The Max Level Hero Strikes Back!

Before being handed over to Davey and returning to middle earth, the zenoen Parthenon received a farewell from the goddess.

[My goddess, I cannot accept this.]

It found it somewhat puzzling that just being taken into the Goddess’s embrace had been enough to ease the obsessive rage and resentment it had.

Now, in the midst of all that...

[Are you telling me to betray my own people? How could you give such a cruel command?!]

Its protest and frustration were justified.

Yet, the goddess shook her head. Then, she slowly raised her tablet. Unlike the goddess Parthenon had known, her gestures and tone carried a vivid intensity.

[I want to make them apostles of the divine.]

They had gone mad from being abandoned for so long, but there was one thing that could never be overlooked. The reason for their madness was their endless yearning for the goddess.

[Then, if we call them back…]

[Their souls have been too corrupted, along with their bodies. With my current power, I can’t fully turn them into apostles.]

The goddess was omnipotent, but she was also in a state of rest. The noble being standing before Parthenon was merely the avatar of the goddess during this resting phase.

The divinity called the Saint of Tionis was a being she had gone into the past to summon.

[Goddess…]

[I'm sorry. I should’ve purified you much earlier…]

Parthenon felt tears well up at her apology. However, at the same time, it understood. The goddess hadn’t simply abandoned them all this time.

[Goddess… have you been waiting all this time?]

[There is a future I must see,...