Traveling through the second dimension, the joy system encourages me to laugh heartily!

His very existence is the most powerful interference with the original trajectory of fate!

Every action he takes, every choice he makes, is rewriting the future!

Let this butterfly, which stumbled upon this place, flap its wings freely! Let's see where the storm it eventually stirs up will lead this world...

……

Afterwards, the carriage smoothly entered the palace area and finally stopped in front of the luxurious palace where the victory celebration party was being held.

This victory celebration was even grander than the ceremony Chen Ming attended when he first came to the capital.

The palace was brightly lit inside and out, with dazzling magical lights twinkling and shimmering, and melodious court music drifting through the air. Servants bustled about carrying silver platters brimming with fine wine and delicacies, while the invited nobles, officials, generals, and their families, dressed in their finest attire, mostly wore genuine smiles on their faces.

Upon closer observation, Chen Ming noticed a subtle yet significant difference in the expressions of the participants this time compared to the last. In particular, the nobles from local fiefdoms and their relatives in the capital appeared much more cheerful and relaxed as they conversed with each other.

Simply put, these people were not truly at ease when they came to the ceremony last time—after all, from ancient times to the present, only the "heroes" chosen by the goddess have the ability to completely slay the undead demons.

This suddenly appearing "angel," though stronger than the hero, remains an unknown until the outcome is revealed.

Therefore, they had been worried: when the demons actually appeared in their territory or the city where their relatives lived, could this "angel" provide reliable protection like a true hero? Or could she only repel them but not eradicate them, leaving endless troubles in the future?

Only when the news spread that Chen Ming had successfully killed the Helix Demon Clan and that his achievement had been confirmed by Lady Yalangalula through the Holy Domain Statue did the huge weight in their hearts finally lift, and they came to attend the victory celebration banquet with smiles on their faces.

Chen Ming was keenly aware of the change in attitude among the nobles, which stemmed from their own self-interest, but he did not intend to blame or despise them for it.

In any case, his original intention in slaying the demons was not to gain the gratitude or loyalty of these nobles, but to save all living beings, to establish a glorious and righteous image in the hearts of the girls in his harem, and to fulfill the solemn promise he made to the female hero Epona beside him to "share the mission"...

While Chen Ming and Epona were eating and drinking at the celebration banquet, strengthening their relationship,

On the other side, in a distant place, beyond the mortal realm.

The goddess Venus, as always, resided within that wondrous palace composed entirely of flawless white. She calmly managed, monitored, and analyzed the countless streams of information flowing through the world beneath her feet.

When alone, Goddess Bai Ya has an indifferent expression, like a beautiful but lifeless doll.

A goddess possesses a thousand facets and personalities, and can instantly switch between expressions and postures to achieve her goals, depending on the person she is communicating with and the specific situation.

Conversely, when absolutely alone and without needing to face any "communication partner," He doesn't need expressions at all, nor does He expend any extra "emotional effort."

If a human were to witness the goddess in this state, they would likely have this horrifying thought: she's practically like an emotionless robot.

While this guess isn't entirely accurate, it's very close to the truth—in fact, the goddess in this anime isn't a real god, but rather a manifestation of rules set by the gods, a highly complex "management device" that exists to maintain the world's existence.

Under His rule, this world can automatically generate faith power continuously, which is very convenient.

When this "device" repeatedly predicts the future through its predictive module and discovers that no matter what internal resources are drawn from this world or what intervention methods are used, this world will eventually perish—it activates its contingency plan: introducing "variables" from outside the world that cannot be fully predicted by internal rules.

A cold voice echoed in the pure white space; it was the goddess giving her daily report.

"Confirmed progress of the commission. Confirmed deviation of the worldline from the original predicted collapse trajectory. Current worldline deviation: 5.623%. It is deduced that the main uncertainty stems from the otherworldly individual 'Chen Ming', designated 007. The primary cause is his successful defeat of the demonic units [Hippognet] and [Pig], as well as his alterations to the world and his interference with the hero Epona. The probability of the world's collapse has decreased from 99.87% to 55.34%!"

There is still a greater than 50% chance that the world will perish.

However, this is already a miraculous improvement, because it has successfully escaped that almost certain demise.

"The results are remarkable, and the feasibility of the plan has been initially verified..."

