Shien was speechless, his heart pounding. He could sense that Nien was serious, not joking. She truly had the urge to destroy everything, but she was suppressing it.
“Because even if I do that, it won’t change anything,” Nien said self-deprecatingly, “Even if the world is destroyed, I will still be me, a goddess who shouldn’t exist, forced to bear the greatest pain, bound to the [Hero Summoning], a large-scale, cross-world summoning ritual, merged with the ritual itself.”
Nien’s words shocked Shien.
“A goddess who shouldn’t exist, merged with the Hero Summoning itself?” He stared at her in astonishment.
Meeting his shocked gaze, Nien smiled, a calm, indifferent smile.
“You heard right. I am the [Hero Summoning], the largest ritual in Omnipotence, and the goddess merged with it, an existence unknown to anyone except the Supreme God and the Demon King, a being who shouldn’t exist.”
Saying this, she explained,
“I could summon you to this world because I am the [Hero Summoning] ritual itself. After a thousand years of accumulation, having unknowingly absorbed enough of the world’s magic power, the ritual, or rather, I myself, was activated.”
“The Supreme God’s blessing was also bestowed upon you by me, because it was something the Supreme God placed deep within the ritual, meant for the last Hero, only to be activated when the God Race faced annihilation. But I took it and gave it to you.”
“It can be said that you are the miracle I personally summoned, a Hero who belongs only to me.”
As she spoke, mysterious runes suddenly appeared on Nien’s body, runes as profound as the universe’s truths, as complex as the secrets of chaos, making one’s mind reel and their vision blur just by looking at them.
They were runes of the ritual, etched onto the goddess Nien, the greatest miracle and mystery in this world – the [Hero Summoning].
“I can summon you here at any time using this ritual,” Nien said, spreading her arms and showcasing herself as the “ritual,” her tone sarcastic, “I am the Hero Summoning, and the Hero Summoning is me. Therefore, my connection with the Hero is the strongest. Wherever he is, I can see him, find him, and even read his mind.”
“At the same time, because it’s a cross-world magic ritual, I can also observe and monitor the world itself through it.”
“This is the Supreme God Omnis’s greatest masterpiece after the creation of the world.”
“How about it? Impressive, right?” Nien’s sarcasm intensified.
Shien looked at her with a complex expression.
“…I have a question,” he said, suppressing his emotions, “Why do you have the same name as the first Hero?”
Nien’s movements paused slightly, then she calmed down.
“Although I don’t really want to answer this question, since I’ve dragged you here, if I don’t answer some of your questions, you probably won’t let this go, right?” She looked at Shien, “Then I’ll answer you.”
The runes on her body dimmed and disappeared.
Then, she said,
“The reason I have this name is simple. It’s because the Supreme God is obsessed with it.”
Nien’s words made Shien frown in confusion.
“Obsessed?” What did that mean?
“Let me tell you a story,” Nien said, seeing his confusion, sighing softly.
“A long, long time ago, before the God Race, the Human Race, and the Demon Race were born, there were only two beings in the world.”
“One was the omnipotent Goddess, and the other the destructive Demon King. They were natural enemies, constantly fighting.”
“The sky shattered from their collisions.”
“The earth crumbled under their power.”
“The world was destroyed several times, reborn and destroyed again and again, shattered by the battle between these two supreme beings.”
“Until the omnipotent Goddess began to create other worlds, ordinary worlds without power or mystery, not connected to Omnipotence.”
Hearing this, Shien couldn’t help but interrupt.
“Wait!” he said cautiously, “Are you talking about the world I used to live in?”
“More accurately, the worlds where you Heroes used to live,” Nien said with a smirk, “Indeed, those worlds were also created by Omnis, as a breeding ground for a ‘third person,’ a being to oppose the Goddess and the Demon King, the Hero.”
As mentioned before, this world could only accommodate two transcendent beings, no room for a third.
Then, where did Heroes, the natural enemies of both the Goddess and the Demon King, come from?
“The omnipotent Goddess saw the possibility of this third being, and with her omnipotence, she learned about the concept of ‘Hero,’ knowing that although she was countered by the Demon King, she also countered the Hero, and the Hero, in turn, countered the Demon King.”
However, this world couldn’t nurture a third transcendent being, not allowing the birth of a “third person.”
“Therefore, Omnis decided to create other worlds as a breeding ground for Heroes.”
This was the truth behind the existence of other worlds.