Chapter 825: Chapter 752: The Truth
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That was the long-lost feeling of spinning world.
The familiar dizziness attacked Shane’s brain, making him seem to lose consciousness for a few seconds, as if thrown into invisible water, drifting with the currents, always unable to reach the destination.
Fortunately, this feeling came quickly and went quickly.
When the dizziness faded, Shane reacted and quickly raised his head.
With this head raise, Shane saw the equally familiar building.
It was the solemn and sacred Temple.
It was the sight he saw when he first came to this world.
And in the very center of the Temple, that breathtakingly beautiful figure stood as if eternally, unchanged for millennia.
Her face was full of helplessness.
“In the end, my existence was still exposed.”
The Goddess named Nien mumbled so unhappily.
Shane was silent, staring straight at the goddess in front of him, for a moment, completely not knowing what to say.
There was no choice.
He really hadn’t seen this goddess in quite a while.
“Don’t blame me.” Nien, as always, read Shane’s inner voice, looking still somewhat helplessly said: “If I could, I wouldn’t want it to be this way either.”
To know, before this, Nien was very eagerly preparing to “learn” something and then “do” something with Shane.
But suddenly, she disappeared without a trace, without a sound, indeed making Shane puzzled.
But Nien had to temporarily reduce contact with Shane during this time.
“The Divine Race is already beginning to investigate the Hero Summoning, and although the Life Goddess isn’t difficult, she’s very patient and has been investigating continuously. I have to split my attention to monitor them, which takes a considerable amount of energy. Who would have thought that troublesome Moon Demon would also start investigating, and without anyone noticing, she seems to have discovered something, so I had no choice but to completely disappear, not daring to make an appearance.”
Nien sighed repeatedly.
“Who would have thought that Moon Demon relied on her intellect to investigate to this extent. Since that’s the case, even if I’m unwilling, I have to act.”
In other words, the fact that Nien pulled Shane here without room for debate had already exposed her existence to Sera.
Her existence will no longer be a secret starting today.
Of course…
“Stop talking about stuff I don’t understand on your own.” Shane protested: “At least explain to me what’s going on now?”
Shane’s dissatisfaction was already evident.
No, it’s not dissatisfaction; rather, it’s a mix of complex emotions leading to irritation.
As the saying goes, events are hard to predict. After not seeing each other for a while, Shane’s situation has completely changed from before.
He has not only grown up, possessing a certain amount of power but also encountered some hidden truths unknown to the world.
For example, the true reason for the birth of the Divine Race was to nurture Heroes.
For example, the Human Race was created as life forms modeled after Heroes.
Then there’s also the existence of an incomplete Demon in this world.
And, the matter of the First Generation Brave.
Perhaps reading Shane’s mind, the helplessness on Nien’s face gradually faded.
It was replaced by calm and indifference.
Just like when Shane was first summoned to this world, before completing his reincarnation, just meeting this goddess for the first time.
“I know you have many questions.” Nien said quietly: “But if possible, I do not wish for you to know too much.”
“Why?” Shane stared directly at Nien, aggressively: “Is it because you want to play some riddle game?”
At this point, Nien still deliberately hiding stuff and not wanting to say anything would indeed be irritating.
To this, Nien sighed softly.
“Don’t overthink it.” Nien whispered to herself: “I don’t want to say, not because I want to hide from you on purpose, but because, to me, it’s truly not a topic that can be casually brought up.”
“Not a topic that can be casually brought up?” Shane paused.
“Yes.” Nien said very coldly, even icily: “Just thinking about it, I have the urge to destroy everything. How can I casually bring up such a topic?”
“This…” Shane was speechless.
Simultaneously, Shane also felt a bit uneasy.
Because he could feel that Nien was serious, not joking.
She really has thoughts of wanting to destroy everything.
It’s just, she restrained herself.
“Because even doing so wouldn’t help anything.” Nien said self-mockingly: “Even if the world is destroyed, I would still be me, the one forced to endure the greatest pain, also forced to remain in the cross-world large-scale summoning ceremony of Hero Summoning, merging with this ceremony itself as the goddess who shouldn’t exist.”
Nien’s words shook Shane’s heart.
“The Goddess who shouldn’t exist, integrated with the Hero Summoning itself?”
Shane looked at Nien in astonishment.
