Chapter 643

"Broly King, the planet spaceship engine has been upgraded and modified; we estimate the time to cross this stellar system at approximately 55 to 60 days. If you have not yet returned from the other world by the time we reach the edge of this stellar system, we will temporarily halt at the edge."

Since Cila wanted to act as a happiness value storage tank, she had not yet joined the Crystal Palace for the time being, so Broly still had to face the Crystal Palace's positioning problem.

However, judging by the time of previous transmigrations to other worlds for extrapolation, this time should also be sufficient; at worst, he could activate that new variable-speed transmigration function.

"Broly, when will you come back?"

Cila came over to ask; her life on Nappa Star was fairly happy by now, but the most familiar boy preparing to leave the planet still made her feel slightly uneasy.

"I don't know the specific time of return either, because every time I transmigrate, the basic duration of stay in the other world depends on the degree of rejection of the other world toward visitors from other worlds."

Broly shook his head and said.

"Don't worry, Nappa Star is also your home now; before I return, if you want to kill time, there are manga and game consoles.

If you want to learn something, like martial arts or such, you can consult Ankira and them; if you want to learn literary subjects, there are also scientists like Kaguga you can consult."

"Miss Cila, I, Kaguga, would be delighted to serve you."

The goblin-like Kaguga bowed to the girl, his attitude extremely respectful.

Broly King's future wife was practically the same as Nappa Star's future Queen.

"If you want to learn management knowledge, you can consult my father, or self-study by reading books on your own."

Broly patted Cila's head; the girl's soft white hair felt very comfortable to the touch.

"Alright then, Broly."

Life on Nappa Star, compared to life on Leka Star, was like heaven.

After understanding the Crystal Palace's situation, Cila understood that maintaining a good mood every day was the best repayment to the boy.

"I'll miss you; this is day one, I'm going to find Luna and Mace!"

Cila kissed the boy on the cheek, then waved and ran off to find Luna and Mace to play.

Of course, Cila's life now wasn't just play; her lowly origins gave the girl great motivation to improve herself.

Although according to what Luna said, she could completely be the boy's vase, in her own opinion, Cila felt she still wanted to be a role capable of helping the boy, doing things within her ability.

Mhm, in Huangquan Miss's words, that would be a virtuous and capable wife, though she didn't quite understand it either.

Broly watched the girl leave, only then calling up the Crystal Palace panel.

Crystal Palace otherworld transmigration, activate!

The surrounding scene shifted, and Broly appeared on a stretch of green plains.

Broly didn't mind the environment, instead checking his stay duration first, and saw the Crystal Palace panel displaying: stay information of 150 days 5 hours 22 minutes.

This new otherworld didn't seem to reject outsiders much; the base stay duration was actually as long as five months.

Spacetime Energy Slot: 35/40, need to open 3x speed, so an additional 15 points of spacetime energy consumption is needed.

【Whether to activate time speed-up?】

【Note 1: Once time speed-up is activated for this transmigration, the time speed-up effect cannot be actively cancelled.】

【Note 2: Time speed-up will affect the normal use of the Group Chat Room and the Crystal Palace internal environment module space.】

"Crystal Palace, can I extend the stay duration first, then activate time speed-up?"

Broly calculated his spacetime energy, didn't directly activate speed-up, but consulted the Crystal Palace instead.

【Yes.】

The Crystal Palace quickly gave a reply.

"Can the extended stay duration also be sped up?"

【Yes, the speed-up ratio is calculated only based on the total stay duration.】

"Then can I extend the stay duration after already activating the speed-up function?"

The Crystal Palace crashed for a moment, as if after a period of computation it gave a reply: 【This Crystal Palace does not currently support complex time operations.】

"Alright."

Broly shrugged; the idea of activating speed-up first, then deciding whether to extend the stay duration in this otherworld after finding the capture target of this world, came to nothing directly.

"150 days, just spending 5 more points of spacetime energy can double it to 300 days, that's very cost-effective; spending another 30 points of spacetime energy points can compress the time point of return to my own world to 50 days after my departure..."

Broly merely thought slightly, then went all-in with all his accumulated spacetime energy points.

【The bigger the waves, the more expensive the fish】, 【Life is like a high-stakes gamble, going all-in is a kind of wisdom】...

Shaking off these strange bits of information that popped up in his head, Broly began observing the new world he had arrived at.

Mhm, it had the feeling of when he first went to the Six-Faced World; both were wilderness grassland scenery.

