I reign supreme in the Western fantasy world for eternity.

Flower-covered mountains, beneath a canopy of vines.

Amy was sitting cross-legged on a rock covered with dried flower petals, with a book with a pink peach blossom cover in front of her and several old books she had finished reading piled up beside her.

She's been stuck here for so long that she's practically memorized all these books, and is now reading a new one that's only recently come to her attention.

"Wait a minute... this name—"

The protagonist described in the book is named "Ji Tian"!

"When did you buy this book again?"

Books are still very expensive in the human kingdom, often costing several gold coins. Even Amy wouldn't buy literary works unrelated to magic for no reason; she should have remembered them by now.

Amy frowned, thought carefully for a while, and suddenly remembered that her good roommate had recommended this author's work to her in a letter and had attached the book with the letter.

Unfortunately, she was busy advancing to S-rank adventurer at the time, and the book was simply thrown into her storage ring to gather dust, and she forgot about it afterwards.

It wasn't until I was trapped in the Flower Sea Mountains and had nothing else to do that I took it out to look at it.

"No wonder I felt like I'd heard the name 'Ji Tian' somewhere before."

The details are very realistic, the writing is very delicate, and even some of the dialogues made her feel like she was there.

"...Isn't this really not documentary literature?"

Lila happened to be walking over with a bowl of water and curiously leaned closer to take a look:

"What is Brother Ji Tian's name?"

"That's right, but heroes are popular protagonists in these kinds of stories. As long as they're not used as villains, the church won't interfere. Besides, I don't believe in those stories about heroes being bathed in rainbow light and descending from the sky; those things are all lies..."

As they were talking, the ground beneath their feet suddenly trembled violently, and the distant vine-covered sky shook violently.

She subconsciously looked towards the source of the sound and saw a sudden opening appear deep within the Flower Sea Mountains. The crack was expanding at a visible speed, with a dazzling golden light emanating from its edges, like a giant eye slowly opening.

Gale-force winds spewed from the crack, accompanied by surging energy fluctuations.

The book in Amy's hand rustled in the wind. She instinctively gripped the spine of the book and looked up at the golden crack that was tearing the sky apart.

What should have been a terrifying scene instead evoked a feeling of being purified and saved.

It was illogical, unreasonable, and uncontrollable, as if the light itself could bring salvation.

Lila, who was standing next to her, was also affected; she dropped her water bowl without realizing it.

The same was true of Marcus Aurelius and his wife, who were further away. Despite facing such a horrifying scene, they felt no fear and had no thought of running away.

Everyone present was affected!

The rift in the void was completely torn open.

Golden light poured down from the crack, slowly descending as if it were a tangible substance.

A figure stood at the very front of the light screen, his white robes fluttering in the wind, his posture relaxed.

It seems to be... the hero?

Behind him followed a massive golden dragon, whose wings cast a shadow that covered the entire camp. Several blurry figures were on the dragon's back, peering down.

Ji Tian looked around and confirmed that there were no problems with the teleportation destination. He couldn't help but feel a mix of emotions.

"I never imagined that world-class spatial teleportation would be so easy after reaching the Nascent Soul stage."

"But I clearly saw you use your spiritual power to conjure an axe and then shatter the space of that world with brute force!"

It was Lilith who spoke.

She was lying at the junction of the dragon's neck and back, her long silver hair disheveled by the wind, yet she still had to ask questions.

Ji Tian remained unfazed: "The axe you saw was just an illusion; I was shattering the void."

"Then why is there such a big commotion when we returned here? There wasn't such a big commotion when we entered that world through the portal."

"..."

"Oh my, right, right?" Lilith leaned half her body out from the dragon's back, her voice light and cheerful, "You just used brute force to shatter space and insist it's teleportation."

Unexpectedly, Ji Tian found this quite agreeable, but he was still heartbroken that Lilith was unfamiliar with the prehistoric fantasy genre of web novels.

"I've been too lenient with you before, and I really need to teach you a lesson from now on."

Lilith shrank back and snuggled into Elena's arms behind her to complain:

"Waaah~ Elena, he was mean to me."

Elena was knocked back by the bump, and patted her head helplessly: "Alright, alright, stop fooling around."

The previous influence disappeared without her noticing. Amy looked up at the figure descending from the golden rift, listened to their unpretentious conversation, and then looked down at the book in her hand.

Amy recognized Ji Tian, ​​looked down at the description in the book, and then looked up at Ji Tian again.

After comparing the information several times, she finally couldn't help but ask, "You...you're not called Ji Tian, ​​are you?"

"……yes."

Amy glanced down at the pages again, then looked up: "So, do you know you've been written into the book?"

Lilith reacted first, leaping down and glancing at the cover; her purple eyes instantly lit up:

"Oh! I know that! This is..."

Ji Tian's eyelids began to twitch. He wished he could erase everyone's memories of these books, but his subconscious mind, now at the Nascent Soul stage, told him that these things would still be useful in the future.

So he teleported to Lilith's side, raised his hand to cover her mouth, and explained expressionlessly:

"It's a coincidence; it's normal for heroes to be the subject of various fan creations."

Amy asked casually, without any apparent reason, and had anticipated Ji Tian's answer: "Oh, is that so?"

"Waaah!" Lilith grabbed Ji Tian with both hands, protesting sternly. She then looked at Ophelia, pleading for help from the person involved. However, she never expected that her respected second senior sister would pretend to know nothing under Ji Tian's signal.

Bitter!

Lilith returned to the magical world after many months, and once again felt somewhat pathetic.

……

After a brief moment of joking around, Amy finally remembered to ask about her teammates' whereabouts, and her eyes lit up when she saw Dean getting off her back.

"Dean! You're alive! That's great!"

Amy looked behind him again, her gaze sweeping over the others on the dragon's back, then around the room, her smile slowly fading.

"...Where are Evan and Ian? Weren't they swallowed by that door with you? Why didn't they come back with you?"

Dean sighed and recounted everything he had seen and heard.

Although Amy had anticipated that her teammates would be in danger, her heart sank when she heard that their predicament was all Evan's scheme.

She had known Evan for quite some time; he was Amy's senior at the Royal Magic Academy and one of the first mentors who were willing to take her on missions after she entered the profession.

It's hard to imagine that he was the mastermind behind it all.

Amy turned her gaze to Ji Tian, ​​seeking one last confirmation.

"Evan was corrupted by the will of the World Tree. He willingly accepted that power, believing he could control it. As a result, his consciousness was devoured, and he became the World Tree's vessel. By the time I arrived, he was no longer human."

The hero's words are naturally not wrong, but they are still hard to accept.

Amy remained silent for a long time, so long that Mia quietly asked Little Flower what the other person's name was, wanting to go forward and comfort her, but Little Flower gently stopped her with her tail.