Then.
Hermes silently bestowed the [heaven rewards diligence] talent upon this wisp of Cosmic Root...
At once.
Every time Hermes thought, every time he researched, even when he did nothing at all...
Countless living beings in Blue Star and Kikyo's world helped Hermes cultivate diligently!
The embryonic form of the Cosmic Root continued to improve, incredibly slowly yet irresistibly, under these circumstances.
One day, when Hermes completely finished this Cosmic Root and scattered it across the endless multiverse, making it an indispensable part of the Heavens and Myriad Worlds, as natural as the rising sun and setting moon...
Perhaps he could then be called eternally unfettered throughout infinite time and space?
Of course, that was very, very difficult, and unimaginably far away from Hermes.
He had not even achieved this with his own Honkai Star Rail Great Universe.
But this was the true beginning of Hermes's Dao Path!
Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "Able to become an Aeon at any time? Damn! How long has it even been?!"
Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "Hermes! Su Mo!! I might as well call you Su Aotian! Is the Genius Club really this absurd?"
Or perhaps contact with the Heavens and Myriad Worlds had triggered some kind of chemical reaction in this genius?
When the great roc rose with the wind in a single day—this was exactly what that meant!
Pioneering Wisdom: "Actually, ascending to godhood was not part of my short-term plans. This time was merely an accident."
Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "An accident? Come to think of it, Hermes, which Path did you ascend through?"
Multi-Fandom Great Female Protagonist: "It should be Trailblaze, right? Akivili is already gone, after all. Don't tell me you went and elbowed Lord of Wisdom, taking over Iron Tomb's job?"
Pioneering Wisdom: "No, it was Beauty!"
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