A sacred presence so intense it was hard to even look at directly.

As Reina watched the being appear, ripping through the frozen sky from afar, a thought suddenly crossed her mind.

“Just like her dad...”

She remembered something similar had happened in Nacha. Regardless, the important thing was that Willow had successfully descended.

Reina quietly fluttered her translucent wings and quickly flew up.

* * *

No one bothered explaining who she was. In fact, no explanation was necessary. It was something everyone knew just from seeing it.

The sheer might of a god! Willow, having fully descended into middle earth, was completely different from the goofy image she used to show on stream.

“Oh! God...”

“Neltarid... Lord Neltarid has descended!”

Of course, those who didn't know her true identity mistook her for Neltarid, as they were practically the only god they knew about.

“Oooh! Lord Neltarid has descended to save us!”

“My God!”

Whether Neltarid was a male or female god wasn't an important issue.

Even in such an absurd situation, with devout believers shedding tears and praying, the winter was still advancing.

Soon, a total eclipse occurred, and the air seemed to stand still for a moment.

Willow descended slowly with wings of light. She landed beside Agatha, who had been kneeling and staring up at her in a daze. She then slowly reached out and placed her hand on her head.

“Oh... My God!”

The reaction of someone who directly met a god was predictable.

Willow gave her a faint smile. Agatha was looking up at her with tears. After a while, Willow slowly raised her head.

The sun, completely covered as if in an eclipse, began to change.

An iridescent light gathered around the star’s ominous red rim. It soon turned blue, and the sky that had begun to freeze melted warmly to return to normalcy.

Fsss.

- Reporting! The tsunami... how... What in the world is happening...

At that moment, a voice rang out from the radio.

- The tsunami suddenly vanished! What in the... it’s hard to explain, but it was suddenly suppressed, and then it just disappeared!

It was a phenomenon absolutely impossible in terms of physical laws. A power had suppressed all the rampaging weather and reawakened the dormant parts.

Her harmony spread across all dimensions, including Earth. She had completely made the high-level authority of Goddess Freyja hers.

Eventually, the solar eclipse slowly faded away, and the sun began to shine on the world again. Those who saw it shouted that it was a miracle of their god, then immediately knelt and prayed.

A white feather drifted down from the sky.

Agatha looked up at Willow blankly. Without a word, she simply dispersed into light and feathers, disappearing on the spot.

However, there was a camera that had filmed the entire scene.

* * *

[Feels like it was all a dream.]

[Seriously though, I thought the world was actually going to end ;-;]

[Did you see the news? The whole area is restored, just like nothing ever happened.]

[Dead people aren't coming back, tho. Even a god isn't almighty.]

[It's a relief it was stopped at this point without further casualties, you crazy asshole. How can you take it like that???]

[Did I say anything wrong tho?]

[Seeing jerks like you, I’m SO sure god would REALLY want to protect us.]

[If they created us, they should take responsibility.]

[Honestly, seeing that kind of arrogance, humans deserve to be wiped out.]

[Nope, it just passed, so that's already off the table. No more apocalypse KEKW]

[Screenshotting this now. One of you is definitely going down for blasphemy lols]

[Haha, that won’t mean shit lols I don’t believe in a useless god gg]

[Bro do you know that the laws have changed? You’re gonna get a record for being a keyboard warrior and getting caught. I sent the screenshot to the church. Peace out lols]

[Go ahead and try loools]

[This dumbass lolols here goes another one Lord. By the way, you know blasphemy doesn't spare minors, right? I won't be seeing you around.]

[Nothing about that meets the criteria for identification you dumbass lols besides, if they arrest everyone who says this like this, how many people do you think will be left in the world?]

[This idiot still can’t read the room. What you spewed here is the evidence, and things like identification are totally useless when it comes to blasphemy. I already sent the report and got a reply that an investigation will start immediately. Kiss your ass goodbye.]

Of course, some people were like the ungrateful individual who basically asked for more after being saved.

However, most of the conversations revolved around the Goddess who descended upon Haeundae.

[First, thumbs up if you praise our Goddess Neltarid.]

[I thought the Church of Neltarid was about a dignified old grandpa, but it turned out to be a Goddess lols]

Of course, most people who watched the video of her descent suspected she might be Neltarid, since she was a god herself.

However.

[But I hate to say it... Is she really God Neltarid? All the statues of God Neltarid are like masculine.]

[A divine statue is just a rough guess of a god’s appearance, not their actual you know.]

[Gotta change the statue now loools]

[Maybe she’s Goddess Freyja?]

Then, one user posted a theory.

[As you all know, the god the Saint of Tionis serves is the main god, which is Goddess Freyja.]

[So you’re saying a god from another dimension came all the way to Earth? You’re hella stretching it.]

[Bro’s right. Why would a god from that world save us?]

Those who knew about the existence of Goddess Freyja wondered if Willow had been the goddess that they thought of.

However, it didn't get much traction.

Yet.

[Is my sight messed up, or is that... Willow?]

[Who’s Willow?]

[What, you don’t know Willow? Go binge-watch Evangeline’s recent stream right now.]

[I don't watch streams you delinquent. Just explain it quickly.]

[You lazy ass. Search for it yourself. If you type Willow, it comes up right away on Wiki.]

[It does look like Willow... no matter how I look at it. I was also at the scene back then. Honestly, the light made it hard to see her face clearly, so I kept my head bowed. But looking at it now, it does look like her.]

[Looking at it this way, it’s definitely her.]

Someone even posted two pictures side-by-side for comparison.

One was a picture of a beautiful girl with a deadpan expression answering questions that viewers made on a stream, and the other was the very image of a sacred god, so holy it almost made people instinctively kneel just by looking at it.

