasn't high, to be safe, everyone in the village gathered in an open area.
"Why are there earthquakes even late at night? So annoying!" Feeling the continuous tremors, Koshigaya Natsumi, sitting in the open area, felt extremely frustrated.
"Forget it. The earthquake should stop soon." Looking at Natsumi, Koshigaya Komari comforted her softly.
"Speaking of which, I wonder how Renge is doing over there. When she comes back, will she really have learned special magic? Ah, I'm so envious! And that delicious milk too!" Hearing Komari's words, Natsumi unconsciously thought of Renge and the Moomoo Milk Takeru had given them before...
"Uhh..." Hearing Natsumi mention magic and milk, Komari didn't know what to say. She was also quite envious of that.
Boom!
Just as everyone fell silent, a sudden loud crash came from the mountain.
"What's wrong, what's wrong? Is it the end of the world?" Hearing the loud sound and feeling the tremors, Natsumi stood up, somewhat panicked.
"Calm down, Natsumi. The sound seems to be coming from inside the mountains. It sounds like something fell from the sky." Natsumi's mother, Yukiko, quickly spoke.
Because it was night and many mountains blocked the view, they couldn't see what had fallen over there.
"I see. Onee-chan, let's go take a look tomorrow." Seeing this situation, Natsumi stood up. She had a premonition that something extraordinary had arrived over there, maybe even a giant treasure.
"Yes." Seeing Natsumi's quickly changing attitude, Komari thought for a moment, knew arguing would be useless, and directly nodded.
As for the dragon, after falling into this unfamiliar mountain range, due to its severe injuries, it couldn't be on guard against its surroundings and directly fell into a deep sleep...
Meanwhile, in another world, Ente Isla, the Demon Lord Satan was a figure known to all.
He ruled the Demon Realm filled with dark creatures and was a synonym for terror and cruelty.
But at this moment, this brutal Demon Lord was facing a great crisis.
Led by a Hero with his companions, humans were defeating the invading Demon army. Furthermore, the Hero was now backing the Demon Lord into a predicament.
With no other choice, Demon Lord Satan had to completely abandon his territory and influence, choosing to flee.
Arriving in the sky, under a blood-red moon, Demon Lord Satan shouted loudly, "You humans, Ente Isla is only temporarily entrusted to you. But I will definitely return to conquer you all, to return and rule Ente Isla!"
As he spoke, a purple-black portal appeared behind him. But at the critical moment, the portal triggered a special spatial vortex.
Without the Demon Lord Satan's knowledge, he directly drilled into the portal.
And his loyal subordinate, Alsiel, quickly followed him into the portal.
Unbeknownst to him, to completely deal with the Demon Lord, the Hero also plunged into the portal, disappearing from their world.
When Demon Lord Satan and Alsiel came to their senses, they found themselves in a bustling city.
Looking at the unfamiliar city and things, they were completely bewildered. Then, they discovered their appearances had drastically changed, completely turning into human forms.
Most importantly, the energy in their bodies was almost gone, and its recovery was extremely slow. Because the energy they used was quite special and scarce in this world, recovering it was very difficult.
As a result, their strength was reduced by more than ninety percent...
Their strange attire and behavior were directly noticed by a patrol officer. Although looking down on humans, seeing how weak they were now, the two followed the officer to the police station, hoping to obtain information from there...
Because of the language barrier, the initial communication wasn't very smooth. However, the Demon Lord Satan's speech was somewhat like a deformed foreign language.
After some communication, they barely managed to have a formal conversation.
But compared to normal conversation, the Demon Lord Satan was more accustomed to directly controlling others to obtain information.
So, without much thought, he used his remaining energy to control the officer, obtaining some information about this world from him.
However, due to the scarcity of energy, he soon released control of the officer. He then found his subordinate, Alsiel, and quickly left the police station.
But the Demon Lord Satan didn't know his actions had left him potential trouble. After all, this world was no longer ordinary. At the very least, it hadn't been for several months.
