"Hey."
Holding the few books from the Divine Realm in his hands, Shien asked Roxie.
"Is it really impossible for Nien to be the Supreme God?"
Shien really wanted to get to the bottom of that question.
"If Nien is the Supreme God, then wouldn't every condition surrounding my summoning stop being a mystery?"
That was what Shien believed.
"Indeed. If there is another way to activate the ritual besides the three methods mentioned openly, then it could only have been done by the Supreme God herself."
Roxie naturally understood what Shien meant.
If it was the Supreme God, activating the Hero Summon ritual alone would be effortless.
After all, the ritual itself had been created by the Supreme God and sealed at the far end of the Divine Realm. Not only was the Supreme God the only one who could enter the barrier, but she could likely fulfill the ritual's mana requirements all by herself.
Since the Hero Summon ritual was activated by borrowing the world's own mana, how could the being who created the world possibly fail to meet the conditions for using it?
Therefore, if there truly was a fourth way to summon a Hero, it had to be the Supreme God personally carrying out the summoning.
And if the Supreme God herself had performed the summoning, the ritual would not need to borrow the world's mana, so it would not have caused such a huge commotion.
With that in mind, as long as Nien was the Supreme God, every circumstance surrounding Shien's summoning would make sense.
But...
"Leaving aside the discrepancy between the Goddess Nien you mentioned and the Supreme God of legend, what would have been the motive behind the summoning itself?"
Roxie raised the most fundamental question.
"Like I said before, Supreme God Omnis