This wasn't an amount of effort a normal person could achieve—even a hero wouldn't have this kind of stamina.
Lysidadai stared at him blankly. Suddenly, Han Yu's gaze shifted to her. He stood up and walked over, extending a hand in what seemed like a "wall slam" move.
Seeing Han Yu so close, Lysidadai's face flushed with a hint of shyness. She thought he was going to do something.
"Han Yu… why are you staring at me like that…"
The next moment, Han Yu twisted the doorknob behind her and kicked her out.
"You're disturbing me."
The door closed. Kicked out once again, Lysidadai couldn't help but laugh angrily.
"Hey! I'm still a goddess! Even if you're not madly in love with me, treating me like this—how is that acceptable?!"
Inside the room, Han Yu rolled his eyes. Goddess? Clearly not. More like a goddess-nerve. Besides being pretty, the only battle help she might provide would be opening a portal to escape.
…
Learning from past experience, this time Lysidadai didn't rush to find Han Yu. She seemed to have understood his mindset a little, acting with an unusual caution.
"Forget it. If you don't want to pay attention to me, I'll just check myself. Luckily, I have this crystal that can see the Lower Realm—I'll just take a look at the situation below."
Lysidadai retrieved a crystal hanging on a tripod from a corner of the room. Chanting a spell before it, she said:
"Crystal that sees through the three thousand worlds, reveal any approaching danger."
As soon as the words fell, the crystal emitted a faint glow. When the light faded, the scene that appeared made Lysidadai's skin crawl.
It was the small town they were supposed to go to. Kaios had already arrived, standing on two people's backs, his greatsword pressed against someone's neck. As if sensing Lysidadai's gaze, he looked up in the exact direction of her view.
"Hero and Goddess, you're watching, right? If you don't come out soon, everyone in this town will die. From now on, I'll kill one every ten minutes. You better hurry."
"That sick pervert!"
Seeing this, Lysidadai was furious. She grabbed the crystal and rushed to Han Yu's room. As before, she didn't knock and barged in. Han Yu was still doing push-ups on the floor—at an almost unbelievable speed.
"Why didn't you knock this time?" Han Yu asked, a hint of displeasure in his tone.
"Emergency! The town we were heading to—Kaios is preparing a massacre! We have to leave now!" Lysidadai said anxiously.
"Has he started killing?" Han Yu asked.
"Ah?"
"I asked if he's started killing?"
"No, not yet. She said one person every ten minutes," Lysidadai replied.
Han Yu paused, thinking. "Time flows differently in the divine realm, right?"
In most divine realms, "one day in heaven equals one year on earth." Han Yu asked to see if this applied here—if it didn't, he would leave immediately. If it did, there was no rush.
"Uh, yes, it's different. Time here flows at one percent of the Lower Realm's. Ten minutes on earth equals sixteen hours here," Lysidadai answered.
"Hmm… sixteen hours, that's enough."
Han Yu nodded and continued his exercise.
"Why are you so calm? Those are lives! We should be there already!" Lysidadai said urgently.
"Why rush? For you, it's just a Lower Realm, a mission. If I die, you've simply failed a mission. But for that world? That world will be destroyed!"
"This isn't a game. Without proper preparation, rushing out ends in death."
Han Yu's voice was extremely cold, but undeniably true.
Lysidadai felt he had a point. Yet, for the pride of a self-important goddess, she forced herself to speak.
"But those are lives! A normal hero would have gone already."
Hearing this, Han Yu stopped his exercise and stood up. Already taller than her, he slightly raised his head, and an unprecedented sense of pressure radiated from him.
"Do you think this is a game? If a normal hero went, what would happen? Gaia Brand never lacked heroes—what changed?"
"Perhaps their world was destroyed by a Demon Lord. You'd feel sad for a little while, then happily start a new mission. With your so-called 'saving people' mindset, you joyfully save the next world. It's just a game between you goddesses. It doesn't really harm you—at most, your achievements stagnate."
"This is war. Not a child's game!"
Han Yu's words silenced Lysidadai. She couldn't say a word. Indeed, the essence of a goddess is this: if a mission fails, the hero returns to their world, the goddess returns to the divine realm, but the saved world? It is annihilated.
The hero is unchanged. The goddess merely fails a mission. The people of that world? They are killed, relentlessly, with no chance of reprieve.
"This is ridiculous… You're just being cautious because you're afraid. You're a coward. You should never have been summoned. No matter how strong, you're the worst hero!" Lysidadai shouted angrily.
Han Yu didn't even want to respond. She was the type of reckless, hotheaded cannon fodder who charged in blindly, unable to discern right from wrong.
Luckily, she was the goddess summoning the hero. If she were the summoned hero, facing Kaios before, she might have stubbornly tried to fight him—and ended up failing miserably.
"Alright. I'm ready. At my current level, I should be able to handle her."
Han Yu sprang to his feet, feeling the power surging through him. He clenched his fists, savoring the strength within.
Gaia Brand's people—whether alive or dead—didn't concern him. If the divine realm truly had a conscience, they wouldn't have summoned this idiot: a goddess who panicked constantly and contributed nothing in battle. Han Yu calmly chose to focus on completing his mission.
At that moment, a voice sounded in Han Yu's mind—the General Store System.
"Branch mission completed: [Ready to Depart]. Reward: 100 upgrade points!"
Hearing this, Han Yu's eyes lit up slightly. A branch mission had yielded so many upgrade points—his prior caution had truly paid off.
"I'll have to be even more careful from now on. This mission's rewards are too rich. I absolutely cannot miss them!"
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