After bidding Miss Lia good night, the mage waved her wand, and her body drifted toward the tower's outer wall. She walked along it toward her laboratory and bedroom at the top of the tower as if it were level ground.
Only after she had left did Nangong Sanba sigh, "Aha, I didn't expect Miss Lia to be an atheist."
"Strictly speaking, she's an irreligious person, or perhaps a disbeliever," Vivian corrected him seriously. "Atheists simply don't believe in the existence of gods, whereas Lia belongs to the group that doesn't have much respect for gods regardless of whether they exist or not. That's actually quite normal. Mages are naturally a group prone to indifference toward faith. After all, they study the laws of nature and the truths of the universe themselves, so they naturally don't want to establish a god to explain everything. That doesn't fit the mindset of a researcher."
"How dramatic," Hao Ren said as he looked up at the sky. The shattered heaven had already moved past the highest point of the night sky and was slowly sliding from east to west toward the other side of the heavens, gradually disappearing among the Sea of Stars. "The place where the divine kingdom fell, the place where the Creation Goddess's influence was strongest, has now given birth to a scholar like Lia. No wonder Raven 12345 once lamented that gods were just property managers. As long as the pipes didn't leak for two months straight, the residents could forget that their housing complex even had a property manager..."
Nangong May curled her lips and made no comment on Goddess Sister's striking metaphor. She looked up at the fragmented celestial remains together with Hao Ren and asked uncertainly, "Landlord, do you think those really are remnants of the