Chapter 230: "Hero Summoning Ritual"
In the sacred, solemn temple, silence descended, making all the clamor that had just taken place seem as though it had never existed, leaving the place utterly empty.
Nien watched the direction Shien had vanished in, stroking her lips as the blush on her face gradually faded away.
"Now that he's gone, you should come out too, shouldn't you?"
After a while, Nien quietly spoke those words.
What answered Nien was a helpless-sounding laugh.
"I thought you hadn't noticed me."
With those words, a graceful figure seemed to emerge from empty space, appearing before Nien.
To be honest, Nien was still quite surprised to see her.
"I never thought someone could actually enter this place." Nien looked at her and said, "If I remember correctly, your name is Laisha?"
"So you know me?" Laisha looked back at her, sounding both stunned and surprised. "I thought you wouldn't recognize me."
"How could I not?" Nien smiled. "Although I cannot leave this place, I can cross worlds to a certain extent and directly observe certain regions of other worlds. Naturally, I know of someone like you."
"What an honor." Though Laisha said that, there was no trace of feeling honored on her face. Instead, she stared at Nien. "In that case, you should know why I went through so much trouble to cross worlds and come here, right?"
"If I'm not mistaken," Nien said without changing expression, "you are confused about the Hero Summon, aren't you?"
"Yes." Laisha spoke bluntly. "I want to know why a Hero was suddenly summoned after a thousand years."
"So that was why you stayed by Shien's side, hiding in the shadows and waiting for an opportunity, until I called Shien here. Then, using the power of Space Magic, you slipped into