"It has been confirmed that the following extraterrestrials have died: No. 004 [Franforthaire], No. 005 [Dachigrolina], and No. 006 [Nagyakorudolf]. Only No. 007 [Chen Ming] and No. 008 [Lugotuhad] remain, and they have applied to continue introducing new extraterrestrials to increase the probability of success..."

After a brief silence, an even louder voice responded to the application:

"Application rejected. Higher-order existence not recognized."

According to the goddess's original optimal planning logic, rather than excessively investing limited "external intervention resources" in a single individual, constantly introducing new test subjects and increasing the total number of attempts, it is obviously a more reliable strategy in terms of probability.

It's like exam scores. It's relatively easy to go from zero to seventy, but to go from seventy to ninety or even one hundred, the effort and resources required will increase exponentially, and the marginal benefits will decrease sharply.

Therefore, based on purely rational calculations, the goddess wouldn't, and shouldn't, place all the "costs" on Chen Ming alone. Rather than trusting that one individual can definitely create a perfect miracle, it's better to use the same cost to "mass-produce" more reinforcements at the 70-point level, and then hope that one of them can successfully save the world.

In that case, from a mathematical expectation perspective, the overall probability of success would be higher.

However, this "efficient" application was rejected by a higher level of authority.

Without the slightest delay, the goddess Winus immediately began revising her course of action, restructuring her strategy in a manner that resembled "talking to herself":

"It has been confirmed that the previous action strategy of 'increasing the number of attempts' was inefficient and no longer meets the current optimal solution. The individual variable 'Chen Ming' has been re-evaluated... and it has been determined that there are 'special characteristics' that cannot be fully analyzed by the existing model."

"A list of existing achievements for 'Chen Ming,' number 007, is being submitted to higher beings... Based on the aforementioned achievements and undecipherable potential, a new proposal is put forward: terminate the introduction of new beings from another world, and concentrate all resources originally planned for summoning new individuals on individual 'Chen Ming.' Analysis suggests that this individual can significantly reduce the probability of world destruction..."

Even though the goddess's core, based on pure logic, still does not believe that her initial "cast a wide net" strategy was theoretically flawed.

However, the reality is that, apart from Chen Ming and Lugotuhad, all the otherworldly beings died for various reasons before they could exert any observable positive influence on the trajectory of the world's fate. The investment has been a complete failure…

A goddess will not cling to her own judgments.

Since the situation has developed beyond the initial estimated model, the only correct course of action is to acknowledge reality and immediately find a new solution that is more suitable for the current situation.

Based on the results of the reanalysis, the anomalous properties and high return rate exhibited by the individual named "Chen Ming" led the goddess to ultimately determine:

It's worth taking a huge gamble—rather than using the precious resources recovered from the deaths of people from other worlds to summon newcomers with uncertain prospects, the goddess would rather place all her bets on Chen Ming!

The proposal from the goddess, after being judged by higher beings, has finally been officially approved.

Then the goddess murmured again: "Permission granted. Ensure additional resources are allocated to 'Chen Ming' (ID 007)... Entrust the ultimate fate of the world to this individual."

This means that no new beings from another world will be introduced into this world. All hope and pressure are now completely focused on Chen Ming alone.

This was undoubtedly a mixed blessing for Chen Ming.

The good news is that he will receive more "support" from the goddess level than ever before. But the bad news is equally obvious: if he fails, there will be no "alternative plans," and the entire world will be utterly destroyed because of his failure.

"Simulating the most efficient use of additional resources...Calculation in progress...A total of 72,346 potential solutions have been generated...Probability ranking is underway...The 3,000 solutions with the highest probability of success have been selected..."

However, after calculating to a certain extent, the goddess's core logic spontaneously generated a new judgment: "...No. For the individual 'Chen Ming,' a simple probability value cannot serve as an absolute indicator. There are 'variables' that cannot be quantified..."

Therefore, the goddess made a decision that went beyond conventional calculations: she temporarily shelved those tens of thousands of cold, probability-based solutions and instead took a more "human" action—letting Chen Ming make his own demands!

"Requesting special intervention resources from a higher being... The request was approved... In order to make the most effective use of the resources, requesting to establish a communication channel with the present world... Target locked: contemporary Yalangalula."

When the goddess intervenes in the world, all her actions consume resources.

