"As for my name..."
"You may call me the embodiment of goodness, friendship, justice, hope, and beauty!"
"I have appeared because I sensed living beings calling out to me~"
"You are lost, struggling, confused, helpless, despairing..."
"My friends, do not despair!"
"I come bearing a way out of your desperate plight!"
"Turn your hearts toward the light, and the light will come to you!"
"Hold on, my friends. I... have arrived!"
Wayne could not have mistaken him.
The being who had appeared in his mind through the [Godkin Ranking] was his teacher, An Kai!
Even if this being looked so righteous...
Even if this being was bathed in golden light.
None of that could stop Wayne from recognizing his teacher.
After all, who besides his teacher would describe himself like that?
The embodiment of goodness, friendship, justice, hope, and beauty...
Did Teacher come up with this on the spot, or is this what he really thinks?
Confusion surfaced on Wayne's face.
He still remembered the lessons his teacher had always drilled into him...
"Wayne! We're bandits!"
"As a bandit, why are you trying to reason with these ants?!"
"All this dithering! Do you even look like a bandit anymore?!"
Uncomfortable!
That was the first impression the Long-Lived Species Grand Lord and every being in the Abyss had upon seeing the being bathed in golden light.
The being who had appeared through the [Godkin Ranking] spouted nothing but righteousness and morality. Even an idiot could tell that his approach was incompatible with how the Abyssal Beings operated.
The mysterious powerhouse on the [Godkin Ranking], with his formidable strength and extraordinary talent, was actually such an upright person.
That was hardly good news for the Abyss!
The Long-Lived Species Grand Lord was not alone in thinking this. Hade, the Grand