Hero? Are You Worthy?
Chapter 553 - 393: I’m Sorry, I Deceived You! (2)

Chapter 553: Chapter 393: I’m Sorry, I Deceived You! (2)

Dazed!

Qin Chu was completely dazed.

Shaye was actually born from the heart of an Evil God, and it was very likely from the heart of the Strongest Evil God?

She became a Witch without inheriting Divine Authority and even became the most powerful among all witches... Qin Chu always knew that Shaye’s origins were extraordinary, but he had never imagined they would be so exaggerated.

The shock this news brought was comparable to the first time Qin Chu saw that gigantic heart.

For a moment, Qin Chu even felt his whole brain had lost the ability to think, just standing there dumbly, motionless, staring at the two Shaye’s enveloped in the black mist ahead.

After several seconds had passed, Qin Chu gradually calmed down.

Shaye had once mentioned that her consciousness was born in the darkness, in an incredibly vast area... The black cloud ahead, the cloud-shaped piece of flesh, although it looked sizable, definitely could not be described as infinitely vast.

Could it be that although it appeared small on the surface, the interior space was actually incredibly vast? Inside that cloud-shaped piece of flesh, could there even be another world?

Another point was that after Shaye opened her eyes, she saw a lush, verdant forest.

However, the location of the heart was a dimly lit Grand Canyon with hardly any vegetation. Qin Chu didn’t think that Zimmerman and the others had the ability to dig out that piece of heart and take it away.

Most importantly, judging from the remaining notch on the heart, it didn’t look like it was forcibly dug out by external forces but looked more like it fell off on its own.

Could it be that this piece of flesh separated from the Evil God Heart by itself, moving the not yet born Shaye to another place?

But what was the reason for doing so?

Additionally, if it weren’t for the huge reaction from the heart within Qin Chu’s body to this cloud-shaped piece of flesh, he would never have thought that it could be a part of a heart because the difference between the two was simply too great. It felt as if this part of the heart had been eroded by some external force.

But who could erode the heart of an Evil God, especially the once Strongest Evil God?

Even if already dead, that’s not something ordinary monstrosities could touch.

In Qin Chu’s view, unless it was a God of the same rank, no other beings had the ability to erode an Evil God Heart.

And on the Sky Dome Continent, the Gods fell a thousand years ago after the divine war.

The local deities, the Holy Light Goddess was imprisoned in the Void; out of the eight Evil Gods, the remaining seven were suppressing the Holy Light Goddess... The only one who could be considered truly surviving should be the Fate Goddess Moile.

Could it be the power of fate that eroded the heart of the Eighth Evil God?

The doubts lingering in his mind were hard to answer accurately; perhaps even Shaye herself was unaware, as she was just a life that had been nurtured within it. She was ignorant of the events before her birth into this world.

Then, Qin Chu’s thoughts suddenly turned bizarre—considering the Eighth Evil God caused the fall of the Gods a thousand years ago, and Shaye was born from the heart of the Eighth Evil God... Doesn’t that make the Eighth Evil God her father? Or mother?

To the Sky Dome Continent, wouldn’t Shaye be considered the daughter of an enemy?

Well, these things had nothing to do with Qin Chu; what the Sky Dome Continent would become was beyond Qin Chu’s concern.

But one thing Qin Chu figured out.

He had once asked Little Shaye if she had sensed any beings in the Void before, and Little Shaye said no because there was always a voice in her mind warning her not to pry into the Void.

Because she carried the bloodline of the Eighth Evil God within her, and although it could be said the Eighth Evil God was beaten to death by the other Gods, it could also be said that she was betrayed and killed by the other Evil Gods. Essentially, they were sworn enemies.

If Shaye had garnered attention from those seven hideous fellows in the Void before she grew up, it would have been extremely dangerous, even fatal.

Not prying into the Void could be said to be a self-protection mechanism.

Qin Chu’s gaze shifted back to the two Shaye’s; clothes were already being knitted up to the chest area on Little Shaye, while on Great Shaye, it was just beginning.

His fingers rested on his chin; due to Time Retrospection, one Shaye turned into two, and the Eighth Evil God inexplicably gained a daughter. Quite the windfall.

Next to him, Nadia’s expression was somewhat anxious.

As the black strands of thread gathered on the two Shaye’s, the deep forbidden area gradually returned to normal, but no matter how Nadia tried to search, she could not see the figures of the twelve sages.

She had grown up under the care of these twelve sages, and her feelings for them were very profound; to Nadia, they were her fathers, her grandfathers...

Even with Nadia’s calm temperament, she was somewhat unable to maintain composure at this time.

Qin Chu also had a bad premonition. Zimmerman and the others stayed within the forbidden area, and they didn’t let Nadia know, which clearly meant they were here researching this chunk of flesh.

