Although there was no unified transformation like before, it still revealed the myriad forms of life.
This time, the gods were already prepared.
Hestia first nervously glanced around, and when she found that her Bell was nowhere to be seen, she immediately let out a sigh of relief. Then she followed Loki and continued looking for a familiar adventurer to question.
She was a female adventurer.
She looked petite and adorable, but her eyes were now vacant and brimming with tears. She looked as though she had lost something extraordinarily important.
"All right, all right. It's all over now." Loki reached out and lightly patted the adventurer on the shoulder. "What happened?"
"Nothing happened." The adventurer shook her head and bit her lip. "It's just that...I seem to have given up on catching up with my deceased lover."
Only after hearing her explanation did Hestia, Loki, and the other goddesses learn what this stage contained.
An endless grassland, and the most important existence, forever beyond their reach.
There, adventurers would feel neither hunger nor the slightest physical fatigue. Even time itself seemed to become incredibly long.
At the beginning, the vast majority of adventurers were all doing the same thing.
--Chasing the dream before their eyes.
Perhaps it was a deceased family member, perhaps the most important person in their lives, or perhaps even an abstract concept such as overwhelming power or endless treasure. All of these could awaken the adventurers' most passionate desires.
However, they soon realized something.
They simply couldn't catch up.
No matter how desperately they ran, the thing they longed for always remained at the furthest limit of their vision.
Even using magic to fly yielded the same result.
It was as if every time they drew a little closer, the longing at the edge of