For example, conveying divine messages to all of humanity would be such a heavy burden that it would require a great deal of divine power.

However, if it only appears in one person's dream, the cost is extremely low.

Feeling the goddess's call, Alan Garula immediately fell into a deep sleep, in which the goddess Vinus solemnly appeared.

A perfectly timed, loving smile graced His face—the image a goddess projects is always precisely modeled after the deepest desires of the person she is communicating with. Facing a young girl who had believed in the divine since childhood, He knew exactly what expression He needed to adopt to maximize trust and obedience.

Then, the goddess, in an unquestionable divine tone, formally recognized Chen Ming's status as Her representative on Earth as a "divine messenger," and requested the Yalan Cult to fully assist his actions. In addition, She instructed Yalan Garula to inquire what kind of support Chen Ming needed...

Chapter 244 The Hidden Obsessive Woman

After explaining everything, the goddess decisively severed her dream connection with Alan Garula.

Then, the goddess slowly closed her eyes—not as a living being falling asleep, but as a state of minimum energy consumption in standby mode.

Everything that could be done has been done.

Therefore, before the next crucial "opportunity" arrives, He needs to enter a state of hibernation to minimize unnecessary consumption of divine power in preparation for future needs.

Just as the Yalan Cult is a tool used by the goddess to efficiently manage humanity, the White Goddess Winus herself is merely a tool used by a higher-level "being" to manage this world.

……

Meanwhile, Chen Ming and Aibona had finished eating and drinking and left the celebration banquet together in a carriage.

Epona pointed to a large stack of exquisitely crafted invitations, almost forming a small mountain, in the corner of the carriage, and asked:

"Um, Lord Chen Ming, should we throw these invitations away?"

At the victory banquet just now, the nobles of the capital came one after another in order of rank to offer their greetings and left their respective invitations.

Without exception, the invitations were all to Chen Ming to attend various parties, private tea parties, hunting parties, and other social events, earnestly hoping that he would do him the honor of attending.

The purpose of doing this is obvious: to take the opportunity to win over Chen Ming, this powerful and high-ranking "angel".

Some nobles even made veiled requests for "borrowing seed"—the meaning of which is exactly what the words suggest. In this world where magic determines individual potential, the more powerful a being is, the higher the probability that their offspring will possess exceptional magical talent, which is exactly what those nobles desperately desire.

"Throw them all away!"

Chen Ming didn't even glance at the pile of invitations, casually waving his hand, "I don't have that much free time to deal with these boring social games one by one..."

However, before he could finish speaking, he seemed to suddenly remember something and took out a luxurious invitation from his pocket. The invitation was made entirely of pure gold, as thin as a cicada's wing yet incredibly strong, with an intricate and elegant family crest inlaid in mithril, its understated yet luxurious luster flowing under the dim light of the carriage.

Chen Ming's lips curled into a wicked smile. "However... this invitation is worth attending. A joint invitation from Duke Lomarin and the princess... I didn't expect that even the princess, renowned throughout the kingdom for her beauty, would want to borrow a seed? I'll have to make time to see for myself..."

As far as Chen Ming knew, Duke Lomarin was one of the four dukes of the Kingdom of Yarban. His family had a long history and deep roots in the core of the kingdom's power, and its influence far exceeded that of ordinary nobles.

More importantly, this illustrious family has a little-known but close connection with an assassin family in the Tuhad territory.

The Tuhad family has been loyal to the monarchy for generations, their blades wielded only for the overall benefit of the country. However, to maintain the monarchy's "absolute transparency" and "impartiality," successive kings have never directly issued any assassination orders to the Tuhad. All those clandestine, unspoken "dirty jobs" were entrusted to the Tuhad family by the Duke of Lomarin, who acted as an intermediary.

This mechanism, which has been in operation for a century, has ingeniously constructed a firewall: even if Tuhard's actions fail and his identity is exposed, the royal family can immediately sever ties, claiming that it was the personal act of Duke Lomarin or his forces and had nothing to do with the royal family's will, thus preserving the royal family's reputation to the greatest extent possible.

Furthermore, the political repercussions, the readjustment of the power balance, and even the cover-up of intelligence following each assassination mission were all handled by Duke Lomarin and his forces. Like the shadowy hand of the royal family, they skillfully erased all traces, maintaining the facade of stability in the country…

Simply put, the relationship between the Duke of Lomarin and the royal family has long transcended that of ordinary monarch and subject; it is more like a symbiotic and mutually dependent secret alliance.