That was a power that even Augustus and Wozworth had difficulty withstanding; Qin Chu didn’t believe that Zimmerman and the others had the ability to resist the erosion.

If it was the worst-case scenario, then those twelve Great Sages have probably already... turned to ashes, or they might have already transformed into terrifying monsters without Nadia’s knowledge and left Wise Mountain.

Zimmerman sternly ordered Nadia not to approach the forbidden area, and this was very likely Zimmerman’s last shred of rationality, not wanting his adopted daughter to follow in his footsteps.

Seeing Nadia’s anxious look where tears were about to fall, Qin Chu wanted to comfort her but didn’t know how to start.

After hesitating for a moment, Qin Chu finally sighed, "Nadia..."

"Think of it this way, you didn’t see your masters, but you also didn’t see their bodies, right? That means there’s a good chance they’re still alive, just away for some reason."

With her lips pursed, Nadia’s face remained deathly pale.

She knew Qin Chu was just trying to comfort her, but under these circumstances, Nadia too hoped to think in a more positive direction.

As long as no bodies were seen, there was still hope.

"I’ll go inside and look for a bit," Nadia said softly.

Qin Chu nodded. After an unknown amount of time, Nadia returned, holding only a notebook in her hand, with no other findings.

Then Nadia handed the notebook to Qin Chu, "This is for you."

"For me?" Qin Chu was somewhat puzzled.

Nadia nodded, took a deep breath, seemingly trying hard to suppress the sadness in her heart: ’The master must have foreseen that something might happen to him and that I would disobey the prohibition and break in.’

"He left a note in the notebook, instructing me not to attempt to study that lump of flesh even if I did break into the forbidden area, and to hand the notebook over to you."

Qin Chu’s eyebrows lightly knitted together.

After a brief moment of hesitation, he finally took the notebook and opened to the first page:

"Dear Mr. Brave, I apologize, I have deceived you."

"I once told you that as long as you help restore peace to the Sky Dome Continent, I would send you back to your original world, but that was a lie."

"We can only summon heroes from a different world, but we do not have the power to send them back."

Looking at the contents recorded in the notebook, Qin Chu smiled wryly with a touch of resignation; he had known this for a long time now.

The contents that followed were all about Wise Mountain.

The history of Wise Mountain is even more extensive than that of the Oville Empire, having started off as just a gathering place for a group of powerful magicians to discuss magic at regular intervals.

Here, the mountain ranges reach into the clouds, offering a place where the study of magic is rarely disturbed by external forces.

In the end, it gradually evolved into a powerful magic organization, somewhat similar to the Mage Association, but with stricter control over quantity and strength, only allowing magicians at the level of Great Sages and above to participate.

During its most prosperous period, Wise Mountain had more than three hundred Great Sages. At that time, Wise Mountain could be said to be the strongest force on the entire Sky Dome Continent, with all the major churches having to lower their heads in its presence...

In fact, some members of Wise Mountain were actually archbishops or even the Pope of the major churches.

They maintained very close and friendly relationships with each other.

Wise Mountain held many ancient tomes passed down to the present, but Zimmerman clearly took all the most important content from among them and recorded it in this notebook.

The decline of Wise Mountain began a thousand years ago and seems inseparable from that ancient war among the gods.

The war among the gods a millennium ago allowed some malign forces to infiltrate the surface, causing fierce conflicts to break out among the many previously harmonious temples.

The temples of the Lord of Storms and the Fire God were destroyed during that war.

And Wise Mountain, due to a large number of Great Sages being important members of various churches, while maintaining quite good relations on Wise Mountain, and even frequently discussing magic day and night as close friends, had to face life and death once war broke out.

Due to the departure of these individuals, the power of Wise Mountain was significantly reduced overnight.

After the Holy Court and the Earth Mother Goddess Sect claimed the final victory, Wise Mountain also faced suppression from multiple sides, and its influence declined day by day.

By the time it was passed on to Zimmerman’s generation, only twelve people were left.

By the time it was passed to Nadia, there was only Nadia left; the so-called Wise Mountain had all but ceased to exist in all but name.

"Dear Mr. Brave, if you have managed to read this far, it means you have forgiven this old man’s deception, and for this, I am thankful."

Qin Chu exhaled a breath of air, slightly frustrated, the old sly fox.

"Now, what I am about to tell you is the most important, concerning secrets from a thousand years ago."

"A thousand years ago, the entire Sky Dome Continent experienced decades of blood rain... Yes, rain that fell from the sky like fresh blood."

Qin Chu’s eyes narrowed into slits; that must be the blood shed by the Gods as they fell, right?

"And then, demons... were born."

This can’t be!!!

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