"Have you already been to the Divine Realm?"
Shien's tone finally became somewhat impatient.
Roxie immediately gave a wry smile and nodded.
"Just as I said last time, I used my connections to visit the Divine Realm and met the Goddess of Fate."
As Roxie spoke, however, her expression did not look very good.
Seeing Roxie like this, Shien could not help but grow concerned.
"What is it?" Shien asked. "Did something happen?"
"No." Roxie shook her head. "It would be more accurate to say the exact opposite."
"The exact opposite?" Shien paused slightly, asking in confusion, "What do you mean?"
"Exactly what it sounds like." Roxie set down the dessert in her hand, looked straight at Shien, and said, "Nothing happened in the Divine Realm. It was as peaceful and tranquil as ever, which is rather unbelievable."
Why was that?
The reason was simple.
"Logically speaking, the Hero Summon ritual being reactivated should have been an enormous event. Even if the news had been suppressed and never reached the Human Realm or Demon Realm, there could not possibly have been no abnormalities whatsoever in the Divine Realm." Roxie said, "Yet I discovered that neither the higher gods nor the lower gods seemed to know the ritual had been reactivated or that a Hero had been summoned. That surprised me."
"Is that so?" Shien said, not entirely understanding. "Maybe the ritual was reactivated in secret?"
"That is unlikely." Roxie denied it. "The Hero Summon is a large-scale ritual that spans worlds. Even a Goddess cannot bear the magical power needed to activate it, so the ritual draws its power directly from the world itself, using the magic in the atmosphere and the earth. Once it is used, it is bound to cause a massive disturbance. Activating it secretly is basically