Broly raised his head to look at the sky, but didn't discover any rabbits flying with big ears; instead there were several creatures resembling dragon-type Danger Beasts, slicing across the sky above his head, then like fighter jets, they began dive-bombing the ground.

Broly's position was on higher terrain; he soon spotted, following the dive direction of the dragon-type Danger Beast creatures, a convoy moving in the distance.

"It's Flying Dragons, ordinary people quickly hide under the carriages, guards prepare to intercept with me!"

The captain responsible for guarding the convoy shouted loudly; the ordinary people in the convoy didn't dare be careless, each hurriedly finding the nearest vehicle and crawling underneath.

A white-haired youth with rabbit-colored pupils, eyes shining under the carriage, observed the situation outside the vehicle.

He knew there were normally reproducing monsters in the wilderness, but actually seeing monsters was still a first in his life.

Before, in the village he could only see normal wild beasts; he didn't expect that just a few days after leaving the village, on the road preparing to head to the Dungeon City, he would encounter a monster attack.

This perhaps was what Grandpa said, that every heroic figure, when just starting their adventure, will always encounter extraordinary experiences~

The youth was a little excited, feeling like he was experiencing a hero's origin story, even though he was currently just a person taking refuge under a carriage.

"Bang—"

A Flying Dragon dive-bombed and smashed down; the convoy's guards held up shields, intercepting the attacks of three Flying Dragons, but one carriage was still overturned by the last remaining Flying Dragon.

The horses trying to flee were caught, and in an instant were disemboweled by the Flying Dragon; the reason wilderness monsters attacked the convoy was probably just for food.

"Ah—"

The scene of blood splattering everywhere frightened the Rabbit Person girl who had been hiding under that overturned carriage earlier; even though her mother was right beside her holding her tightly, the eleven or twelve-year-old small girl still cried out in alarm, and the sound drew the attention of the Flying Dragon that was feeding.

The Dragon-type monster's vertical pupils looked over; the Rabbit Person mother had already covered her daughter's mouth, but fear still made her body tremble uncontrollably.

The Flying Dragon looked at the horses under its claws, then looked at the Rabbit Person mother and daughter over there, as if feeling the prey over there was more delicious; it quickly gave up on the horses and approached the Rabbit Person mother and daughter.

This caravan was temporarily formed by several small Merchant Caravans joining together; the caravans pooled money to hire guards and travel together.

The Rabbit Person mother and daughter were merely passersby who had paid the travel fee; among the passengers there wasn't much relation, basically all strangers who didn't know each other.

At a moment like this, who would be willing to take the risk of drawing the Flying Dragon's attention to save people completely unrelated to themselves?

The answer is: a greenhorn country boy who yearns to become a hero, Bell Cranel crawled out from under the carriage, picked up a stone from the ground, and hurled it at that Flying Dragon's head.

His throwing ability wasn't bad; he accurately hit the Flying Dragon's head, though it dealt 0 damage, it did attract the Flying Dragon's attention.

"A hero is someone who, in a moment of crisis, can step forward to help those who need help!"

These were the words of his already deceased grandpa, and now he had done it.

Just as the Flying Dragon looked over this way, a sense of fear inevitably welled up in his heart.

A human boy somewhat like a rabbit, surrounded by fear, turned and ran.

He didn't run back toward the carriage side, because that might harm the others also hiding under the carriage.

The boy chose to run toward the road the caravan came from; in that direction there was a patch of woods.

And in hero stories, to avoid certain dangerous flying monsters, hiding in woods with complex terrain, such thrilling escape bridge scenes are also very common plots.

Often helping his grandpa run errands in the village, the boy was still confident in his speed; he believed he could make it to the woods before the Flying Dragon caught up to him.

But imagination and reality still have a difference; feeling a vicious wind strike from behind, the boy subconsciously lunged forward; although he dodged the attack of the Flying Dragon that had locked onto him, he also fell heavily onto the ground.

The Flying Dragon landed, blocking his front; its fanged mouth still had the fresh blood from biting the horses to death just now; the boy swallowed his saliva, wanted to climb up and flee, but discovered his legs had gone somewhat soft.

【Grandpa, I mustered courage to save someone, but it seems I'm about to die myself now; can I, dying like this, still be called a hero?】

Bell Cranel was about to cry; even with the Flying Dragon's approaching footsteps, an urge to urinate was pressing on his bladder.

This is merely an ordinary country boy who, because of the hero stories his grandpa told in his childhood, has yearned to become a hero since young.

He has courage, but not much; now facing death, the sliver of courage in his heart is like a candle about to be extinguished, about to be consumed entirely.

