Omnis.
The origin of the world, the source of the gods. The one known as the omnipotent and highest goddess.
That kind of existence has since become merely a legend by now.
But, at this moment, Shien saw her. Saw this peerless goddess lying down in a field of flowers as she deeply slumbered.
However, that’s not the thing that surprised Shien the most.
The thing that surprised Shien the most is that legendary goddess’s looks.
“You two…”
Shien took a look at that slumbering goddess and then took a look at Nien with a speechless expression.
It couldn’t be helped.
The Highest God Omnis that Nien mentioned looked exactly identical to her.
But when Nien stared at the goddess that was completely identical to her among the flowers, her eyes were cold, and even had a hint of hatred in them.
I know what you’re thinking.” Nien spoke tonelessly, “There’s a reason for us looking identical.”
Only, Nien didn’t seem to want to say what that reason is.
And Shien could feel it too, that it’s a taboo subject.
Thus, Shien could only suppress his confusion and instead ask something else.
“What’s with her then?”
Given that the Highest God Omnis was deeply slumbering like that, it feels like something unbelievable has happened to her.
As Shien thought that, Nien instead ended up breaking out in laughter.
“You think that something happened to her?” Nien spoke sarcastically, “There’s no way that’s possible. She’s the all powerful Highest God, the greatest and most peerless existence. Baring the Demon King Claudis, who else could do anything to her?”
“… Then why’s she like that then?” Shien fell silent for a moment before asking, “Is she really just simply sleeping?”
The response to that question was a firm answer though.
“That’s right. She really is just sleeping. And this sleep has gone on for a thousand years at that.”
The sarcastic look on Nien’s face not only didn’t disappear, it even became more and more pronounced.
“In the eyes of that goddess, besides the Demon King Claudis, all else in the world are nothing more than something like a pebble on the side of the road.”
“It’s because she had created everything, that she ruled over everything. She could control all life and events with but a whim, and even the world itself is something that she can change with a snap of her fingers.”
“Thus, she places no importance in anything. She won’t seriously look at anything. The only thing that can actually get her attention is Demon King Claudis.”
As she spoke, Nien’s tone turned more and more resentful.
“Even though she had wanted to defeat the Demon King since she was born. To defeat Claudis and slay the only natural threat to her. But after she’s reached her goal, she lost all interest in everything else.”
“After loosing the only thing she cared about, after loosing her lone obsession, was there really anything in this world that she could create at a whim that’s worth her paying attention to?”
“No, there isn’t anything at all.”
Nien turned to look at Shien.
“The result is that woman decided to slumber. She believed that this world no longer required her to continue, nor is there any need for her to interfere anymore.”
“With that kind of thoughs, she haven’t woken up once since the creation of the divine realm. She just continued to lie there, eternally existing alongside the world itself.”
“Aren’t you stunned? Aren’t you speechless?”
“But that’s the Highest God. This is the omnipotent Omnis. A true divine being beyond creation itself. She’s completely different from us be it in thoughts or point of view.”
“She really is something, right?”
As she got to this point, Nien’s tone of voice has already gotten very strange.
It’s like she resented something, but also that she was sorrowful for some reason. It made it that Shien really didn’t know just what to say in response.
Shien only wanted to know one thing.
“Then, just why did you summon me?”
Shien asked the question that he wanted to know the most.
Rather than the unfathomable nature of the Highest God Omnis, rather than the relationship between Nien and that goddess, this was what Shien wanted to know more.
In response, Nien calmed herself back down and looked at Shien serenely. Then, she finally answered.
“I told you. I wanted you to defeat the Demon King.” Nien said, “You might think that I’m lying, but this is the truth.”
“Truth?” Shien frowned as he spoke, confused, “But the Demon King has already been defeated. And it can’t possibly be resurrected at that. Unless something were to happen to the Highest God Omnis, then she can never return to this world? Was that not right?”
“That’s right.” Nien nodded, but she then continued, “However, just because the Demon King cannot be resurrected, doesn’t mean that a new one can’t appear.”
“New one?” Shien was stunned for a moment before his expression drastically changed.
He had basically guessed what Nien meant.
As expected…
“Someone is trying to create a new Demon King. Then they’ll have the new Demon King replace the Old Demon King that can’t be revived, take control of the demon race again, and then restart the war against the gods and mortals.”