"What?"
Shien's startled cry rang out clearly across the platform in the Beastfolk military camp.
By then, everyone had gathered around Shien.
This included Nobu, who had come to Shien's side after reuniting with his wife and daughter and dealing with Note.
The enemy Beastfolk warriors led by Note, along with the Dwarves blacksmiths, had all been mercilessly captured by the Goddesses using Binding Magic. They were tossed aside in a heap like a mountain of bodies.
Taking advantage of the moment, Shien asked everyone what had happened inside the World's Crevice.
What he learned left him utterly stunned.
"You're saying that because of me, the World's Crevice was destroyed?"
Shien truly found it hard to believe what he had just heard.
Yet everyone looked at him with varying expressions of gravity, earnestness, excitement, reverence, and worship. Every last one of them nodded heavily.
"After three terrifying radiances rose from your body, the World's Crevice began to collapse."
Iris spoke with lingering fear.
"It was practically the end of the world. I thought we were definitely going to die this time."
Iris's words immediately won the agreement of everyone present.
Even the Goddesses looked shaken. If their nerves had been any weaker, they would surely have had nightmares that night.
"Then how did we survive?"
Shien was somewhat confused and could only keep asking.
But that question made everyone look at one another.
Clearly, nobody present knew why they had survived such a disaster and returned to the outside world safely.
Could it be that it had only looked dangerous, while anyone caught in the disaster would actually return to the present world?
Then why did the enemy warriors who had been swept into the collapse of the World's Crevice from the very beginning seem not to have returned?
No