The Flying Dragon didn't know what the boy was thinking; it just approached and opened its mouth, preparing to bite to death this guy who dared throw a stone at it, making it feel pain.

The boy raised both hands to block in front of his face, as if this could hide the fear on his face, so he wouldn't appear so spineless before death.

But the imagined tearing pain of being mauled by the monster didn't appear; instead the Flying Dragon approaching him had its neck kicked clean through from behind by someone, fresh blood spraying from the break like a fountain.

The boy on the ground was stunned as he was drenched head-to-toe in the fresh blood, looking just like he'd been dyed the color of ketchup, and the sudden change before his eyes left Bell dazed.

"Hey, you alright?"

Only when the Flying Dragon's headless corpse fell with a bang did a boy who looked much smaller than him detour from behind the Flying Dragon's corpse and ask.

Bell Cranel only then reacted—he had been saved, and the one who saved him should be the boy speaking to him right now.

"Th... thank you!"

The cute-looking white-haired boy let out a long exhale; covered in Flying Dragon blood, he showed a grateful expression and solemnly thanked Broly.

"No need to be so polite; just now I saw it all—you had the courage to step up and help others."

Broly waved his hand; originally he planned to lend a hand at that moment, but the boy before him ran out and threw a stone, looking like he was having his highlight moment, so he continued observing.

Until the boy was pursued by the hate-filled Dragon-type creature and was about to be killed, only then did he flash over and kick the Dragon-type creature's neck clean through from behind.

"Ah, you saw all that?"

Bell felt a bit embarrassed.

"I only have courage, yet no capability; if not for you timely stepping in to save me, I might have been eaten by the Flying Dragon."

This situation made him feel like he was an overestimating fool.

"I'm Broly, a Saiyan who just arrived this side."

Broly extended a hand toward the boy on the ground.

"Bell Cranel, a Human who just came out of the village."

Bell subconsciously responded, grasped the boy's offered hand, and borrowed the leverage to stand up from the ground.

"I'll go help over there; you should be able to look after yourself, right?"

Broly looked at the boy whose legs were trembling, and asked somewhat uncertainly.

"Ah, I'm fine this side; you go ahead and help."

Bell hurriedly waved his hand in reply, then saw Broly tap his toes, his body like an arrow leaving the bowstring, shooting toward the caravan side.

In just a few moves, he kicked the necks of the other Flying Dragons that were entangled with the caravan guards one by one.

The movements so light, the posture so relaxed, as if what were being kicked through weren't the Flying Dragons' thick necks, but bamboo stalks that had become extremely brittle after being sun-baked.

Battle ended; Broly unsurprisingly received the thanks of the Caravan Leader and a few others, while the boy waved his hand, telling those people no need for politeness.

Bell, walking back, gazed at this scene and only felt: a hero should be just like that.

【Grandpa, I experienced a beginning story similar to a hero's, but the protagonist seems not to be me, but someone else; the other is the hero, while I am merely one of the supporting characters saved by the hero.】

Just as Bell was thinking this, a somewhat soft and childish voice came from beside him.

"White-haired Big Brother..."

Bell turned his head to look, and saw it was the Rabbit Person girl; she was looking at him.

"Young man, thank you; at the critical moment, you stepped forward and saved us mother and daughter..."

The Rabbit Person mother bowed in thanks; the snowy white cleavage revealed by her collar shifting made Bell, who hadn't had much contact with women, instantly blush.

Fortunately, his face was still covered in blood right now, so the blushing couldn't be seen; Bell hurriedly imitated that boy over there, waved his hand and said: "No need for politeness; this was merely a trivial effort."

After speaking, his blood-smeared face turned even redder.

【Grandpa, I was also thanked by the people I saved; this gives me a feeling of having become a hero too~】

The boy's mood was excellent; the bruises on his body didn't seem to hurt much anymore.

"Mr. Broly, are you also preparing to head to Orario? If you don't mind, would it be possible to travel together with us?"

On the other side, after the caravan leaders finished expressing their thanks, they asked Broly where he wanted to go.

They wanted to pull this person, who was suspected to be an Upper-Level Adventurer, into their own caravan to increase the safety of the remaining journey.

"I'm a newcomer and still don't know where I should go; if you can introduce me to the basic situation of this world, I don't mind serving as your guard for a while."

Broly saw through this group's thoughts, but didn't refuse either; he needed to get a general understanding of this Isekai.

Bell heard this and felt somewhat happy, because it meant that he, being in the same caravan, would have the opportunity to interact with a figure who made a heroic entrance.

(Chapter End)