After coming to her senses, Alice's body trembled slightly. Then, like Tsugikuni Yoriichi, she quickly knelt down and spoke with an expression of utmost reverence.
"Alice Louise Of Nafal, here to welcome the descent of the Honored God..."
Alice knew that if this Honored God had not intentionally forgiven her insolent behavior, she would likely have been burned to ashes the moment she peeked.
Why would a deity from creation myths descend into this world?!
Even though she wasn't instantly incinerated, her heart continued to wail in distress.
"Humans weave the Great Mystery of Myth, bestowing status upon innate holy spirits..."
"Then, they bind Them with myths, constructing a complex and interesting mythological system for Them..."
The gaze of that perfectly divine being fell upon Alice, and his murmuring voice seemed to carry a deep sense of interest.
With just a single glance, the divine being seemed to trace back through the girl's figure to the world behind her.
"Is it another type of Divine Dao?"
Hearing this, Buyer frowned slightly and then commented: "However, this Divine Dao system feels doubly restricted by both the world and myth. Attempting to transcend those shackles would be difficult beyond measure!"
"Haha, Buyer, if Herta saw this, she wouldn't be thinking about so-called restrictions or shackles."
Hermes said with a smile: "Those things restrict these gods, but what does that have to do with Herta herself?"
If it were him, it would actually be the same.
Weak power doesn't mean the knowledge contained within is useless to him. Absorbing the resources of ten thousand worlds to achieve his own growth was what he should be doing.
Listening to the conversation between the two high gods, Alice felt like something was wrong.
It seemed... things were completely different from what she had imagined.
"Alice, lift your head and look at me!"
Hermes looked at Princess Alice gently and spoke.
Alice did not hesitate for a moment and carefully raised her head.
And then.
Boom!
Like the sky collapsing, her previously powerful spiritual energy and her Spirit Vision—which could seemingly interpret everything in the world—saw something in this moment that nearly shattered her worldview into pieces.
How was this a god from myth?
On His body, there were absolutely no traces of the Great Mystery of Myth!
Or rather, this Great God was a walking myth Himself; He did not rely on the domain of myth at all to ascend to godhood.
He is the Trailblaze walking the path of wisdom, the Great One leading all spirits in the universe toward Pure Beauty; He is Hermes, graced with the Triple Greatness.
He is the Celestial Emperor who refined the Investiture of the Gods, canonized the gods, and created the Heavenly Court; all things in the universe exist according to His Order.
He once sat at the peak of three thousand worlds, enthroned in a place favored by the stars; He is the Primordial Great Heavenly Venerate who preached the Dao to the three thousand gods, becoming the source of ten thousand rules.
However.
Later, He opened the heavens with a single stroke; the world was born because of Him, and all things began from Him. He is the root of all things. Now, we can call Him—
Heavenly Principle!
Of course, if this name feels unfamiliar, He could also be called the Old Man in the Sky, God, the Heavenly Dao, the Lord, the common Father of all spirits on earth... As the Speaker of the erudite Greenwich Assembly, Princess Alice had read almost every mythological epic on Earth.
She knew very well what these titles meant.
It meant that almost every source of myth on Earth—those Great Ones with legends of creation—could be linked to Him!
The ancestor of the Eastern pantheon, Haotian the Jade Emperor who is synonymous with the Heavens; the Lord who dominates Western faith; even the source of the declining Olympian myths, Chaos—all of these could be connected to him.
Of course, having a connection didn't mean He truly held that identity.
But as an expert in mythology, how could Alice not know that for such a Great Creator, this small connection was actually enough?
As long as He descended into a world, as long as He willed it, under the Great Mystery of Myth, these identities would automatically become His!
After all, once a fake creation god encounters a Great One who truly has the experience of creation, how could they stand the comparison?
They would shatter at the slightest touch!
There were too many; there were far too many who could be linked to this person!
Princess Alice even saw that this Great One had countless times stepped through starlight, crossing world after world to descend upon the earth, saving worlds again and again; Deliverer was also one of His essences.
He had also descended into the mortal world, incarnating as a human, eventually walking step by step to the supreme height to establish an Imperial Court, manifesting as the Azure Emperor, Taihao!
However, the myth of this Great One was still being woven along with His footsteps.
His legend would pierce through the long river of time until the very end of history.
"This is actually true... everything actually happened for real in the past..."
Princess Alice stared blankly, her worldview finally completely shattered.
He was not great because of human myths.
Quite the opposite; to this Great One, humanity was insignificant, and so-called myths were completely beneath Him.
Is this the truth of the world?
Or is only He special?
No! It definitely couldn't be just Him, because the god beside Him named Buyer, although her achievements weren't as great as His, was also an indubitable, independent source of her own mythological system... In her shock, Alice unconsciously let a tear fall from the corner of her eye.
Simply because humanity no longer had any means to restrict such a Great One.
Then, those world-ending calamities mentioned in myths would surely descend upon the earth again one day... "Ugh..."
Ignoring Alice, who was lost in thought, Hermes turned his gaze toward Kochou Kanae, who had finally regained consciousness.
"Tsugikuni Yoriichi, Kochou Kanae!"
Tsugikuni Yoriichi, who was in a state of repentance, and Kochou Kanae, who had just woken from the silence of death—both of them at this moment heard the teachings of the God in the high heavens: "If you were given a second chance, could you deliver an answer that satisfies me?"
"What?!"
Tsugikuni Yoriichi looked up abruptly. Although he was currently in a soul state, hearing the divine oracle of the High God still made his heart feel like it was pounding.
If there could be a second chance... Yoriichi's blood began to boil.
And Kochou Kanae, who finally fully understood the situation, couldn't help but let tears flow from her eyes. "Shinobu, Kanao... my sisters..."
Finally, in this world of death, Kochou Kanae cast aside her worries about the racial conflict between humans and demons; her only thoughts were of her fragile younger sisters.
She could hardly imagine how despairing the two sisters she cared about most would be in a world where they had lost her.
Would they... still have the courage to live on?
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