Chapter 229: 228 ‘Hero Summoning Ceremony Chapter 229: 228 ‘Hero Summoning Ceremony In the sacred and solemn Temple, silence descended, making the recent clamor seem non-existent, leaving behind an emptiness.
Nien watched the direction where Shane had vanished while touching her own lips, her cheeks gradually losing their flush of red.
“Everyone has left, it’s about time for you to come out, isn’t it?”
After a while, Nien quietly uttered these words.
The response to Nien’s words was a rueful chuckle.
“I thought you hadn’t noticed me.”
Along with these words, a graceful figure emerged from the space as if out of thin air and appeared in front of Nien.
Seeing this figure, to tell the truth, Nien was rather surprised.
“I never imagined that someone could actually make their way here.” Nien looked at the other, saying, “If I remember correctly, you’re called Laischa, aren’t you?”
“…So you knew about me?” Laischa, equally surprised and somewhat taken aback, replied, “I thought you wouldn’t recognize me.”
“How could I not?” Nien smiled and said, “Though I can’t leave this place, I can still observe other worlds to a certain extent, directly perceiving some of their domains—I have naturally learned of your existence.”
“That is indeed an honor.” Laischa said this with a face devoid of any semblance of feeling honored, instead staring intently at Nien, “In that case, you should know why I have crossed worlds through great difficulties to come here, right?”
“If I’m not wrong,” Nien said calmly, “you are puzzled by the Hero Summoning, aren’t you?”
“Yes.” Laischa spoke frankly, “I want to know why, after a thousand years, the Hero was suddenly summoned.”
“So that’s why you’ve been following Shane, hiding in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity until I called Shane here. You then took advantage of the power of Space Magic to sneak into my Summoning Technique for Shane to arrive here, right?” Nien couldn’t help showing a smile that was not quite a smile, “Then you should have heard what I just said to Shane, knowing the reason why I summoned him, right?”
As soon as these words left Nien’s mouth, Laischa directly denied them.
“That reason is just a pretext.” Laischa said without hesitation, “You should be very clear, it’s impossible for a new Demon King to be created, right?”
A new Demon King could not be created.
“Both Demon King Cladis and Supreme God Ominis were the first to emerge from the void, the first beings and concepts.”
These two entities were the unshakeable origin, the beginning of everything.
Even the world was created by Supreme God Ominis afterwards, hence these two supreme beings could not have been birthed by the world itself.
It’s not as if without them, there would be no world at all.
Therefore, whether it be Supreme God Ominis or Demon King Cladis, there would only be one of each, there would not be a second.
“The Old Demon Clan Faction may have planned well, but even after a thousand years, they only managed to create a bizarre monster at best. Even if they continue down this path, at most they could create The Seventh Demon, but certainly not a second Demon King.”
Laischa laid bare the contradictions within this matter.
“Even if The Seventh Demon was successfully born in the end, there would still be plenty of entities in this world capable of confronting it.”
“The situation cannot be said to be insubstantial, yet it’s not so dire that it necessitates a Hero Summoning.”
“Besides, in today’s era, if a Hero Summoning were to be initiated, the problems it would cause by itself are no less significant than those posed by the birth of The Seventh Demon.”
“Your reason for summoning the Hero to counter this situation simply doesn’t hold water.”
Laischa proceeded to poke holes in Nien’s logic.
“Moreover, you have yet to explain how you were able to silently initiate a Hero Summoning and call forth the Hero without using any of the three conventional methods.”
“Also, exactly who are you, and why do you appear in a place , even bearing a striking resemblance to Supreme God Ominis? You haven’t mentioned that either.”
“You hold other secrets within you.”
Laischa stated bluntly.
“I hope to find the truth, and this is something I must know.”
For this reason, Laischa paid such close attention to Shane’s existence, to the Hero Summoning, to the extent that she was willing to remain hidden in the shadows, observing Shane’s surroundings.
Fortunately, Laischa was an expert in Space Magic and had the assistance of her Unique Skill. Even without approaching Shane, she could connect two domains through Space Magic and observe Shane’s situation.
Otherwise, even if Laischa had no hostile intent and wouldn’t trigger the “Enemy Detection” Skill, given Shane’s “Magic Perception” Skill, she wouldn’t have been able to stay so well hidden.
Now, Laischa had finally caught the opportunity. While Nien had summoned Shane here, Laischa took advantage of Space Magic as the axis and leaped into this summoning, arriving here to confront Nien directly.
And having finally caught such an opportunity, Laischa naturally wouldn’t let Nien go; she was determined to get everything cleared up.
“This is also a matter of great concern to you, isn’t it?” Nien lifted her eyelids, looked at Laischa, and couldn’t help but say sarcastically, “You snatched ‘that’ from the Royal Palace of the Mitra Kingdom. Like me, you were created and abandoned on a whim. Now that the Hero has appeared, you obviously cannot ignore it.”
Upon hearing this, Laischa’s expression changed.
“You say you… are the same as me…?”
Laischa seemed to realize something at last and exclaimed in astonishment.
“Could it be that you are…!?”
Laischa couldn’t finish her words.
Because Nien stopped her.
“I don’t care about your business at all.” Nien cut off Laischa mid-sentence, her tone somewhat indifferent, “All I pursue is the Hero, and as for everything else, it doesn’t matter to me.”
Now Laischa finally understood Nien’s intentions.
“You… you summoned the Hero just for that reason?” Laischa couldn’t believe it, “Are you insane?”
“Insane?” Nien suddenly laughed, the laugh somewhat out of control, “Yes, I am insane. If I don’t do something, I really will go mad.”
“That reason? Just that reason?” Nien couldn’t help but shout loudly, “But that reason is the very essence of my existence! My everything!”
“My very existence is for the purpose of summoning the Hero!”
“Now that the war is over, the goal achieved, they just abandon me here on their own accord?”
“I will never allow it!”
The space around Nien twisted and vibrated.
“If no one uses me, then I’ll just make use of myself!”
“Only the Hero is my reliance! My existential purpose!”
After saying this, Nien reached out toward Laischa, causing the space around Laischa to distort and tremble, pulling her in.
Laischa struggled and cried out.
Leaving behind this call, Laischa was absorbed by the twisted space, vanishing from sight.
Only Nien remained, looking towards the distant horizon, secretly shedding tears.
The Goddess who summoned the Hero called out the name of the one she had placed her everything in.
As if she was wailing in grief.