Besides these changes, many special entities had descended into many unknown places, though the people of Earth were temporarily unaware.
With the end of Earth's tremors, all Reincarnators received a surprising notification from their Reincarnation Watches.
The previously ten-day cycle for Reincarnation Missions had changed, uniformly becoming twenty days.
Also, the remaining time until the next mission had changed from seven days to seventeen days...
Seeing the notification from their Reincarnation Watches, Yukino, Yui, and the others instinctively tried to call Takeru first.
However, Takeru, immersed in training Food Honor in the portable space, was completely unaware.
Also, due to Takeru's request, the Reincarnation Space wouldn't notify him at this time.
Unable to reach Takeru, they discussed in the group chat for a while. But after much discussion, they couldn't reach any conclusion and could only temporarily give up.
As for Takeru, after training in the training space for roughly 200 hours, his Food Honor had reached an advanced level.
He could now easily catch Bubble Fruit. His cooking skills had also reached a higher level.
For example, with many animals, Takeru could easily dissect them without their awareness, leaving only the head, and they could still easily survive for several months.
Also, processing the extremely difficult Puffer Whale had reached a 100% success rate. And if Takeru wanted, he could leave only its head and skeleton, and it could still survive for a year.
Seeing these results, Takeru ended this training session.
As for Ultimate Gratitude, that ultimate form of thanks, Takeru knew he couldn't achieve it in a short time. He would have to rely on continuous training later.
Then, after testing his strength for a while, making the time reach exactly 200 hours, Takeru left the training space satisfied.
Then, Takeru looked at his points. He had trained for 200 hours this time, consuming exactly 25,600 points. His remaining points were 480,900.
In the real world, 40 hours had passed. After arriving outside, Takeru noticed that the start time for the Reincarnation Mission had changed from ten days to twenty days.
Worried about what had happened, Takeru quickly disappeared from the portable space and went outside...
After coming outside, Takeru saw the phone calls from everyone on his phone.
Then, Takeru took a look at the group chat and roughly understood that everyone was contacting him mainly because of the change in the Reincarnation Mission time.
Shaking his head, Takeru directly teleported back to the villa.
Noticing Takeru's return, Diablo, Ram, and the others came to pay their respects.
"Takeru-sama, you've returned." Diablo said respectfully.
"Yes. Did anything happen while I was away?" Looking at Diablo, Takeru asked directly.
"Yes. Last night, Earth experienced a global tremor. A large number of spatial vortexes appeared in the sky, seemingly connecting to many worlds, but they quickly disappeared." Hearing Takeru's question, Diablo answered truthfully.
With his abilities, seeing these things was naturally very simple.
"Connected to other worlds but quickly disappeared?" Hearing this, Takeru was stunned. As for what changes the world would undergo, Takeru couldn't say. Only by improving his own strength and staying constant to cope with change would be best.
After roughly understanding these matters, Takeru went to see Miu, Hinata, and the others. To their questions, Takeru told them he had been training.
Then, having Rem, Karin, and the others help prepare the food, Takeru ate heartily with everyone.
...
Meanwhile, in the small mountain village where Renge was born, due to last night's loud crash, instigated by Natsumi, everyone headed towards the source of the sound.
"Hey, hey, there aren't any monsters there, are there?" Walking along the road, Ichijo Hotaru said somewhat uneasily.
"I-it probably won't be..." Hearing Hotaru's words, the previously calm and composed Komari stiffened.
"Don't worry. If there's a problem, I'll protect you all." Looking at them, Fujimiya Konomi said confidently.
"Yes, thank you, Konomi-nee." Hearing Konomi say this, they smiled slightly but didn't take it seriously.
After all, Natsumi and the others didn't know Konomi was a Reincarnator. This was related to the fact that Konomi had never mentioned it herself nor shown her power in the village.
Or rather, because she usually lived in the city, she didn't spend much time in the village.