[The wings and stuff are a little different, but it seems like Willow.]

[Come to think of it, isn't her concept the Goddess of Harmony?]

[Bro nuff with the BS LOLS are you saying it wasn’t a concept?]

[Didn't someone say before that she might be a real goddess? Looking back now, their credibility’s insane af]

[Nah... if that goofy kid’s a goddess, then what am I, the Primordial God? LAWLS]

Of course, no one believed what was supposedly the truth.

That was because for humans, a god was a distant being that they couldn't casually define.

[Isn’t she Saint of Tionis’s daughter? Then how can she be a goddess, you dumbasses? Can a daughter be a higher being than her father?]

[If not that, then maybe she’s a Saintess a Goddess descended into? I mean that’s possible?]

[Whatever she is, I'm serving the Goddess starting today.]

This public opinion was the same not just in Korea but in every country where the video spread.

The world was in a craze about the black-haired goddess who had descended upon the world.

However, the actual subject of the conversation, Willow, was moving with a furious expression.

She didn’t care whether her fluttering winged dress was wrinkled or not.

Initially, because of how urgent the situation was, she put the primordial winter to sleep again.

Even with a high-level authority, she couldn't completely erase the primordial system, so she merely put it back to sleep, telling it everything was fine and to rest.

Right after that major problem was solved, she still had a big goal left.

“Neltarid... Where did that damn bastard hide?”

She was busy building up her rage to personally tear apart the damned god who'd locked her up.

Yet Neltarid, the target of her rage, had completely vanished without a trace after her descent.

“Did they run away?!”

“Calm down.”

“Do I look calm, Dad?! That bastard... that BASTARD!”

He closed his eyes and fell silent for a moment at his daughter’s actions.

He couldn’t help but feel surprised at how similar she was to him despite having no blood relation.

According to Neltarid’s plan, she had successfully fully awakened and stopped the primordial winter.

It was a domain even he couldn't touch, but she was a Goddess who could touch that domain.

That was the difference between them.

“Willow. You’re not feeling sick or anything, are you?”

“Huh? No. I feel amazing. Like I could fly right now. If I find that bastard Neltarid, I feel like I could tear them apart instantly.”

She said in a cheerful voice, but she seemed to have some feelings of disappointment.

“Dad... why didn’t you come looking for me?”

“I went. I just couldn't save you.”

“...”

She understood it in her head, but the feeling of disappointment in her heart didn't just go away.

“I’ll forgive you if you grant me one wish later.”

“Okay.”

“So. When can I go back down? It looks like it’s gotten harder to descend now.”

“I think I need to find that damn Neltarid before I can say anything too.”

He wondered if Neltarid had betrayed them again?

Previously, her descent into middle earth only had a massive impact, but now her levels had increased so much that descending again would most likely cause an immense disaster.

“Then how’d you descend?”

“I want to know too. How did I go down?”

Come to think of it, something about that felt strange. She clearly descended, solved all the dimensional problems, and then returned.

She had descended of her own will, not by possessing someone.

Willow and Davey, who were staring at each other blankly, fell into thought.

They now had a way to let her descend. Even if there wasn’t any ‘usual way,’ they figured there might be a special method for her to go down that they hadn't thought of.

“First, finding Neltarid is more important than descending. I know you’re busy. You should get going now.” She pushed his back. “I’ll think about the rest. Then, I’ll tell you my wish.”

“Okay. Don't overdo yourself. By the way, you did well. I'm proud of you.”

As he hugged her tightly, she, who had been grumbling, briefly pursed her lips and gave a faint, unseen smile. “Is that all?”

“I love you.”

“Me too.”

She watched him leave, looking somewhat wistful as she stared at his retreating back, and snapped her fingers.

Cats of all shapes and sizes began to gather around her.

“Find Neltarid.”

“Meowww.”

The cats each cried softly and quickly scattered.

They were the zenoen who had become her apostles.

Afterwards, she paused in thought, then headed back to Neltarid’s sanctuary.

They should’ve been there, but after that incident, they had vanished as if they had never been there to begin with.

“How can a god be absent? Are they crazy?”

She knew they must have many duties. She had no clue how this situation occurred.

Looking at the traces, Willow muttered, “Did this guy run away because they thought I might kill them?”

That thought suddenly crossed her mind, and she rushed to the Saint Sanctuary.

It was the Primordial God’s Sanctuary, different from hers, where the heroes and Goddess Freyja were.

“Oh? Is my niece here?” Woochi greeted her with a warm smile.

“Where’s the Goddess?”

“I don’t know. Where did she go? But why are you here?”

“I came to find Neltarid... that bastard. Where are they?”

Woochi chuckled, watching her grind her teeth. “Maybe they ran away? Afraid you’d catch them and kill them.”

She didn't know what to say to that.

“Did they really vanish?”

“Yes.”

At that, his expression turned serious. “That fucking bastard finally screwed up...”

“What? What do you mean?”

“Neltarid... Never mind. It's nothing.”

As Woochi rushed off somewhere, her frown deepened.

“Wait a minute! Uncle Woochi!”

“Gasp! Let go of me!”

She instantly rushed over, grabbed his hair, and asked, “What do you mean?! Explain right now!”

“Ah... Ah, it hurts, honey. For now, you can go back down, right? Do whatever you want.”

“It's not that easy! And Neltarid's more important right now!”

“I really don't know!”

Her expression grew even darker as she wrestled with Woochi.

He continued to scream and she kept yanking his hair.

The fact that she couldn't feel any trace of Neltarid felt strange.