The moment the voice sounded, Chen Xi came back to her senses and realized she was already sitting on a stone bench in the garden pavilion.
"Just as I expected of you. You easily resolved a worldline that almost no one could handle."
Ailin was still wearing that elegant, off-the-shoulder white dress.
"You two—oh, no..."
She turned to look at Gu Yu, who was sitting beside her, fidgeting uneasily. "There are three of you now."
Gu Yu gave in completely. "Are you the deity who oversees the God-Chosen Trial?"
Her words weren't entirely wrong. Whether Transcendents or Legends, anyone who reached Tier 6 had already stepped into the realm of the gods, let alone Ailin, who was clearly at the peak of Tier 6.
Ailin's manner was gentle, with none of the airs one might expect from a deity. "That's one way to put it."
Seeing Gu Yu fall silent, Ailin gazed at the two women before her and asked softly, "I imagine you've reached your own conclusions by now, haven't you?"
"Mm." Lin Yue nodded slowly, then voiced her final concern.
"Since you said those were all crumbling worldlines, what would Tyranny have done if you hadn't intervened?"
This was one of the doubts she and Chen Xi had found about the God-Chosen Trial.
"So that's what you're worried about." Ailin smiled faintly, then explained in detail. "In the worldline you dealt with, Tyranny was scratched by a Tier 4 Transcendent five minutes later, so it gave chase."
"Although the pursuit lasted only five seconds, it caused Tyranny's position to shift drastically, ultimately leading to the death of a promising Tier 3 Transcendent in the resulting accident."
"After that, another Legend rampage took place within the Golden Scale Empire."
"That Transcendent's death became the last straw for the Golden