Facing Shane’s astonished gaze, Nien suddenly smiled.
That smile was calm and indifferent.
“You heard correctly. I am the very Hero Summoning itself, the largest scale ritual Magic Technique of Omni Potanssen, and also the Goddess integrated with it.”
“A being known only to the Supreme God and the Demon King.”
“An existence that should not be.”
Saying this, Nien began to speak slowly.
“The reason I could summon you to this world is that I am the Magic Technique of Hero Summoning itself. After accumulating magic power from the world over a millennium without leaving a trace, the technique, which is me, finally activated on its own.”
“Supreme God’s Blessing was also given to you by me because it is something stored at the deepest part of the Magic Technique by the Supreme God, meant for the last Hero, used only during the Divine Race’s greatest calamity, but I took it upon myself to extract it and forcibly apply it to you.”
“In a sense, you are a miracle summoned by me alone, a Hero exclusively mine.”
With these words, mysterious patterns suddenly appeared on Nien’s body.
Those patterns were profound as the truths of the universe, making one’s mind boil with just a glance.
The patterns were complex as the secrets of chaos, dizzying just to look at.
Those were Magic Techniques.
Engraved on the body of the Goddess named Nien, the greatest miracle and mystery of this world — the Hero Summoning.
“I can always summon you here, relying on this Magic Technique.”
Nien opened her hands, displaying herself transformed as the Magic Technique, and spoke with irony.
“I am the Hero Summoning, the Hero Summoning is me, thus the connection between me and the Hero is the tightest, wherever he is, I can see, find, even read him, including his heart.”
“At the same time, because it is a cross-world magic technique, I can also use it to observe and monitor the world itself.”
“This is the Supreme God Ominis’ greatest work after creating the world.”
“How about it? Impressive, right?”
Nien said this, with an increasing tone of sarcasm.
Shane could only look at her with extremely complex emotions.
“…I have a question.” Shane suppressed his complex emotions and asked in a low voice, “Why do you have the same name as the First Generation Brave?”
Nien paused slightly in her movements.
Soon after, she regained her composure.
“Though I don’t really want to answer that, having dragged you here, you wouldn’t let it go without resolving some doubts, right?” Nien looked at Shane and said, “Then I’ll answer that question for you.”
After these words, the patterns on Nien’s body dimmed and gradually disappeared.
And then, she spoke.
“The reason I have this name is quite simple; it’s because the Supreme God has an obsession with this name.”
Nien’s words made Shane frown and puzzled.
“Obsession?”
What does this mean?
“Let me tell you a story.”
Seeing Shane’s confusion, Nien sighed and slowly began to narrate.
“Long, long ago, before the Divine Race, Human Race, or Demon Clan came into being, the world had only two lives.”
“One was the almighty Goddess, the other the destructive Demon King, as if natural enemies, they were always in battle.”
“The sky shattered as they collided.”
“The earth was ravaged by their power.”
“The world was destroyed multiple times, went through rebirths and endings, due to their battles, shattered time and again.”
“Until, the almighty Goddess began to create other worlds, ordinary worlds without power or mystery, disconnected from Omni Potanssen.”
Upon hearing this, Shane was already unsettled.
“Wait!” Shane interrupted quickly, swallowing nervously, and cautiously said, “The worlds you’re mentioning, could they be the ones I lived in?”
“More precisely, they are the worlds where all you Heroes once lived.” Nien said with a faint smile, “Yes, those worlds were also created by Supreme God Ominis, to serve as the soil for the ‘Third Person’, nurturing a third being to stand against the Goddess and the Demon King, the Hero.”
It has been said before, this world only permits two out-of-standard existences to be born, leaving no space for a third of equal caliber.
So, from where did the Hero, who is born to counteract both the Goddess and the Demon King, come from?
“The almighty Goddess foresaw the possibility of the third being’s emergence, and with her omniscience and omnipotence, she knew of the concept of the ‘Hero,’ understood that although she was suppressed by the Demon King, she also restrained the entity known as the Hero, and named Heroes were meant to suppress the Demon King.”
However, this world is no longer able to birth a third outstanding being, does not allow for the ‘Third Person’.”
“Thus, Supreme God Ominis decided to create other worlds as the soil from which to grow the entity called the Hero.”
This is the truth behind the existence of the Otherworld.