"Was that child Will Auceptin?" Aaron asked the question he cared about most, the one he most wanted confirmed.
"Yes." Alice blinked her eyes.
That answer, which was practically nonsense, made Aaron fall silent for a moment. He reorganized his words and asked, "How did he do it?"
"It should be 'He.'" Alice corrected him.
"'He'?" Aaron repeated doubtfully.
"Let me introduce this world to you properly first," Alice said with a smile after finishing the last sip of orange juice and setting down her cup. "First of all, gods truly exist in this world."
For a moment, Aaron felt as though his heartbeat and breathing had both stopped. Everything around him seemed very far away, yet also very close.
To make sure he had truly heard those words rather than imagined them or experienced hallucinations, he repeated, "Gods truly exist?"
Alice looked at him in confusion. "Aren't you a believer of the Goddess?"
"I..." Aaron opened his mouth, but did not know how to explain.
"So you merely sought something to place your faith in. You merely agreed with the Goddess's doctrines. You did not truly hope that gods existed?" Alice looked at him thoughtfully.
After remaining silent for a while, Aaron asked, "If gods truly exist, then mysticism..."
"Otherwise, why did you think Will Auceptin ran into your wife's belly?" Alice raised an eyebrow.
Aaron opened his mouth, then closed it again. After thinking for a while, he finally asked, "He—no, He is also a god?"
"Hmm..." Alice frowned as she looked at him. "Have you heard of Beyonders?"
"Beyonders?" Aaron's expression answered the question.
"All right, you haven't." Alice sighed. "Humans can become Beyonders by drinking Potions. From Sequence 9 to Sequence 1, and above Sequence 1 are True Gods."
Aaron nodded thoughtfully. Before he could ask