"Boom!"
When God's Spear pierced Shien's forehead before he could even react, all Shien felt was a thunderous roar in his head as his consciousness gradually drifted away.
When Shien's consciousness finally settled again, he discovered that he was no longer in the temple.
He had arrived above a dazzling sea of flowers. He too seemed to have become some sort of illusory existence, floating lightly in midair like a ghost here.
Shien was very familiar with this feeling.
"A dream."
That was right. Shien had once again entered that dream where he revisited the distant history of long ago.
The difference was that this time, Shien was not alone.
"You should already know about the relationship between the First Generation Hero, the Goddess of Origin, and the Demon King of End, right?"
The Goddess holding God's Spear appeared soundlessly beside Shien. Like him, she seemed to have become an illusory existence, a weightless ghost.
"Back when this world had yet to give birth to any life besides the Goddess and the Demon King, when there were only three people in this world, you have already come to understand the tangled relationship among those three, haven't you?"
The Goddess looked at Shien as she confirmed this.
Shien silently nodded.
The relationship between the First Generation Hero and the Supreme God.
The relationship between the First Generation Hero and the Demon King.
The relationship between the Supreme God and the Demon King.
Shien had indeed already learned of the tangled relationship between those three.
"The Hero who had originally been summoned into this world as the Goddess's trump card against the Demon King not only became friends with the Goddess, who had never spoken to anyone other than herself, but also became friends with the Demon King, who likewise had never