Parallel Memory

She didn't know what Zero was worried about, but she declared that she would believe him.

"Zero, I believe you."

Professor Mia said as she looked directly into Zero's eyes.

Whether it was true or not didn't matter as Zero was greatly touched by her words.

He could only nod his head.

He didn't believe people could be trusted. In anger, jealousy, and sadness, people do lots of unbelievable things to others.

When a situation becomes dangerous, people would abandon their friends, and family to save themselves.

That's why it was so difficult for someone to believe in other humans completely.

The same was the case for Zero. He didn't completely trust Professor Mia and even if she had saved him, he was afraid that she would kill him eventually.

Who would believe someone who used Dark energy? There might be only a handful of people who would believe in me after I used Dark energy.

Professor Mia was one of them.

I could say anything back to her. It looks like Professor Mia trusts me more than I thought.

Then followed the period of recovery for both me and Professor Mia.

While Professor Mia's injuries were light compared to Zero, however, she was not in any condition to use her strong skills.

She could be in serious trouble if she met a strong monster.

While they were both resting, Professor Mia also made plans to leave the Gate.

They needed to find the boss of the Gate and defeat him.

It was a good idea to wait for reinforcements from outside but they did not know when those reinforcements were going to arrive.

It had already been a month since they had entered the Gate but there was no reinforcement from outside.

It might be just an hour outside even though one month has already passed inside the Gate.

According to Professor Mia, they might have to wait years for reinforcements to arrive.

The Gate was of very high rank, at least Rank-A, which would require Rank-S heroes and above to clear.

To minimize the casualties, The Authority recommends around 5 S-Rank heroes to conquer Rank-A Gate safely. And according to Professor Mia, it would take around 3 days outside the Gate.

Firstly, the S-Rank heroes who were close to the area were fighting with monsters from the dungeon outburst, so it was unlikely that they would come to help right away after exhausting themselves.

This means recruiting a new 5 S-Rank heroes from another place will take at least 3 days. In 3 days, it might already be one or two years here.

So we need to wait quite a long time for the reinforcements to arrive.

Even if we have to wait a long time, it might be possible with Professor Mia here. However, there were reasons why we needed to get out of the Gate quickly.

One reason was because of me. My condition is more serious than I thought.

If not treated quickly, I might die. My internal injuries could not be healed by low-level and mid-level potions.

I need to go to the hospital and have professional healers take care of me.

With potions, I could still stay alive and do things like normal people. I could even exert power equal to Rank-E without any side effects.

The power of Rank-E was useless in this Gate.

Anyway, we can't afford to wait for another reason. Our potions were running low.

Not to mention, I, who is surviving on potions, even Professor Mia will be in danger once potions are depleted.

Professor Mia might be able to fight and kill Rank-A monsters in this Gate but if she is injured, which is likely as she will need to fight with Rank-A monsters, she would not have any ways to heal her injuries.

Unlike monsters, who have insane regeneration, humans are very fragile.

Human regeneration is very slow and recovery of injuries takes quite some time and without potions, it might be very difficult to heal some wounds in the dungeon.

The option to stay hidden is also gone because our food resource is also running low. We need to kill monsters for food.

Therefore, it was better if we could defeat the Gate boss and get out of the Gate instead of worrying about those problems.

However, the problem was, judging from the Rank of the monster in the Gate, the boss monster could be Rank-S -.

To defeat the S-Rank boss monster, we would need at least one SS-Rank or at least 5 S-Rank heroes.

It was impossible for us, with just Professor Mia and me, to conquer this Gate.

The probability of staying alive was more if we stayed hidden.

Professor Mia can probably survive for at least one year even if she doesn't have any potions with her.

I concluded that the probability of surviving was more if we didn't go looking for the boss.

I told Professor Mia what I thought, that it was better for us to just stay away from the boss.

The only one who would be more likely to die if the Gate was not conquered quickly was me. Although I didn't say that.

"We should just wait for reinforcements. The boss monster is likely to be Rank-S -. You can't defeat it."

I said. I am not underestimating Professor Mia's powers, but it was the truth.

She might defeat the normal Rank-S monster if she was lucky enough but the boss monster of Rank-S was impossible.

Boss monster means that it is the most talented monster at that Rank.

Similar to Hiro and Lisa, who is one of the strongest in their respective ranks. Even those people who are ranked higher than them might not defeat them, not to mention people of similar rank.

The same was the case for boss monsters. Even Rank-S humans might not be able to defeat S-rank boss monsters.

"There is no need to worry too much. We should first find the boss monster before concluding that the boss monster is Rank-S."

Professor Mia said. Though she said that, I know that she already knows that the Gate we are currently in is one of the highest-ranking Gates, even among Rank-A Gates.

But it seems that Professor Mia is really set on conquering the Gate.

Though I know why she is doing this, I don't think it's worth it.

My life was not important in comparison to Professor Mia's.

Between Rank-A + human life and Rank-D + human life, it is obvious whose life is more significant.

Many might argue that human life is equal but it really is not. A Rank-A human can save more lives than a Rank-D human.

In a world filled with disaster, those who can save more lives should be worth more.

However, Professor Mia does not seem to think so. I could only think,

( Is it worth it? )