"Come to the Little Woods."

At that moment, Shien was carrying Lilith out of the corridor where the conference room was located, completely unaware of how important the conversation inside was to him.

As he walked, he finally had the chance to ask Lilith all sorts of questions.

"Did you end up in the Poison Demon Territory when the passage collapsed?"

"And then you fought that Poison Demon?"

"I heard you fought for an entire day and night. Are you okay?"

"If anyone bullied you, remember to tell me. Dad—pfft, big brother will avenge you."

Shien fired off one question after another.

Yet Lilith was not annoyed in the slightest. She even looked delighted. Though all she replied with were things like, "Mm-hm, mm-hm, mm-hm," Shien could still read her answers from the little goddess's eyes and expressions.

"So you really were poisoned while fighting that Poison Demon, and it took you several days to use your Authority to wear away the poison in your body?"

"Mm-hm!"

"You're all right now, though?"

"Mm-hm!"

"That's good."

"Hehe."

Seeing Lilith's increasingly happy expression, Shien sighed in relief, yet could not help feeling emotional as well.

"That Poison Demon's venom really is dangerous. Even Lilith couldn't avoid being poisoned, and it took her several days to neutralize it. If she used that ability to poison me, even with the double protection of the Holy Sword and Blessing, I might not come out unscathed."

As expected of a true Transcendent Class existence. As expected of a Demon who could firmly suppress even the combined efforts of the Goddess of Life and the Goddess of Nature.

"If I want to truly stand on equal footing with them, I still have a long way to go."

Shien sighed.

But after sighing, he felt his collar being tugged. He paused, then lowered