That is precisely why they jointly invited Chen Ming.

When Epona heard Chen Ming mention that even the noble princess had the intention of "borrowing a seed," she couldn't help but say:

"Huh? Then...can I do it too?"

The girl's tone carried a hint of urgency and bewilderment that she herself was unaware of.

Upon hearing this, Chen Ming turned to look at her with a hint of doubt: "What can I do?"

The words had barely left her lips when Epona instantly realized her mistake, her fair cheeks flushing crimson like ripe apples. The girl then understood just how bold and direct her words had been!

How could I possibly have such... such a shameless thought!

This is simply a desecration of the noble and great Lord Chen Ming!

A wave of intense shame overwhelmed her instantly.

"Um...no, it's nothing!"

The girl waved her hands frantically, her eyes darting around, and hurriedly tried to find a topic to cover up the incident:

“I…I mean, may I come with you to the appointment? I…I want to see the legendary Yarban Garden…”

Her voice grew softer and softer until it was almost a whisper.

Seeing the girl's adorable, flustered, and blushing face, Chen Ming couldn't help but smile and readily nodded: "Of course!"

He knew very well that today's meeting was most likely just to establish preliminary agreements and make contact.

Even if he agreed to the so-called "sperm donation" proposal on the spot, it was absolutely impossible for that high-ranking princess to immediately take any concrete steps with him—at least they would need to cultivate their relationship first, and then go through a period of preparation for pregnancy before officially proceeding...

Therefore, there is no problem in taking Epona along.

Moreover, Chen Ming himself was happy to spend more time with this innocent and lovely female warrior and, incidentally, increase his favorability towards her.

Therefore, instead of returning to the Hero's Castle, the two instructed the coachman to change course and head to the Duke of Lomarin's castle, located in the heart of the capital.

This castle is an architectural marvel of the Kingdom of Alban, its scale far surpassing any other building except the royal palace.

What is particularly noteworthy is the enormous courtyard inside, named after the country – the Yarban Gardens. The King himself has repeatedly described it in public as a "paradise" and declared it "one of the most beautiful places in the world."

This garden is extremely luxurious and meticulously crafted. The gardeners will collect the most beautiful seasonal flowers from all over the country and even from overseas at great expense, and have them arranged and designed by top art masters, aiming to maximize the visual beauty.

To accentuate these beautiful flowers, the garden spared no expense in using numerous precious art sculptures, fountains, and truly dazzling gems and crystals as embellishments, making it a beautiful scene built with money and art.

Even more extravagantly, in order to perfectly harmonize with the floral themes of different seasons, the interior decorations of the rooms inside the castle, corresponding to the garden scenery, including curtains, carpets, and even tableware, will be completely changed with the season.

Because of its exquisite beauty and luxury, only a handful of people in the entire kingdom are qualified to be invited into the Duke of Lomarin's castle.

The other party's choice to meet here speaks volumes—they attach great importance to this meeting and ensure that the content of the conversation is kept absolutely confidential and will not be spied on or eavesdropped on by any outsiders.

Upon entering the castle and stepping into the legendary Alban Gardens, Epona instantly forgot her words. Her beautiful eyes widened as she was completely awestruck by the stunning scenery before her, utterly captivated.

Despite being a hero with exceptional strength, the only improvement she received after awakening her talent was in her combat abilities.

When it comes to knowledge and experience of luxurious scenery, she is still quite lacking—after all, she was born the daughter of a minor nobleman in a remote region, and not even a favored one at that. Before becoming a hero, she rarely left her hometown, so naturally she didn't have much travel experience...

In contrast, Chen Ming remained calm. He had experienced the beauty of three worlds and had even traveled through the vast universe in his physical body, witnessing the birth and death of nebulae and the glory of stars.

While the meticulously crafted garden before him was undeniably beautiful and luxurious, it was far from surprising him.

"My angel, my hero, this way please."

An elegant and graceful maid stepped forward to lead the two of them.

Upon closer inspection, Chen Ming could see that this "maid" possessed an extraordinary air about her, and the materials used in her clothing were even more exquisite than those of many noble ladies.