"Roar-!"
A shrill roar tinged with cruelty suddenly rang out beside Roland's ears.
He whipped his head around, but apart from Yukari Yakumo's somewhat bashful face beside him, there was no one else.
Ever since he had entered the depths of the universe, the Star Cup had loaded the universe much faster, and during that process, this sound had begun to surface intermittently.
This was no illusion, but a fleeting warning from Roland's spiritual intuition after he had connected to the Dragon God's Akashic Records.
The closer the Angel of the Heaven of Heavens came, the clearer the voice haunting his ears became.
"...Dragon God."
"I can no longer estimate the precise timing, but one thing is certain: it is very close now."
The Dragon God supplied the information.
While Roland devoted all his mental energy to constructing the world, it served as something of a messenger.
It had no complaints about this. The will of a world also had its own areas of focus. Though it possessed a physical body and governed creation and destruction, it clearly could not compare to the Star Cup in versatility.
To accomplish the same thing, it first had to manifest, marshal its power, and only then achieve the result.
And depending on its objective-for instance, if destruction was intended to open up a continent and lay the foundations for nurturing new life afterward-it would employ different omens and methods along the way.
Compared to universes without wills that could only maintain balance subconsciously, or universes that had developed wills but lacked sufficient manifestations of power and could only seek Executors to help regulate them, the Dragon God was undeniably powerful.
Yet as it watched the simulated universe materialize directly in the Star Cup's radiance, spreading according to Roland's thoughts without any need to