Who was the enemy the Hero needed to defeat?
Surely even the most ordinary commoner—or even a child under ten—could answer that question.
—"The Demon King."
The enemy the Hero needed to defeat was the Demon King.
Not the demons, nor the demonoids, but the Demon King herself.
Because even all the demons and demonoids in the world combined could not compare to the threat posed by a single Demon King.
The God Race was helpless against her.
Even the Supreme God could do nothing to her.
She was the true strongest being in the world, a fact that had remained unchanged from ancient times to the present and would remain unchanged for all eternity.
It was precisely to defeat her that the Supreme God created the grand secret rite known as the Hero Summon. This was something everyone knew.
Of course, the world did not know that Heroes themselves had likewise come into being through the Supreme God's miracle.
To fulfill the concept of the "Hero," and to cultivate the Demon King's natural enemy—a being capable of defeating the Demon King—the Supreme God created countless Another Worlds, using them as soil to nurture lives called Heroes.
Thus, everything about a Hero—their birth, existence, and summoning—served a single purpose.
That was to defeat the Demon King.
Now that Shien had said such a thing, what would everyone think?
"Are you saying you were summoned solely to defeat the Demon King?"
Nats spoke in a low voice.
"How absurd!" Geura said with a snort. "The Demon King has already been defeated!"
Yes.
The Demon King had already been defeated.
Yet Shien claimed he had been summoned in order to defeat the Demon King?
What else could that be but absurd?
Not only Nats, Geura, and the others who had chosen to